Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

December 1986 5-a-day

Every sheet in December 1986

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 1986What does Russell's teapot analogy argue about the burden of proof?
  2. 2nd December 1986What term describes knowledge of God that comes through nature, reason or general experience, available in principle to anyone?
  3. 3rd December 1986What term describes a combatant who has surrendered or is otherwise unable to continue fighting?
  4. 4th December 1986A country holds a powerful weapon only to discourage attack, without intending to use it first. What is this strategy called?
  5. 5th December 1986How did Pope Francis's teaching on nuclear weapons, from 2017 onwards, go further than Pope John Paul II's 1982 position?
  6. 6th December 1986What does it mean when a Christian says 'I forgive you' to someone who wronged them?
  7. 7th December 1986What does the Christian idea of 'the Fall' refer to?
  8. 8th December 1986State one reason poverty should not be seen as the fault of the person experiencing it.
  9. 9th December 1986What is meant by the 'cycle of poverty'?
  10. 10th December 1986State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
  11. 11th December 1986According to Romans 2:14-15, what inner faculty is described as 'bearing witness' to right and wrong?
  12. 12th December 1986Name the Roman emperor traditionally associated with blaming Christians for the great fire of Rome.
  13. 13th December 1986Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
  14. 14th December 1986State one example of adab when speaking one of Allah's names aloud.
  15. 15th December 1986Which earlier scripture do Muslims associate with the prophet Dawud (David)?
  16. 16th December 1986Give one way belief in Akhirah might help a Muslim cope with suffering or injustice experienced in this life.
  17. 17th December 1986How many Obligatory Acts make up Furu al-Din in total?
  18. 18th December 1986A Muslim's qualifying savings are 5,000 pounds. Calculate 2.5 per cent zakah on this amount.
  19. 19th December 1986According to Qur'an 40:60, what does Allah promise in response to dua?
  20. 20th December 1986Give one legal protection a married couple has that a cohabiting couple does not automatically have.
  21. 21st December 1986What is meant by an 'empty nest' family?
  22. 22nd December 1986In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  23. 23rd December 1986Which UK Act of Parliament licenses and regulates scientific procedures on protected animals?
  24. 24th December 1986In which cave is Muhammad believed to have first encountered the angel Jibril?
  25. 25th December 1986Who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), the key study of mystical experience?
  26. 26th December 1986Give one virtue that the soul-making theodicy says can be developed through facing suffering.
  27. 27th December 1986Give one just war criterion that judges how proportionate the harm of a war is to the good it might achieve.
  28. 28th December 1986Give one Bible reference that Christians associate with peacemaking.
  29. 29th December 1986Which of the five statutory purposes of sentencing focuses on making amends to those affected by a crime?
  30. 30th December 1986Give the definition of corporal punishment.
  31. 31st December 1986Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.