Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2005Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 2nd October 2005What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 3rd October 2005In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 4th October 2005What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 5th October 2005In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 6th October 2005What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 7th October 2005In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 8th October 2005Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 9th October 2005What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 10th October 2005Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 11th October 2005Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 12th October 2005In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 13th October 2005Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 14th October 2005Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 15th October 2005In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 16th October 2005Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 17th October 2005Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 18th October 2005Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 19th October 2005What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 20th October 2005Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 21st October 2005What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 22nd October 2005What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 23rd October 2005In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 24th October 2005In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 25th October 2005What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 26th October 2005Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 27th October 2005What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 28th October 2005Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 29th October 2005On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 30th October 2005Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 31st October 2005Who were Elizabeth's parents?