aMAYzing Facts
May Day: a History of Labor Laws
Read around the World
Firsts in Space
Name that Country! (by flags)
100

This holiday, celebrated by gifting brunch, flowers, and breakfast in bed, honors a matriarchal figure.

What is Mothers' Day?

100

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?

100

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?

100

This is the only sport ever played on the moon.

What is golf?

100

This North American country’s flag contains Aztec folklore in the form of two animals: a golden eagle and snake.

What is Mexico?

200

This sci-fi franchise is celebrated on May 4th, based on a line from the movies.

What is Star Wars?

200

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)

200

“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?

200

This fruit-based food is the first ever eaten in space.

What is applesauce?

200

This European island nation has a tricolor flag that includes orange, white, and green.

What is Ireland?

300

This green gemstone is the birthstone for the month of May.

What is emerald?

300

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?

300

What percentage of adults around the world cannot read or write?

a) 2%

b) 5%

c) 15%

d) 20%

What is d) 20%?

300

Sputnik, the first ever man-made satellite, was sent out from this country.

What is the USSR? (or modern-day Russia)

300

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?

400

We call May's full moon this, appropriate for the spring season.

What is the Flower Moon?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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!)

400

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?

500

This flower is the official flower for the month of May (There are 2 correct options!)

What is lily of the valley (or) hawthorn?

500

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!)

500

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!

500

This is the name of the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

a) Galileo

b) Archimedes

c) Confucius

d) Rumi

What is a) Galileo?

500

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?