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.

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