Q 01/05

What did Columbus name the island its inhabitants called Guanahaní?

A) San Salvador

B) Santa Cruz

C) La Isabela

D) Santo Domingo

Answer · why

A) San Salvador

San Salvador. Nobody is sure which island it was: Watling Island took the name officially in the 1920s on the strength of its claim, but scholars stil...

Q 02/05

Since 1971, on which Monday of October has Columbus Day fallen in the United States?

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fourth

Answer · why

B) Second

Second. Until then the holiday sat on October 12 itself; a 1968 law moved it, along with Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, to a Monday to give w...

Q 03/05

Which New York group held the first Columbus Day celebration in 1792?

A) Sons of Liberty

B) Saint Nicholas Society

C) Tammany Society

D) Society of the Cincinnati

Answer · why

C) Tammany Society

Tammany Society. The club, later the Tammany Hall political machine, toasted Columbus on the landing's 300th anniversary, yet it took its own name fro...

Q 04/05

Which city hosted the World's Columbian Exposition, the world's fair held to mark 400 years since Columbus's first voyage?

A) Chicago

B) St. Louis

C) Philadelphia

D) New York

Answer · why

A) Chicago

Chicago. The fairground was dedicated in October 1892, in time for the anniversary, but the fair itself did not open to visitors until May 1893, half ...

Q 05/05

Which president became the first to issue a formal proclamation of Indigenous Peoples' Day, on the same day as Columbus Day?

A) Barack Obama

B) Joe Biden

C) Donald Trump

D) Bill Clinton

Answer · why

B) Joe Biden

Joe Biden. His proclamation spoke of a 'centuries-long campaign of violence, displacement, assimilation, and terror' against Native peoples, yet he si...