Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1986In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 2nd October 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 3rd October 1986Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 4th October 1986What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 5th October 1986How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 6th October 1986How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 7th October 1986Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 8th October 1986What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 9th October 1986What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 10th October 1986Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 11th October 1986Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 12th October 1986What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 13th October 1986In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 14th October 1986What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 15th October 1986In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 16th October 1986What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 17th October 1986In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 18th October 1986Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 19th October 1986What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 20th October 1986Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 21st October 1986Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 22nd October 1986In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 23rd October 1986Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 24th October 1986Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 25th October 1986In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 26th October 1986Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 27th October 1986Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 28th October 1986Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 29th October 1986What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 30th October 1986Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 31st October 1986What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?