Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2008Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 2nd October 2008Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 3rd October 2008Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 4th October 2008Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 5th October 2008Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 6th October 2008What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 7th October 2008In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 8th October 2008What was a Gauleiter?
- 9th October 2008What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 10th October 2008Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 11th October 2008What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 12th October 2008Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 13th October 2008On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 14th October 2008What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 15th October 2008Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 16th October 2008What was the Privy Council?
- 17th October 2008What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 18th October 2008What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 19th October 2008Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 20th October 2008What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 21st October 2008What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 22nd October 2008In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 23rd October 2008In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 24th October 2008By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 25th October 2008What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 26th October 2008What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 27th October 2008What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 28th October 2008Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 29th October 2008What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 30th October 2008Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 31st October 2008Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?