United States Holidays
Foreign Holidays
Festivals
Ceremonies
Major Religions
100
This holiday is celebrated on January 1st every year
What is New Year's Day?
100
What is a Jewish holiday celebrated for eight days and nights?
Hanukkah
100
What is the name of the Chinese festival that takes place to mark the end of the winter season?
Spring Festival
100
What ceremony takes place to unite two people in marriage?
Wedding
100
Which is the largest and most popular religion of the United States that is based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ?
Christianity
200
This holiday is associated with Santa Claus
What is Christmas?
200
What holiday is commonly known as the Jewish New Year?
Rosh Hashanah
200
What is the name of the festival held in New Orleans, Louisiana for about two weeks before and through Fat Tuesday?
Mardi Gras
200
What is a ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who died?
Funeral
200
What religion believes in reincarnation and that one must go through cycles of birth, life, and death and after many such cycles, if a person releases their attachment to desire and the self, they can attain Nirvana?
Buddhism
300
This holiday is followed by Black Friday
What is Thanksgiving?
300
Which holiday was made an official feast day in the early 17th century, and has gradually become a secular celebration of Irish culture in general?
Saint Patrick's Day
300
What is the name of the annual four-day Christian music festival that is held in Mount Union, Pennsylvania?
Creation Festival
300
What is a ceremony where one receives a diploma?
Graduation
300
Which religion has the two sacred texts of Islam known as the Qur'an and the Hadith?
Islam
400
This holiday, which occurs every year on July 4th, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
What is Independence Day?
400
Which holiday is celebrated by African American families by a child lighting one candle per night for seven nights?
Kwanzaa
400
What is the name of the annual festival held in Louisville, Kentucky during the two weeks the first Saturday in May?
Kentucky Derby Festival
400
What ceremony is held for infants where they put water on the infant and the infant usually wears a white gown?
Christening
400
Which religion has the sacred texts known as the Vedas: the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda?
Hinduism
500
This holiday is celebrated on the third Monday of January and it honors a major leader of the civil rights movement
What is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?
500
Which holiday is in the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar and every day during this month, Muslims around the world spend the daylight hours in a complete fast?
Ramadan
500
What art and cultural festival is held in Edinburgh, Scotland and is known as the largest annual cultural festival in the world?
Edinburgh Festival
500
What ceremony is held in the synagogue to admit young men and women as adult members of the Jewish community after they have successfully completes a course of study in Judaism?
Confirmation
500
Which religion focuses on the relationships between the Creator, mankind, and the land of Israel?
Judaism