Q 01/05

December's name comes from the Latin word for which number, a leftover from the early Roman calendar?

A) Eight

B) Nine

C) Ten

D) Twelve

Answer · why

C) Ten

Ten is 'decem' in Latin, and December was the tenth month of Rome's earliest calendar. Two months were later added to the front of the year, but the o...

Q 02/05

Which sitcom made a hit of Festivus, the December 23 holiday with an aluminum pole?

A) Friends

B) Seinfeld

C) Frasier

D) Mad About You

Answer · why

B) Seinfeld

Seinfeld put Festivus on the map in the 1997 episode 'The Strike'. The holiday was real: writer Dan O'Keefe's father had invented it, and the family w...

Q 03/05

Whose arrest on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955, set off a boycott that lasted more than a year?

A) Rosa Parks

B) Ella Baker

C) Claudette Colvin

D) Coretta Scott King

Answer · why

A) Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin had been arrested for the same refu...

Q 04/05

Which sport did British and German soldiers play in no man's land during the Christmas truce of 1914?

A) Cricket

B) Rugby

C) Tennis

D) Soccer

Answer · why

D) Soccer

Soccer, which the troops called football, was played at several points along the front that Christmas. Men from both sides also met between the trench...

Q 05/05

Which season begins on December 1 in Australia, where calendar months rather than solstices mark the change?

A) Winter

B) Spring

C) Summer

D) Autumn

Answer · why

C) Summer

Summer begins on December 1 in Australia and New Zealand and ends on the last day of February. The school year there ends in December, so Christmas fa...