Q 01/05

In the United States, National Grandparents Day is observed on which day?

A) First Sunday after Labor Day

B) Last Sunday in August

C) Second Saturday in October

D) Sunday after Mother's Day

Answer · why

A) First Sunday after Labor Day

First Sunday after Labor Day. Founder Marian McQuade pictured homemade cards and family reunions, and was adamant that the day should never be commerc...

Q 02/05

Which US president signed the first National Grandparents Day proclamation in 1978?

A) Richard Nixon

B) Gerald Ford

C) Jimmy Carter

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

C) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter signed it in August 1978, capping a campaign Marian McQuade began in 1970; the mother of 15 had once run for Congress herself.

Q 03/05

Marian McQuade, founder of National Grandparents Day, was a housewife from which state?

A) Kentucky

B) West Virginia

C) Pennsylvania

D) Massachusetts

Answer · why

B) West Virginia

West Virginia. In 1973 it became the first state to proclaim a Grandparents Day, at McQuade's urging, five years before the national one.

Q 04/05

Often sung at Christmas, 'Over the River and Through the Wood' describes a trip to grandfather's house for which holiday?

A) Easter

B) Independence Day

C) New Year's Day

D) Thanksgiving

Answer · why

D) Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. Lydia Maria Child's poem sends the sleigh 'to grandfather's house'; later singers swapped in grandmother, and some versions swap in Chri...

Q 05/05

Marian McQuade campaigned for a national Grandparents Day mainly to ease what?

A) Pensioner poverty

B) Workplace ageism

C) Elderly loneliness

D) Childcare costs

Answer · why

C) Elderly loneliness

Elderly loneliness, above all in nursing homes. McQuade said the day was not for grandparents like her to get presents; her lobbying had already won a...