Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1991Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 2nd December 1991What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 3rd December 1991Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 4th December 1991In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 5th December 1991Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 6th December 1991Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 7th December 1991What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 8th December 1991How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 9th December 1991How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 10th December 1991Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 11th December 1991What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 12th December 1991What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 13th December 1991Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 14th December 1991Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 15th December 1991What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 16th December 1991In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 17th December 1991What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 18th December 1991In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 19th December 1991What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 20th December 1991In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 21st December 1991Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 22nd December 1991What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 23rd December 1991Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 24th December 1991Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 25th December 1991In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 26th December 1991Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 27th December 1991Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 28th December 1991In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 29th December 1991Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 30th December 1991Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 31st December 1991Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?