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