Days of the Week Trivia
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50 free Days of the Week trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Every weekday carries a god, a planet or a piece of history in its name. This quiz walks through Monday to Sunday: the Norse and Roman deities behind the names, the languages that just count the days instead, and the famous dates that borrowed a weekday for themselves, from Black Tuesday in 1929 to Cyber Monday and Wednesday Addams. Expect trivia about Tuesday, Mondays, Fridays and weekends in general: Super Tuesday, Blue Monday, Taco Tuesday, Friday the 13th, Maundy Thursday and the five-day workweek. Fifty questions, answers explained, free to play or print.
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Q 01Tuesday is named for Tiw, the Norse Tyr, who lost what to the monstrous wolf Fenrir?
His hand
His hand. Tyr placed it in Fenrir's jaws as a pledge of good faith while the gods bound the wolf, and Fenrir bit it off when he realised he had been tricked.
Q 02Which horse race, run on the first Tuesday of November, is known as 'the race that stops a nation'?
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup. Run at Flemington since 1861, it draws such a following that race day has been a public holiday in Melbourne since the 1870s.
Q 03Dienstag, German for Tuesday, is linked to the 'thing', which was what in Germanic societies?
An assembly
An assembly. Free people met at the thing to settle disputes and make law, and Roman-era inscriptions honouring a war god titled Thingsus, 'of the thing', are thought to lie behind the name Dienstag.
Q 04In Japanese, Tuesday is kayōbi, named after which planet?
Mars
Mars. Japan took its weekday names from Chinese astrology about a thousand years ago: the planet is the 'fire star', so kayōbi is literally 'fire day', as Tuesday is in Korean too.
Q 05In Greek the name for Tuesday, Triti, literally means what?
The third
The third. Greek counts Tuesday as the third day of a week that opens on Sunday, the Lord's Day; only Friday and Saturday break the numbering, named for the Preparation and the Sabbath.
Q 06Super Tuesday is the day when the most US states hold what?
Presidential primaries
Presidential primaries. Around one in three convention delegates can be won that day, so the results often settle who each party's front-runner is.
Q 07In 2023 a Wyoming-based fast-food chain abandoned its federal trademark on which phrase?
Taco Tuesday
Taco Tuesday. Taco John's had held the mark since 1989 and dropped it after Taco Bell petitioned to cancel it, saying the fight wasn't worth millions in lawyers' fees.
Q 08In Britain and Ireland, Shrove Tuesday is popularly named after which food?
Pancakes
Pancakes. Frying a batch was the easy way to use up the eggs, milk and butter in the house before weeks of fasting began, which is how the day became Pancake Day.
Q 09Shrove Tuesday takes its name from 'shrive', a word meaning what?
Absolve
Absolve. Christians went to confession on the day to be 'shriven' of their sins, and the word survives in 'short shrift', once the brief confession allowed a condemned prisoner.
Q 10What does the word ‘Gras’ in Mardi Gras mean?
Fat
Fat. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, the final chance to feast on meat, butter, eggs and cheese before the weeks of fasting that begin the next morning.
Q 11Which company introduced 'Patch Tuesday' in 2003, bundling its security fixes on the second Tuesday of each month?
Microsoft
Microsoft. Saving a month of fixes for one day lets IT teams plan ahead, but attackers pick the patches apart so quickly that the following day is nicknamed Exploit Wednesday.
Q 12Which US president was in office when Wall Street crashed on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover. He had taken office only that March, and as the Depression deepened he was blamed so widely that the shanty towns of the homeless were nicknamed Hoovervilles.
Q 13Which sportswriter turned visits to his dying professor into the bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie?
Mitch Albom
Q 21The Bangles' 'Manic Monday' was written by which star under the pseudonym 'Christopher'?
Prince
It reached number two in the US, held off the top spot by Prince's own 'Kiss'.
Q 22Monday Night Football originally aired on which network from 1970 to 2005?
ABC
ABC. Its booth made news of its own: in December 1980 Howard Cosell broke off from the game to tell viewers that John Lennon had been shot dead.
Q 23Which Federal Reserve chairman, new to the job, faced the 'Black Monday' crash of 1987?
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan. He had been chairman for about two months when the Dow fell 22.6% in a day, and the next morning he pledged in a single sentence that the Fed stood ready to supply liquidity.
Mitch Albom. He had lost touch with Morrie Schwartz after college until he saw his old professor on TV's Nightline, talking about dying, and began flying in to see him every Tuesday.
Q 14Which French painter built A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte from tiny dots of colour?
Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat. The canvas took him two years, and a century later it inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George.
Q 15Which band's 1983 song 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' is about the Troubles in Northern Ireland?
U2
U2. The song recalls the day in 1972 when British soldiers shot unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry, and Bono took to introducing it on stage with the words 'This is not a rebel song.'
Q 16On 'Ruby Tuesday' by the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones plays a countermelody on what?
Alto recorder
Alto recorder. Its flute-like line runs through the song, and the double bass took two Stones to play: Bill Wyman fingered the notes while Keith Richards bowed.
Q 17Monday's name comes from the Old English for the day of what?
The moon
The moon. Mōnandæg was the Anglo-Saxons' translation of Latin dies Lunae, 'day of the moon', the name that French lundi and Spanish lunes inherited directly.
Q 18Under the ISO 8601 standard, Monday is which day of the week?
The first
The first. The international standard numbers the days from Monday, but calendars in the US, Canada and Japan still open the week on Sunday.
Q 19'Blue Monday', billed as the most depressing day of the year, falls in which month?
January
January. The date comes from a 2005 press release for the holiday firm Sky Travel, backed by a 'formula' of weather, debt and broken resolutions that scientists dismiss as nonsense.
Q 20Which US trade group coined 'Cyber Monday' in 2005 for the online shopping surge after Thanksgiving?
National Retail Federation
National Retail Federation. Its online arm had seen orders jump on that Monday, as people back at their desks shopped on faster office connections, and put the name in a press release.
Q 24Garfield, the cat famous for hating Mondays, was first published locally under what title?
Jon
Jon. Jim Davis turned to a cat after an editor told him nobody could relate to his earlier strip about a gnat, and at first the owner got top billing in an Indiana local paper.
Q 25Whit Monday is the public holiday celebrated the day after which Christian feast?
Pentecost
Pentecost. Its old English name is Whitsunday, 'white Sunday', possibly from the white robes worn by people baptised on that day.
Q 26Wednesday takes its name from Woden, the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of which Norse god?
Odin
Odin. Woden is his Old English name, and the Romans matched him with their Mercury, which is why the same day is mercredi in French and miércoles in Spanish.
Q 27Ash Wednesday marks the first day of which season?
Lent
Lent. The ashes marked on worshippers' foreheads are made by burning the palm branches blessed on the previous year's Palm Sunday.
Q 28Charles Addams named Wednesday Addams after a line from which nursery rhyme?
Monday's Child
Monday's Child. A woman Addams met at a party said she offered its line 'Wednesday's child is full of woe' for the gloomy daughter, who like the rest of the family went unnamed in the New Yorker cartoons until the 1960s.
Q 29Who plays the title role in the Netflix series Wednesday?
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega. She choreographed Wednesday's dance scene herself, and Christina Ricci, who played the character in the 1990s films, joined the cast as a teacher.
Q 30Thursday is named for the Germanic thunder god equated with which Roman deity?
Jupiter
Jupiter. Both gods wield thunder, so the Romans' 'day of Jove' became Thor's day in the north, while Italian giovedì and French jeudi keep the Latin name.