Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1964Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 2nd December 1964Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 3rd December 1964Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 4th December 1964Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 5th December 1964Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 6th December 1964According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 7th December 1964Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 8th December 1964According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 9th December 1964Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 10th December 1964Which two philosophers are most associated with the objection that the universe as a whole may not need a cause, even though things within it do?
- 11th December 1964Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 12th December 1964Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 13th December 1964Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
- 14th December 1964State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 15th December 1964Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 16th December 1964Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 17th December 1964Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 18th December 1964Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 19th December 1964Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
- 20th December 1964What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
- 21st December 1964Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
- 22nd December 1964According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 23rd December 1964What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
- 24th December 1964In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
- 25th December 1964State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
- 26th December 1964What is umrah?
- 27th December 1964What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
- 28th December 1964Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
- 29th December 1964Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
- 30th December 1964What is meant by a wedding vow?
- 31st December 1964Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?