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September 1991 5-a-day

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September 1991

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1991Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd September 1991Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd September 1991What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  4. 4th September 1991Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th September 1991What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  6. 6th September 1991Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th September 1991Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th September 1991What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  9. 9th September 1991Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  10. 10th September 1991How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th September 1991Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th September 1991What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th September 1991Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  14. 14th September 1991In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  15. 15th September 1991Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th September 1991What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th September 1991In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th September 1991What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  19. 19th September 1991In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th September 1991What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  21. 21st September 1991In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd September 1991Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd September 1991In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  24. 24th September 1991What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  25. 25th September 1991Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th September 1991In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th September 1991Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th September 1991On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  29. 29th September 1991Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  30. 30th September 1991Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.