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November 1993 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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November 1993

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 1993On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  2. 2nd November 1993What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  3. 3rd November 1993In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  4. 4th November 1993Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  5. 5th November 1993When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  6. 6th November 1993What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  7. 7th November 1993What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  8. 8th November 1993What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  9. 9th November 1993What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  10. 10th November 1993Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  11. 11th November 1993In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  12. 12th November 1993By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  13. 13th November 1993Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  14. 14th November 1993Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  15. 15th November 1993How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  16. 16th November 1993Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  17. 17th November 1993What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  18. 18th November 1993What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  19. 19th November 1993Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  20. 20th November 1993Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  21. 21st November 1993Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  22. 22nd November 1993Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  23. 23rd November 1993What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  24. 24th November 1993Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  25. 25th November 1993Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  26. 26th November 1993Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  27. 27th November 1993Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  28. 28th November 1993How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  29. 29th November 1993Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  30. 30th November 1993What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?