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May 1986

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  1. 1st May 1986Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  2. 2nd May 1986Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  3. 3rd May 1986Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  4. 4th May 1986Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  5. 5th May 1986What is Passchendaele also known as?
  6. 6th May 1986In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  7. 7th May 1986What was a Gauleiter?
  8. 8th May 1986What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  9. 9th May 1986Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  10. 10th May 1986What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  11. 11th May 1986Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  12. 12th May 1986On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  13. 13th May 1986What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  14. 14th May 1986Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  15. 15th May 1986What was the Privy Council?
  16. 16th May 1986What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  17. 17th May 1986What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  18. 18th May 1986Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  19. 19th May 1986What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  20. 20th May 1986What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  21. 21st May 1986In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  22. 22nd May 1986In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  23. 23rd May 1986By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  24. 24th May 1986What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  25. 25th May 1986What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  26. 26th May 1986What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  27. 27th May 1986Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  28. 28th May 1986What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  29. 29th May 1986Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  30. 30th May 1986Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  31. 31st May 1986What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?