Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2000 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2000, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2000In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 2nd January 2000Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 3rd January 2000When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 4th January 2000What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 5th January 2000What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 6th January 2000What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 7th January 2000What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 8th January 2000Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 9th January 2000What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 10th January 2000Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 11th January 2000Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 12th January 2000Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 13th January 2000How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 14th January 2000Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 15th January 2000In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 16th January 2000What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 17th January 2000Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 18th January 2000Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 19th January 2000What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 20th January 2000Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 21st January 2000What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 22nd January 2000Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 23rd January 2000Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 24th January 2000In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 25th January 2000What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 26th January 2000How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 27th January 2000Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 28th January 2000What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 29th January 2000On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 30th January 2000Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 31st January 2000Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?