Daily Practice · GCSE History
November 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1996Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 2nd November 1996What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 3rd November 1996Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 4th November 1996Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 5th November 1996What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 6th November 1996Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 7th November 1996What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 8th November 1996Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 9th November 1996Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 10th November 1996What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 11th November 1996Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 12th November 1996How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 13th November 1996Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 14th November 1996What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 15th November 1996Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 16th November 1996In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 17th November 1996Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 18th November 1996What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 19th November 1996In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 20th November 1996What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 21st November 1996In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 22nd November 1996What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 23rd November 1996In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 24th November 1996Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 25th November 1996In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 26th November 1996What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 27th November 1996Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 28th November 1996In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 29th November 1996Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 30th November 1996On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?