Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

October 1959 5-a-day

Every sheet in October 1959

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 1959Which philosopher is associated with popularising the argument against speciesism?
  2. 2nd October 1959According to Exodus 3:2, what does Moses see that makes him turn aside to look?
  3. 3rd October 1959Which German theologian introduced the concept of 'the numinous' in his 1917 book The Idea of the Holy?
  4. 4th October 1959Which type of evil does the free will defence struggle most to explain?
  5. 5th October 1959Which just war criterion is concerned with civilians not being deliberately targeted in a war?
  6. 6th October 1959Name one reason, other than justice, why religious believers might seek peace.
  7. 7th October 1959According to a Humanist, outcomes-based view of punishment, what should justify a punishment?
  8. 8th October 1959Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
  9. 9th October 1959State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  10. 10th October 1959Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
  11. 11th October 1959Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  12. 12th October 1959On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  13. 13th October 1959Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  14. 14th October 1959State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  15. 15th October 1959According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  16. 16th October 1959What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  17. 17th October 1959What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  18. 18th October 1959Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  19. 19th October 1959State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  20. 20th October 1959Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  21. 21st October 1959Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  22. 22nd October 1959Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  23. 23rd October 1959What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  24. 24th October 1959Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  25. 25th October 1959Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  26. 26th October 1959In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  27. 27th October 1959State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  28. 28th October 1959What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  29. 29th October 1959State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  30. 30th October 1959Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  31. 31st October 1959Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.