Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

January 1961 5-a-day

Every sheet in January 1961

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

  1. 1st January 1961Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
  2. 2nd January 1961What does Asma-ul-Husna mean in English?
  3. 3rd January 1961Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
  4. 4th January 1961Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
  5. 5th January 1961What is meant by Sawm?
  6. 6th January 1961What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
  7. 7th January 1961Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
  8. 8th January 1961In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
  9. 9th January 1961State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
  10. 10th January 1961In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  11. 11th January 1961What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
  12. 12th January 1961Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
  13. 13th January 1961In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  14. 14th January 1961According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  15. 15th January 1961Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  16. 16th January 1961What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  17. 17th January 1961What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  18. 18th January 1961Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  19. 19th January 1961Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  20. 20th January 1961State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  21. 21st January 1961Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  22. 22nd January 1961Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  23. 23rd January 1961State one feature of worship in a house church.
  24. 24th January 1961Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  25. 25th January 1961According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  26. 26th January 1961Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  27. 27th January 1961Give one Arabic term for angels.
  28. 28th January 1961Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  29. 29th January 1961Which month does Ashura fall in?
  30. 30th January 1961Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  31. 31st January 1961Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.