Daily Practice · GCSE History
November 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in November 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in November 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1999What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 2nd November 1999Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 3rd November 1999What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 4th November 1999In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 5th November 1999Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 6th November 1999In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 7th November 1999Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 8th November 1999In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 9th November 1999Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 10th November 1999What was a Gauleiter?
- 11th November 1999What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 12th November 1999Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 13th November 1999In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 14th November 1999Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 15th November 1999On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 16th November 1999What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 17th November 1999Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 18th November 1999Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 19th November 1999Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 20th November 1999What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 21st November 1999Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 22nd November 1999What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 23rd November 1999What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 24th November 1999In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 25th November 1999In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 26th November 1999By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 27th November 1999Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 28th November 1999What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 29th November 1999Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 30th November 1999Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.