Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

January 1962 5-a-day

Every sheet in January 1962

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 1962Give one just war criterion that judges how proportionate the harm of a war is to the good it might achieve.
  2. 2nd January 1962Give one Bible reference that Christians associate with peacemaking.
  3. 3rd January 1962Which of the five statutory purposes of sentencing focuses on making amends to those affected by a crime?
  4. 4th January 1962Give the definition of corporal punishment.
  5. 5th January 1962Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.
  6. 6th January 1962State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
  7. 7th January 1962Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  8. 8th January 1962According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?
  9. 9th January 1962A church's weekly Sunday attendance falls from 120 to 90 over five years, while its midweek 'Messy Church' grows to attract 40 new families. Calculate the percentage fall in Sunday attendance.
  10. 10th January 1962Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
  11. 11th January 1962According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  12. 12th January 1962According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
  13. 13th January 1962Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
  14. 14th January 1962Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
  15. 15th January 1962Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
  16. 16th January 1962Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
  17. 17th January 1962Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
  18. 18th January 1962State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
  19. 19th January 1962Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
  20. 20th January 1962Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
  21. 21st January 1962In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
  22. 22nd January 1962In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
  23. 23rd January 1962Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
  24. 24th January 1962Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
  25. 25th January 1962Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
  26. 26th January 1962Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
  27. 27th January 1962Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).
  28. 28th January 1962In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
  29. 29th January 1962State what Zakah is calculated as a percentage of.
  30. 30th January 1962Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  31. 31st January 1962According to James 2:26, what is faith without deeds compared to?