| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| January 1 | New Year's Day | 92%
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| December 25 | Christmas Day | 85%
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| August 15 | Independence Day (India's independence from the British in 1947) | 69%
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| July 4 | Independence Day (USA declared independence in 1776; federal holiday) | 69%
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| May 1 | International Workers' Day (Labour Day) | 69%
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| September (1st Monday) | Labor Day (USA; federal holiday) | 69%
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| December 26 | Boxing Day (also Saint Stephen's Day) | 62%
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| November (4th Thursday) | Thanksgiving (harvest festival in the USA; federal holiday) | 62%
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| February 14 | Valentine's Day (not a public holiday) | 62%
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| Friday March-May | Good Friday (Christ's crucifixion) | 54%
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| March 17 | Saint Patrick's Day | 46%
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| November 11 | Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Veterans' Day (the end of WWI in 1918) | 38%
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| January (3rd Monday) | Birthday of Martin Luther King jr. (USA, born January 15, 1929; federal holiday) | 38%
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| January-February | Chinese New Year (called Spring Festival) | 38%
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| Sunday March-May | Easter Sunday (Christ's resurrection) | 38%
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| May (last Monday) | Memorial Day (USA, for American military dead; federal holiday) | 38%
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| October-November (Kartik) | Diwali (Hindu, Jain and Sikh festival of light triumphing over darkness) | 31%
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| Monday March-May | Easter Monday | 31%
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| Dhu al-Hijjah 10-12 | Eid al-Adha (festival of the sacrifice, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son) | 31%
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| Shawwal 1 | Eid al-Fitr (festival of breaking the Ramadan fast) | 31%
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| October 12 | Columbus Day (Columbus's landing in the Bahamas in 1492) | 23%
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| April 22 | Earth Day (since 1970, but not a public holiday) | 23%
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| March-April (Nisan 15-21) | Pesach (Passover, for the Jewish exodus from Egypt) | 23%
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| November 1 | All Saints' Day | 15%
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| Thursday April-June | Ascension Day (ascension of Christ into Heaven) | 15%
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| January 26 | Australia Day (arrival of the British in 1788) | 15%
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| July 14 | Bastille Day (France's national day, start of the French Revolution in 1789) | 15%
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| January 6 | Epiphany (the Magi ("Three Kings") visiting Jesus; also baptism of adult Jesus) | 15%
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| March 8 | International Women's Day (first celebrated in 1914) | 15%
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| Sept-Oct (Tishrei 1) | Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) | 15%
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| June 24 | Saint John's Day (birth of John the Baptist) (also Midsummer's Day) | 15%
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| Sept-Oct (Tishrei 15-21) | Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Harvest Festival) | 15%
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| Sunday May-June | Whit Sunday (Pentecost, descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles) | 15%
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| Sept-Oct (Tishrei 10) | Yom Kippur (Jewish day of atonement) | 15%
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| November 2 | All Souls' Day | 8%
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| April 24 | Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (start of the genocide in 1915) | 8%
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| Muharram 10 | Ashura (Shias mourning Husayn's death at Battle of Karbala, 680) | 8%
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| August 15 | Assumption Day (assumption of Mary into Heaven) | 8%
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| July 1 | Canada Day (founding of Canada in 1867) | 8%
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| October 1 | China's national day (founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949) | 8%
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| June 29 | Feasts of Saints Peter and Paul (apostles martyred in Rome) | 8%
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| October 3 | German Unity Day (reunification in 1990) | 8%
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| April-May (Nisan 27) | Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) in Israel | 8%
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| December 8 | Immaculate Conception (Mary's conception) | 8%
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| January 27 | International Holocaust Remembrance Day (liberation of Auschwitz in 1945) | 8%
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| Thursday March-May | Maundy Thursday (Last Supper of Christ) | 8%
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| Rabi'-ul-Awwal 12/17 | Mawlid (birth of the prophet Muhammad in 570) | 8%
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| May 17 | Norway's national day (passing the Constitution in 1814) | 8%
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| March 19, 20 or 21 | Nowruz (Iranian New Year, the vernal equinox) | 8%
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| July 29 | Olsok (Saint Olaf's Wake, his death in 1030) | 8%
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| October 31 | Reformation Day (Luther's publication of the 95 Theses in 1517) | 8%
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| April 30 | Reunification Day (Vietnam's reunification in 1975) | 8%
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| May-June (Sivan 6) | Shavuot (festival of weeks for wheat harvest, and God's giving of the Torah) | 8%
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| October 24 | United Nations Day (founding of UN in 1945, but not a public holiday) | 8%
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| April-June (Vaisakha full moon) | Vesak (the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha) | 8%
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| May 9 | Victory Day (end of WWII in Europe, date in former Communist Bloc countries) | 8%
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| May 8 | Victory in Europe Day (the end of WWII in Europe) | 8%
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| Monday May-June | Whit Monday / Pentecost Monday | 8%
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| February-March | Clean Monday (start of Great Lent, fasting before Easter, in Eastern Christianity) | 0%
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| Thursday May-June | Corpus Christi (feast of the body of Christ) | 0%
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| June 3 | Death of Khomeini (Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini's death in 1989) | 0%
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| October 2 | Gandhi Jayanti (birth of Mohandas Gandhi in 1869) | 0%
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| November 20 (3rd Monday) | Revolution Day (start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910) | 0%
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| June 12 | Russia Day (declaration of Russia as a sovereign state within USSR, 1990) | 0%
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| November 30 | Saint Andrew's Day | 0%
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| March 19 | Saint Joseph's Day (husband of Mary) | 0%
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