Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1987Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
- 2nd December 1987Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
- 3rd December 1987What is meant by Sawm?
- 4th December 1987What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
- 5th December 1987Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
- 6th December 1987In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
- 7th December 1987State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
- 8th December 1987In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 9th December 1987What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 10th December 1987Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 11th December 1987In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 12th December 1987According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 13th December 1987Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 14th December 1987What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 15th December 1987What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 16th December 1987Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 17th December 1987Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 18th December 1987State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 19th December 1987Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 20th December 1987Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 21st December 1987State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 22nd December 1987Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 23rd December 1987According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 24th December 1987Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 25th December 1987Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 26th December 1987Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 27th December 1987Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 28th December 1987Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 29th December 1987Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 30th December 1987According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 31st December 1987Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.