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New Holidays and a Skipped One — Daily trivia Saturday, October 3, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Which sitcom invented Galentine's Day, a celebration of female friendship held the day before Valentine's Day?
- AParks and Rec
- BThe Office
- C30 Rock
- DBrooklyn Nine-Nine
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Parks and Rec
Parks and Recreation. Leslie Knope threw a party for her female friends in a 2010 episode, and real women now mark 13 February with their own.
Q 02Nintendo celebrates which of its characters every March 10, a date that spells his name?
- ALuigi
- BLink
- CMario
- DKirby
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Mario
Mario. Mar 10 reads as MAR10, and Nintendo has used the day to reveal Mario game release dates.
Q 03Amazon's first Prime Day promised more deals than which shopping day?
- ACyber Monday
- BBlack Friday
- CBoxing Day
- DSingles' Day
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Black Friday
Black Friday. Amazon threw the sale for its own 20th birthday, and though shoppers mocked the deals, it said orders beat last Black Friday's.
Q 04Crypto fans celebrate 22 May, when a programmer paid 10,000 bitcoin, then worth about $41, for what?
- AA used laptop
- BA video game
- CA web domain
- DTwo pizzas
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Two pizzas
Two pizzas, delivered in exchange for the coins. By 2019 those 10,000 bitcoin were worth tens of millions of dollars.
Q 05Which corporate giant created Small Business Saturday, urging holiday shoppers to spend at local independent stores?
- AWalmart
- BAmerican Express
- CHome Depot
- DBank of America
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American Express
American Express. It launched the day on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2010, steering card spending toward local merchants.
Q 06What do Mandela Day's 67 minutes of service mark?
- AYears he spent as an activist
- BHis age when freed from prison
- CHis age when elected president
- DMonths he served as president
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Years he spent as an activist
Years he spent as an activist: his foundation counted 67, so the day on his birthday, 18 July, asks a minute of service for each.
Q 07Conservationists gave which animal its own world day on 21 June, the year's longest day or night?
- AElephant
- BLion
- CGiraffe
- DRhinoceros
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Giraffe
The giraffe. The Giraffe Conservation Foundation gives the tallest animal the longest day, or the longest night south of the equator.
Q 08Queen guitarist Brian May co-founded Asteroid Day on 30 June, the anniversary of which impact?
- AThe dinosaur-killing impact
- BThe Chelyabinsk meteor
- CThe Meteor Crater strike
- DThe Tunguska blast
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The Tunguska blast
The Tunguska blast of 1908, which flattened more than 2,000 square kilometres of Siberian forest. May finished his astrophysics PhD in 2007, decades after starting it.
Q 09Why did Japan have no Emperor's Birthday holiday in 2019?
- ANeither emperor reigned on his birthday
- BThe new emperor declined a birthday holiday
- CMourning for the old emperor replaced it
- DThe Olympics moved the birthday holiday
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Neither emperor reigned on his birthday
Neither emperor reigned on his birthday: Akihito stepped down on 30 April, before 23 December, and Naruhito's 23 February holiday began only in 2020.
Q 10Why does Russia's Programmers' Day fall on 13 September, or 12 September in leap years?
- AIt marks a decree's anniversary
- BIt's counted as day 256
- CIt tracks the autumn equinox
- DIt follows the Orthodox calendar
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It's counted as day 256
It's counted as day 256, the number of values a byte can hold, so in leap years 29 February pulls it back to 12 September.
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