Q 01/05

What does Black Friday traditionally mark the start of?

A) The winter sales tax holiday

B) The fiscal year

C) The Christmas shopping season

D) The retail hiring season

Answer · why

C) The Christmas shopping season

The Christmas shopping season — Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has been treated as the kickoff of holiday shopping since the mid-20th centu...

Q 02/05

Black Friday follows US Thanksgiving, which since 1941 has been fixed on which day?

A) The last Thursday of November

B) The fourth Thursday of November

C) The first Thursday of December

D) The third Thursday of November

Answer · why

B) The fourth Thursday of November

The fourth Thursday of November became the uniform date nationwide in 1941, and the shopping day after it follows.

Q 03/05

Which American city's police first used 'Black Friday' for post-Thanksgiving crowds and traffic?

A) Chicago

B) Boston

C) New York

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

D) Philadelphia

Philadelphia — its police used 'Black Friday' in the early 1960s for the traffic jams and crowds that clogged downtown the day after Thanksgiving, ahe...

Q 04/05

What did Philadelphia merchants try to rename the day after Thanksgiving in 1961?

A) Bargain Friday

B) Big Friday

C) Golden Friday

D) Bright Friday

Answer · why

B) Big Friday

Big Friday — in 1961 Philadelphia merchants and their PR advisers pushed 'Big Friday' to shed the negative ring of 'Black Friday', but the new name ne...

Q 05/05

In what year did 'Black Friday' first appear in The New York Times, still meaning that city's crowds?

A) 1975

B) 1985

C) 1991

D) 2001

Answer · why

A) 1975

Retailers in Cincinnati and LA had still not heard it in 1985.