January Trivia
Which day of the month is National Trivia Day?
January 4th.
Which annual sports championship game or series was first played on January 15, 1967?
Super Bowl
True/False: Nor'easters only occur during winter months.
False.
Why is snow white?
Light is reflected.
The month of January was named after the Roman god Janus. Janus is the god of?
Beginnings/Transitions
Observed on the third Monday of January each year, in what year did the very first Martin Luther King Jr. Day take place?
(+/- 5 years)
1986
The blizzard of 1967 dumped 23 inches of snow on which Midwestern U.S. city?
Chicago
Every Snowflake has how many sides?
6
The popular narrative poem "The Raven" was first published in January of 1845. Who is its author?
Edgar Allen Poe
After failing to take Germany by a coup in 1923, who became chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933?
Adolf Hitler
A winter storm that brings rain or snow along with coastal flooding and hurricane-force winds to the northeastern U.S. is called?
Nor'easter
In The Polar Express all the tickets have what number on them?
1225 - Christmas!
In the United States, January is national...
Blood Donation Month
In January of what year was Czechoslovakia divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic?
(+/- 10 years)
1993
What year did the President's Day blizzard shut down cities from Boston to Washington D.C.?
(+/- 5 years)
2003
In 1836, which Southern state was the first U.S. state to recognize Christmas as a holiday?
Alabama
Who was the Father of the Nation, assassinated on 30th, January 1948?
Mahatma Gandhi
On January 15th 1559, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. What was her name?
Queen Elizabeth I
Which year did a Victorian-era Blizzard bring massive snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures that left more than 400 people dead from New England to the Chesapeake?
(+/- 10 years)
Blizzard of 1888
The record for the most snowfall in a 24-hour period in the United States happened in Silver Lake, Colorado in 1921. During that 24-hour period how many inches of snow fell?
(+/- 10 inches)
Six feet and four inches (76")