Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
August 1999 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in August 1999, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in August 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1999What is umrah?
- 2nd August 1999What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
- 3rd August 1999Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
- 4th August 1999Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
- 5th August 1999What is meant by a wedding vow?
- 6th August 1999Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
- 7th August 1999Define the term stewardship.
- 8th August 1999Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
- 9th August 1999Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
- 10th August 1999Give one non-religious cause of war.
- 11th August 1999Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
- 12th August 1999Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
- 13th August 1999Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
- 14th August 1999What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?
- 15th August 1999Explain, in one sentence, what Qur'an 18:29 teaches about belief.
- 16th August 1999Can a UK court cancel or strike down an Act of Parliament using the Human Rights Act 1998?
- 17th August 1999Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
- 18th August 1999According to Matthew 25:31-46, on what basis are people judged?
- 19th August 1999Give one non-religious factor that might discourage a Christian from going on pilgrimage today.
- 20th August 1999According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
- 21st August 1999In which collection of Hadith is the Hadith of Jibril, the source of the Sunni Six Beliefs, recorded?
- 22nd August 1999What does Khatm an-Nubuwwah mean?
- 23rd August 1999Give one Arabic phrase, other than insha'Allah, that a Muslim might say on seeing something impressive or blessed, showing that it happened by Allah's will.
- 24th August 1999Who was the first of the Twelve Imams, according to Twelver Shia belief?
- 25th August 1999What is the literal meaning of the Arabic word 'Shahadah'?
- 26th August 1999Name the animal that, in the Qur'anic account, replaced Ibrahim's son as the sacrifice at the last moment.
- 27th August 1999Name the 1968 papal document in which the Catholic Church restated its teaching against artificial contraception.
- 28th August 1999Give one possible disadvantage for a nuclear family if a parent becomes seriously ill and there are no relatives living nearby.
- 29th August 1999Name one Christian tradition that follows a mainly or fully vegetarian diet as a matter of religious conviction.
- 30th August 1999Give one difference between voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia.
- 31st August 1999Name the scientific process, proposed by Darwin, that offers a non-design explanation for adaptation in living things.