Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1988What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 2nd October 1988In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 3rd October 1988What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 4th October 1988In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 5th October 1988In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 6th October 1988In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 7th October 1988Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 8th October 1988What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 9th October 1988How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 10th October 1988Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 11th October 1988In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 12th October 1988Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 13th October 1988What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 14th October 1988Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 15th October 1988Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 16th October 1988Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 17th October 1988Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 18th October 1988What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 19th October 1988Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 20th October 1988What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 21st October 1988What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 22nd October 1988In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 23rd October 1988What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 24th October 1988Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 25th October 1988Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 26th October 1988What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 27th October 1988Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 28th October 1988Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 29th October 1988In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 30th October 1988Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 31st October 1988What was the Privy Council?