Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2003 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2003, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2003Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd January 2003Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd January 2003Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 4th January 2003Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th January 2003Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 6th January 2003Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th January 2003Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th January 2003What was a Gauleiter?
- 9th January 2003What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 10th January 2003How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th January 2003Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th January 2003What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th January 2003On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 14th January 2003What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 15th January 2003Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th January 2003What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th January 2003In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th January 2003What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 19th January 2003In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th January 2003What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 21st January 2003In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd January 2003Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd January 2003In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 24th January 2003By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 25th January 2003Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th January 2003In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th January 2003Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th January 2003Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 29th January 2003What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 30th January 2003Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 31st January 2003Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?