Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

January 1979 5-a-day

Every sheet in January 1979

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 1979Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  2. 2nd January 1979State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  3. 3rd January 1979According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  4. 4th January 1979What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  5. 5th January 1979What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  6. 6th January 1979Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  7. 7th January 1979State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  8. 8th January 1979Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  9. 9th January 1979Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  10. 10th January 1979Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  11. 11th January 1979What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  12. 12th January 1979Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  13. 13th January 1979Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  14. 14th January 1979In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  15. 15th January 1979State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  16. 16th January 1979What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  17. 17th January 1979State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  18. 18th January 1979Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  19. 19th January 1979Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
  20. 20th January 1979Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
  21. 21st January 1979State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
  22. 22nd January 1979Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  23. 23rd January 1979Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.
  24. 24th January 1979What wrongly do Job's friends assume is the cause of his suffering?
  25. 25th January 1979State who usually leads a Confirmation service in the Anglican Church.
  26. 26th January 1979According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  27. 27th January 1979Give one reason minor signs are described as 'minor' rather than 'major'.
  28. 28th January 1979What title is traditionally given to Abu Bakr, partly because of his response to the Night Journey?
  29. 29th January 1979Give the Arabic term for a miracle Allah grants a prophet as a sign of their message.
  30. 30th January 1979Name the three conditions of istita'ah (ability) that make Hajj obligatory.
  31. 31st January 1979How many obligatory rakahs are performed in the Fajr prayer?