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May 1988 5-a-day

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May 1988

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  1. 1st May 1988When did Germany formally reunify?
  2. 2nd May 1988What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  3. 3rd May 1988Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  4. 4th May 1988What was the Privy Council?
  5. 5th May 1988What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  6. 6th May 1988Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  7. 7th May 1988Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  8. 8th May 1988Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  9. 9th May 1988What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  10. 10th May 1988In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  11. 11th May 1988What was a Gauleiter?
  12. 12th May 1988What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  13. 13th May 1988What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  14. 14th May 1988What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  15. 15th May 1988What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  16. 16th May 1988On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  17. 17th May 1988What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  18. 18th May 1988Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  19. 19th May 1988Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  20. 20th May 1988What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  21. 21st May 1988What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  22. 22nd May 1988Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  23. 23rd May 1988What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  24. 24th May 1988Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  25. 25th May 1988Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  26. 26th May 1988In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  27. 27th May 1988By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  28. 28th May 1988What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  29. 29th May 1988What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  30. 30th May 1988What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  31. 31st May 1988Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.