Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 2005 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2005, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in December 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2005What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
- 2nd December 2005What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
- 3rd December 2005Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
- 4th December 2005State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
- 5th December 2005Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
- 6th December 2005Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
- 7th December 2005Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
- 8th December 2005What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
- 9th December 2005Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
- 10th December 2005Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
- 11th December 2005In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
- 12th December 2005State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
- 13th December 2005What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
- 14th December 2005State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
- 15th December 2005Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
- 16th December 2005Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
- 17th December 2005Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
- 18th December 2005State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
- 19th December 2005Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 20th December 2005Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.
- 21st December 2005What wrongly do Job's friends assume is the cause of his suffering?
- 22nd December 2005State who usually leads a Confirmation service in the Anglican Church.
- 23rd December 2005According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 24th December 2005Give one reason minor signs are described as 'minor' rather than 'major'.
- 25th December 2005What title is traditionally given to Abu Bakr, partly because of his response to the Night Journey?
- 26th December 2005Give the Arabic term for a miracle Allah grants a prophet as a sign of their message.
- 27th December 2005Name the three conditions of istita'ah (ability) that make Hajj obligatory.
- 28th December 2005How many obligatory rakahs are performed in the Fajr prayer?
- 29th December 2005Name one use of khums funds other than direct support for the poor.
- 30th December 2005What legal term is used for ending a civil partnership, as distinct from ending a marriage?
- 31st December 2005In Islam, what is the marriage agreement signed during the nikah called?