Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1991Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 2nd October 1991Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 3rd October 1991In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 4th October 1991Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 5th October 1991Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 6th October 1991What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 7th October 1991In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 8th October 1991In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 9th October 1991What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 10th October 1991Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 11th October 1991What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 12th October 1991Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 13th October 1991When did Germany formally reunify?
- 14th October 1991What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 15th October 1991Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 16th October 1991What was the Privy Council?
- 17th October 1991What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 18th October 1991Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 19th October 1991Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 20th October 1991Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 21st October 1991What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 22nd October 1991In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 23rd October 1991What was a Gauleiter?
- 24th October 1991What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 25th October 1991What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 26th October 1991What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 27th October 1991What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 28th October 1991On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 29th October 1991What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 30th October 1991Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 31st October 1991Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?