Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2003 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2003, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2003Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 2nd October 2003What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 3rd October 2003Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 4th October 2003Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 5th October 2003What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 6th October 2003Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 7th October 2003How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 8th October 2003Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 9th October 2003What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 10th October 2003Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 11th October 2003In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 12th October 2003Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 13th October 2003What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 14th October 2003In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 15th October 2003What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 16th October 2003In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 17th October 2003What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 18th October 2003In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 19th October 2003Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 20th October 2003In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 21st October 2003What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 22nd October 2003Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 23rd October 2003In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 24th October 2003Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 25th October 2003On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 26th October 2003Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 27th October 2003Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 28th October 2003Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 29th October 2003Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 30th October 2003In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 31st October 2003Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.