Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
August 2012 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in August 2012, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in August 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2012Name the bridge that, according to Muslim tradition, will stretch over Jahannam on the Day of Judgement.
- 2nd August 2012What is meant by Zakah?
- 3rd August 2012True or false: charity given voluntarily, beyond the obligatory zakah, is called sadaqah.
- 4th August 2012On which day of the week is Jummah prayer performed?
- 5th August 2012Give one reason a couple might choose to cohabit rather than marry.
- 6th August 2012What is meant by a nuclear family?
- 7th August 2012In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 8th August 2012According to Genesis 1:28, what authority did God give humans over animals?
- 9th August 2012Give one psychological explanation sceptics use to challenge visions as reliable evidence of God.
- 10th August 2012In which decade did the charismatic Christian phenomenon known as the Toronto Blessing begin?
- 11th August 2012What do believers in afterlife compensation hope will happen to suffering after death?
- 12th August 2012What historical conflict is commonly used as a case study of 'holy war'?
- 13th August 2012Why might a Muslim link justice (adl) to a desire for peace?
- 14th August 2012State one criticism of retribution as the sole aim of punishment.
- 15th August 2012Name one form of corporal punishment used historically in the UK.
- 16th August 2012Name the Act of Parliament, and the year it was passed, that lists the protected characteristics in UK law.
- 17th August 2012Name one piece of US legislation that followed from the civil rights movement King helped lead.
- 18th August 2012Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 19th August 2012According to Acts 1:10-11, what did the two men in white tell the disciples as Jesus ascended?
- 20th August 2012Give one factor that has contributed to falling attendance at traditional Sunday services in Britain.
- 21st August 2012Give one symbol associated with Pentecost and state what it represents.
- 22nd August 2012According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 23rd August 2012Which two people are believed to have rebuilt the foundations of the Ka'bah, according to Qur'an 2:127?
- 24th August 2012What is the Arabic term for the angels who record human deeds, sometimes translated 'Noble Recorders'?
- 25th August 2012Give one reason the assassination of the third caliph, Uthman, is significant in the history of the Sunni-Shia split.
- 26th August 2012Give one Qur'an reference used to support keeping five separate daily prayer times.
- 27th August 2012True or false: mainstream Muslim scholarship regards terrorism as a legitimate form of jihad.
- 28th August 2012State one difference between cohabitation and a civil partnership in the UK.
- 29th August 2012Give one reason gender-based stereotypes can lead to unequal treatment at work.
- 30th August 2012According to Philippians 1:23, where does Paul say he desires to be after death?
- 31st August 2012Name the intermediate state between death and the Day of Judgement referred to in the Qur'an.