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April 1995 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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April 1995

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 April 1995Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  2. 2nd April 1995Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  3. 3rd April 1995What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  4. 4th April 1995In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  5. 5th April 1995What was a Gauleiter?
  6. 6th April 1995What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  7. 7th April 1995What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  8. 8th April 1995What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  9. 9th April 1995What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  10. 10th April 1995On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  11. 11th April 1995What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  12. 12th April 1995Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  13. 13th April 1995Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  14. 14th April 1995What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  15. 15th April 1995What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  16. 16th April 1995Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  17. 17th April 1995What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  18. 18th April 1995Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  19. 19th April 1995Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  20. 20th April 1995In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  21. 21st April 1995By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  22. 22nd April 1995What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  23. 23rd April 1995What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  24. 24th April 1995What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  25. 25th April 1995Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  26. 26th April 1995What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  27. 27th April 1995In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  28. 28th April 1995Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  29. 29th April 1995When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  30. 30th April 1995Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.