Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
January 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1985A country holds a powerful weapon only to discourage attack, without intending to use it first. What is this strategy called?
- 2nd January 1985How did Pope Francis's teaching on nuclear weapons, from 2017 onwards, go further than Pope John Paul II's 1982 position?
- 3rd January 1985What does it mean when a Christian says 'I forgive you' to someone who wronged them?
- 4th January 1985What does the Christian idea of 'the Fall' refer to?
- 5th January 1985State one reason poverty should not be seen as the fault of the person experiencing it.
- 6th January 1985What is meant by the 'cycle of poverty'?
- 7th January 1985State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
- 8th January 1985According to Romans 2:14-15, what inner faculty is described as 'bearing witness' to right and wrong?
- 9th January 1985Name the Roman emperor traditionally associated with blaming Christians for the great fire of Rome.
- 10th January 1985Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
- 11th January 1985State one example of adab when speaking one of Allah's names aloud.
- 12th January 1985Which earlier scripture do Muslims associate with the prophet Dawud (David)?
- 13th January 1985Give one way belief in Akhirah might help a Muslim cope with suffering or injustice experienced in this life.
- 14th January 1985How many Obligatory Acts make up Furu al-Din in total?
- 15th January 1985A Muslim's qualifying savings are 5,000 pounds. Calculate 2.5 per cent zakah on this amount.
- 16th January 1985According to Qur'an 40:60, what does Allah promise in response to dua?
- 17th January 1985Give one legal protection a married couple has that a cohabiting couple does not automatically have.
- 18th January 1985What is meant by an 'empty nest' family?
- 19th January 1985In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 20th January 1985Which UK Act of Parliament licenses and regulates scientific procedures on protected animals?
- 21st January 1985In which cave is Muhammad believed to have first encountered the angel Jibril?
- 22nd January 1985Who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), the key study of mystical experience?
- 23rd January 1985Give one virtue that the soul-making theodicy says can be developed through facing suffering.
- 24th January 1985Give one just war criterion that judges how proportionate the harm of a war is to the good it might achieve.
- 25th January 1985Give one Bible reference that Christians associate with peacemaking.
- 26th January 1985Which of the five statutory purposes of sentencing focuses on making amends to those affected by a crime?
- 27th January 1985Give the definition of corporal punishment.
- 28th January 1985Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.
- 29th January 1985State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
- 30th January 1985Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 31st January 1985According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?