Statistics for Public Holidays (from many countries)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
January 1	New Year's Day	100%
December 25	Christmas Day	91%
August 15	Independence Day (India's independence from the British in 1947)	73%
July 4	Independence Day (USA declared independence in 1776; federal holiday)	73%
May 1	International Workers' Day (Labour Day)	73%
September (1st Monday)	Labor Day (USA; federal holiday)	73%
December 26	Boxing Day (also Saint Stephen's Day)	64%
Friday March-May	Good Friday (Christ's crucifixion)	64%
November (4th Thursday)	Thanksgiving (harvest festival in the USA; federal holiday)	64%
February 14	Valentine's Day (not a public holiday)	64%
January (3rd Monday)	Birthday of Martin Luther King jr. (USA, born January 15, 1929; federal holiday)	45%
Sunday March-May	Easter Sunday (Christ's resurrection)	45%
March 17	Saint Patrick's Day	45%
November 11	Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Veterans' Day (the end of WWI in 1918)	36%
January-February	Chinese New Year (called Spring Festival)	36%
Monday March-May	Easter Monday	36%
May (last Monday)	Memorial Day (USA, for American military dead; federal holiday)	36%
October 12	Columbus Day (Columbus's landing in the Bahamas in 1492)	27%
October-November (Kartik)	Diwali (Hindu, Jain and Sikh festival of light triumphing over darkness)	27%
April 22	Earth Day (since 1970, but not a public holiday)	27%
Dhu al-Hijjah 10-12	Eid al-Adha (festival of the sacrifice, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son)	27%
Shawwal 1	Eid al-Fitr (festival of breaking the Ramadan fast)	27%
March-April (Nisan 15-21)	Pesach (Passover, for the Jewish exodus from Egypt)	27%
November 1	All Saints' Day	18%
Thursday April-June	Ascension Day (ascension of Christ into Heaven)	18%
January 26	Australia Day (arrival of the British in 1788)	18%
July 14	Bastille Day (France's national day, start of the French Revolution in 1789)	18%
January 6	Epiphany (the Magi ("Three Kings") visiting Jesus; also baptism of adult Jesus)	18%
March 8	International Women's Day (first celebrated in 1914)	18%
Sept-Oct (Tishrei 1)	Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)	18%
Sept-Oct (Tishrei 15-21)	Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Harvest Festival)	18%
Sunday May-June	Whit Sunday (Pentecost, descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles)	18%
Sept-Oct (Tishrei 10)	Yom Kippur (Jewish day of atonement)	18%
November 2	All Souls' Day	9%
April 24	Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (start of the genocide in 1915)	9%
Muharram 10	Ashura (Shias mourning Husayn's death at Battle of Karbala, 680)	9%
August 15	Assumption Day (assumption of Mary into Heaven)	9%
July 1	Canada Day (founding of Canada in 1867)	9%
October 1	China's national day (founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949)	9%
June 29	Feasts of Saints Peter and Paul (apostles martyred in Rome)	9%
October 3	German Unity Day (reunification in 1990)	9%
April-May (Nisan 27)	Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) in Israel	9%
December 8	Immaculate Conception (Mary's conception)	9%
January 27	International Holocaust Remembrance Day (liberation of Auschwitz in 1945)	9%
Thursday March-May	Maundy Thursday (Last Supper of Christ)	9%
Rabi'-ul-Awwal 12/17	Mawlid (birth of the prophet Muhammad in 570)	9%
May 17	Norway's national day (passing the Constitution in 1814)	9%
March 19, 20 or 21	Nowruz (Iranian New Year, the vernal equinox)	9%
July 29	Olsok (Saint Olaf's Wake, his death in 1030)	9%
October 31	Reformation Day (Luther's publication of the 95 Theses in 1517)	9%
April 30	Reunification Day (Vietnam's reunification in 1975)	9%
June 24	Saint John's Day (birth of John the Baptist) (also Midsummer's Day)	9%
May-June (Sivan 6)	Shavuot (festival of weeks for wheat harvest, and God's giving of the Torah)	9%
October 24	United Nations Day (founding of UN in 1945, but not a public holiday)	9%
April-June (Vaisakha full moon)	Vesak (the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha)	9%
May 9	Victory Day (end of WWII in Europe, date in former Communist Bloc countries)	9%
May 8	Victory in Europe Day (the end of WWII in Europe)	9%
Monday May-June	Whit Monday / Pentecost Monday	9%
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%