Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1986What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 2nd July 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 3rd July 1986What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 4th July 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 5th July 1986Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 6th July 1986What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 7th July 1986Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 8th July 1986How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 9th July 1986Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 10th July 1986What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 11th July 1986Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 12th July 1986In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 13th July 1986Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 14th July 1986What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 15th July 1986In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 16th July 1986What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 17th July 1986In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 18th July 1986What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 19th July 1986In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 20th July 1986Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 21st July 1986In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 22nd July 1986What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 23rd July 1986Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 24th July 1986In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 25th July 1986Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 26th July 1986On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 27th July 1986Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 28th July 1986Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 29th July 1986Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 30th July 1986Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 31st July 1986In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?