Q 01/05

World Kindness Day is observed on which date?

A) 13 November

B) 17 February

C) 1 September

D) 5 December

Answer · why

A) 13 November

It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of national kindness NGOs.

Q 02/05

The movement behind World Kindness Day grew out of a 1963 graduation speech in which country?

A) Canada

B) Japan

C) Denmark

D) India

Answer · why

B) Japan

Japan's Small Kindness Movement began when a university president urged his graduates to be brave in practising small kindnesses, and in 1997 kindness...

Q 03/05

In the United States, Random Acts of Kindness Day falls three days after which holiday?

A) Groundhog Day

B) Valentine's Day

C) Presidents' Day

D) St Patrick's Day

Answer · why

B) Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is 14 February and the kindness day the 17th: the foundation that promotes it, now in Denver, was started in 1995 by the head of a sma...

Q 04/05

Writer Anne Herbert's slogan, first scribbled on a restaurant place mat, urged 'random kindness and senseless acts of' what?

A) Mercy

B) Generosity

C) Beauty

D) Courage

Answer · why

C) Beauty

Beauty completed the line, a flip of grim news phrases about random violence and senseless cruelty; it spread by graffiti and bumper sticker until a s...

Q 05/05

'Pay it forward' means repaying a good deed how?

A) By doing a kindness for someone else

B) By repaying the original benefactor double

C) By thanking the benefactor publicly

D) By donating to charity in their name

Answer · why

A) By doing a kindness for someone else

By doing a kindness for someone else, you keep the chain moving: the phrase was probably coined by a novelist whose narrator says of a great-aunt's de...