Q 01/05

Taiwan marks Father's Day on which date, chosen because it sounds like 'bàba', the Mandarin word for dad?

A) 6 June

B) 8 August

C) 9 September

D) 10 October

Answer · why

B) 8 August

8 August: 'eight' is 'bā' in Mandarin, so the eighth day of the eighth month reads 'bā bā', almost the same as 'bàba', and Taiwanese fathers get their...

Q 02/05

Which actor gave his voice to two of cinema's most famous fathers, Darth Vader and Mufasa?

A) Morgan Freeman

B) James Earl Jones

C) Jeremy Irons

D) Samuel L. Jackson

Answer · why

B) James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones stuttered so badly as a boy that he hardly spoke for years, until a high-school teacher got him to recite a poem to the class and the...

Q 03/05

Sonora Smart Dodd founded Father's Day to honour her father, a veteran of which war?

A) War of 1812

B) Mexican–American War

C) Civil War

D) Spanish–American War

Answer · why

C) Civil War

Civil War: William Jackson Smart was widowed in 1898 when his wife died in childbirth, and Sonora, at 16 the eldest child and only girl, helped him br...

Q 04/05

Which flower did people in Spokane wear on the first Father's Day in 1910?

A) Carnation

B) Rose

C) Lily

D) Sunflower

Answer · why

B) Rose

The rose: boys from the Spokane YMCA wore fresh-cut roses in their lapels, red for a living father and white for one who had died. The carnation was a...

Q 05/05

Which president, in the election year 1972, signed the law that made Father's Day a permanent US national holiday?

A) Richard Nixon

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Gerald Ford

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

A) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon signed the law on April 24, 1972, 62 years after Spokane's first celebration. Lyndon B. Johnson's 1966 proclamation had covered that yea...