Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1955Which just war criterion is concerned with civilians not being deliberately targeted in a war?
- 2nd December 1955Name one reason, other than justice, why religious believers might seek peace.
- 3rd December 1955According to a Humanist, outcomes-based view of punishment, what should justify a punishment?
- 4th December 1955Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
- 5th December 1955State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
- 6th December 1955Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
- 7th December 1955Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 8th December 1955On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
- 9th December 1955Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
- 10th December 1955State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
- 11th December 1955According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 12th December 1955What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
- 13th December 1955What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
- 14th December 1955Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
- 15th December 1955State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
- 16th December 1955Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
- 17th December 1955Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
- 18th December 1955Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
- 19th December 1955What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
- 20th December 1955Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
- 21st December 1955Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
- 22nd December 1955In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
- 23rd December 1955State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
- 24th December 1955What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
- 25th December 1955State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
- 26th December 1955Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
- 27th December 1955Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
- 28th December 1955Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
- 29th December 1955State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
- 30th December 1955Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 31st December 1955Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.