Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1986Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 2nd August 1986Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 3rd August 1986What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 4th August 1986In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 5th August 1986In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 6th August 1986What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 7th August 1986Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 8th August 1986What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 9th August 1986Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 10th August 1986When did Germany formally reunify?
- 11th August 1986What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 12th August 1986Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 13th August 1986What was the Privy Council?
- 14th August 1986What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 15th August 1986Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 16th August 1986Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 17th August 1986Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 18th August 1986What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 19th August 1986In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 20th August 1986What was a Gauleiter?
- 21st August 1986What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 22nd August 1986What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 23rd August 1986What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 24th August 1986What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 25th August 1986On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 26th August 1986What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 27th August 1986Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 28th August 1986Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 29th August 1986What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 30th August 1986What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 31st August 1986Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.