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November 1991 5-a-day

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November 1991

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st November 1991What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  2. 2nd November 1991What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  3. 3rd November 1991Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  4. 4th November 1991What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  5. 5th November 1991Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  6. 6th November 1991Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  7. 7th November 1991In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  8. 8th November 1991By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  9. 9th November 1991What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  10. 10th November 1991What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  11. 11th November 1991What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  12. 12th November 1991Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  13. 13th November 1991What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  14. 14th November 1991In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  15. 15th November 1991Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  16. 16th November 1991When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  17. 17th November 1991Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  18. 18th November 1991What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  19. 19th November 1991What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  20. 20th November 1991What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  21. 21st November 1991Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  22. 22nd November 1991Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  23. 23rd November 1991Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  24. 24th November 1991Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  25. 25th November 1991Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  26. 26th November 1991How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  27. 27th November 1991Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  28. 28th November 1991What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  29. 29th November 1991What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  30. 30th November 1991Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.