Public Holidays (from many countries) - Statistics

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