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November 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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November 1997

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 1997Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  2. 2nd November 1997Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  3. 3rd November 1997Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  4. 4th November 1997Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  5. 5th November 1997What was a Gauleiter?
  6. 6th November 1997What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  7. 7th November 1997How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  8. 8th November 1997Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  9. 9th November 1997What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  10. 10th November 1997On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  11. 11th November 1997What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  12. 12th November 1997Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  13. 13th November 1997What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  14. 14th November 1997In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  15. 15th November 1997What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  16. 16th November 1997In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  17. 17th November 1997What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  18. 18th November 1997In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  19. 19th November 1997Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  20. 20th November 1997In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  21. 21st November 1997By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  22. 22nd November 1997Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  23. 23rd November 1997In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  24. 24th November 1997Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  25. 25th November 1997Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  26. 26th November 1997What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  27. 27th November 1997Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  28. 28th November 1997Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  29. 29th November 1997Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  30. 30th November 1997Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.