aMAYzing Facts
This holiday, celebrated by gifting brunch, flowers, and breakfast in bed, honors a matriarchal figure.
What is Mothers' Day?
This program, established in 1935, is the largest form of income for retired U.S. Americans.
a) social security
b) the IRS
c) OSHA
What is Social Security?
The most-sold children’s book of all time is Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived in this country.
What is France?
This is the only sport ever played on the moon.
What is golf?
This North American country’s flag contains Aztec folklore in the form of two animals: a golden eagle and snake.
What is Mexico?
This sci-fi franchise is celebrated on May 4th, based on a line from the movies.
What is Star Wars?
In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act was passed. It outlawed this practice, affecting minors.
What is child labor?
(It also established the 8-hour workday and created the workplace safety bureau: OSHA)
“Bibliosima” is the scientific name for this beloved phenomenon for readers everywhere.
a) Smell of books
b) Sound of pages turning
c) Fear of books
d) Love of dinosaurs
What is a) the smell of books?
This fruit-based food is the first ever eaten in space.
What is applesauce?
This European island nation has a tricolor flag that includes orange, white, and green.
What is Ireland?
This green gemstone is the birthstone for the month of May.
What is emerald?
Labor Day, celebrated in September, was adopted after the 1894 Pullman Strike, in which organizers in this industry stopped working, forcing the entire economy of the midwest to a hault.
a) Dairy
b) Railroads
c) Banking
What are b) railroads?
What percentage of adults around the world cannot read or write?
a) 2%
b) 5%
c) 15%
d) 20%
What is d) 20%?
Sputnik, the first ever man-made satellite, was sent out from this country.
What is the USSR? (or modern-day Russia)
Though Canada’s flag boasts of a maple leaf, this Mediterranean country’s flag features a cedar tree in the center.
What is d) Lebanon?
We call May's full moon this, appropriate for the spring season.
What is the Flower Moon?
May 1 was chosen as the date of this holiday to commemorate the “Haymarket Massacre” of 1886, where a peaceful protest fighting to pass a law about this ended in deadly police brutality.
a) The 8 hour workday
b) The right to retire
c) The Civil Rights Act
What is a) the 8 hour workday?
The oldest book in existence, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was recorded on clay tablets. It came from ancient Sumeria, part of this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
The first woman in space, [Valentina Tereshkova, on the USSR's flight of Vostok 6] entered space in this decade.
What is the 1960s? (1963!)
This north African nation’s flag has three horizontal stripes: red, white, and black. In the center of the flag bears the country’s emblem: a golden eagle.
What is Egypt?
This flower is the official flower for the month of May (There are 2 correct options!)
What is lily of the valley (or) hawthorn?
According to the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft costs U.S. workers as much as ______ per year.
a) $100,000
b) $3 million
b) $1 billion
d) $50 billion
What is d) $50 billion?
(A number far higher than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined!)
On average, people of this island country read more books a year than anyone else.
What is Iceland?
According to a study conducted by Bifröst University in 2013, 50% of them read at least 8 books per year, while an impressive 93% of them read at least one!
This is the name of the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.
a) Galileo
b) Archimedes
c) Confucius
d) Rumi
What is a) Galileo?
This is the only country that has a non-rectagonal flag - instead, its flag is two triangles representing mountains. The flag has pictures of the sun and moon, representing the country’s biggest religions: Buddhism and Hinduism.
What is Nepal?