Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1997Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 2nd August 1997What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 3rd August 1997Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 4th August 1997What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 5th August 1997Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 6th August 1997Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 7th August 1997In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 8th August 1997By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 9th August 1997How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 10th August 1997Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 11th August 1997What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 12th August 1997Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 13th August 1997What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 14th August 1997Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 15th August 1997What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 16th August 1997In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 17th August 1997Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 18th August 1997In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 19th August 1997What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 20th August 1997In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 21st August 1997Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 22nd August 1997Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 23rd August 1997Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 24th August 1997Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 25th August 1997In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 26th August 1997Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 27th August 1997Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 28th August 1997What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 29th August 1997Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 30th August 1997Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 31st August 1997Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?