How it works
These holiday trivia questions and answers come in eleven rounds, one for each big day of the American year: 116 questions, each with four choices.
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The rounds in calendar order
New Year's Day and New Year's Eve opens with a bell in Seoul and fireballs in Scotland. Presidents' Day and the Monday holidays explains why the law still says Washington's Birthday. Then come Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, The Fourth of July, Labor Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Christmas is the longest round: 17 questions on cards, crackers, mistletoe and snow globes.
One holiday, or the whole year
For one holiday, stay on its round: each holds 8 to 17 questions, enough for a table quiz. For a year-end party, mix all eleven. This pack asks none of the questions in the site's single-holiday packs, so a Christmas or Halloween night can use both.
- Thanksgiving is the gentlest round by our estimate; The Fourth of July is the hardest.
- Veterans Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day have no round here. Each has a pack of its own.
Questions and answers
Why is Presidents' Day officially called Washington's Birthday?
Because the law never changed the name. An early draft of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act would have renamed the holiday Presidents' Day, but that proposal failed in committee, and the bill signed in 1968 kept Washington's Birthday.
Which U.S. holidays always fall on a Monday?
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, Washington's Birthday in February, Memorial Day in May, Labor Day in September and Columbus Day in October. Veterans Day was moved to a Monday too, but went back to November 11 in 1978.
Who sent the first Christmas card?
Sir Henry Cole, a civil servant, commissioned the first modern Christmas card in 1843, and John Callcott Horsley designed it.
What was candy corn first called?
Chicken Feed. George Renninger invented the candy in Philadelphia in the 1880s, and production under that name started late in the decade.
Can I print these holiday trivia questions with the answers?
Yes. The print link under the quiz opens the questions as a list that you can trim or add to before printing, and one tick adds the answer key.