Q 01/05

Which affectionate title did Indian children give their first prime minister, whose birthday became Children's Day?

A) Chacha (Uncle)

B) Dada (Grandfather)

C) Bhai (Brother)

D) Guru (Teacher)

Answer · why

A) Chacha (Uncle)

Chacha (Uncle) Nehru's birthday was first marked as Children's Day in 1954 and made official by a government edict in 1957.

Q 02/05

Japan's Children's Day windsocks are shaped like which fish, said to become a dragon by swimming upstream?

A) Trout

B) Salmon

C) Carp

D) Catfish

Answer · why

C) Carp

Carp streamers date from the Edo period, when samurai households merged their crested banners into the first koinobori in what is now Tokyo.

Q 03/05

The UN adopted its 1959 Declaration and 1989 Convention on children's rights on which date, now World Children's Day?

A) 14 February

B) 20 November

C) 12 October

D) 1 June

Answer · why

B) 20 November

The 1954 UN resolution that created Universal Children's Day left each country to pick its own date; 20 November stuck because the 1959 Declaration an...

Q 04/05

Which country's Día del Niño, on 30 April, has radio and TV hosts bring their children onto their shows?

A) Peru

B) Spain

C) Colombia

D) Mexico

Answer · why

D) Mexico

Mexico fixed 30 April in the 1920s under President Álvaro Obregón, steering clear of 1 May's Labour Day and Cinco de Mayo, while the UN's own date cla...

Q 05/05

Children's Day began in the 1850s as 'Rose Day' at Charles Leonard's Universalist church in Chelsea, in which US state?

A) New Hampshire

B) Pennsylvania

C) Connecticut

D) Massachusetts

Answer · why

D) Massachusetts

Massachusetts still issues an annual proclamation for the second Sunday in June, and the Universalist Convention of 1867 urged every church to set asi...