Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
January 2009 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in January 2009, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in January 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2009Which Islamic festival coincides with the end of the Hajj period, marked by animal sacrifice?
- 2nd January 2009Give one reason why cohabiting parents might still be regarded as a stable family by most people in Britain today.
- 3rd January 2009Give one reason some religious believers view sex outside marriage as wrong.
- 4th January 2009Name the type of radiation detected throughout space that supports the Big Bang theory.
- 5th January 2009What term do Humanists use for a woman's right to make decisions about her own body and pregnancy?
- 6th January 2009Give one form of practical support Catholic parishes or agencies might offer a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, other than counselling.
- 7th January 2009What does Ockham's razor state, and how is it used to argue for atheism?
- 8th January 2009What term is used for the sense of insight or truth that William James said often accompanies a religious experience?
- 9th January 2009State one action that would breach the principle of proportionality when handling a captured, unarmed soldier.
- 10th January 2009Name the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.
- 11th January 2009Name one Christian denomination or group that actively campaigns for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
- 12th January 2009According to Qur'an 64:14, what does Allah do for those who choose to pardon and overlook a wrong?
- 13th January 2009What is the Christian term for turning back to God and expressing sorrow for sin?
- 14th January 2009Give one way financial pressure linked to poverty can affect someone emotionally.
- 15th January 2009What term describes lacking enough resources to meet basic needs such as food, clean water and shelter?
- 16th January 2009State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
- 17th January 2009Give one Bible reference some Christians use to argue that God chooses who will be saved before they are born.
- 18th January 2009State one difference between discrimination and persecution.
- 19th January 2009Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
- 20th January 2009What does Asma-ul-Husna mean in English?
- 21st January 2009Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
- 22nd January 2009Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
- 23rd January 2009What is meant by Sawm?
- 24th January 2009What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
- 25th January 2009Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
- 26th January 2009In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
- 27th January 2009State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
- 28th January 2009In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 29th January 2009What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 30th January 2009Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 31st January 2009In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?