Q 01/05

Which Monday of February is Presidents' Day?

A) 1st

B) 2nd

C) 3rd

D) 4th

Answer · why

C) 3rd

3rd: that Monday always arrives before Washington's real birthday comes round, so the holiday held in his honour can never fall on the day itself.

Q 02/05

Which 1794 agreement with Britain did Washington back despite French Revolution tensions?

A) Pinckney's Treaty

B) Jay Treaty

C) Treaty of Ghent

D) Treaty of Paris

Answer · why

B) Jay Treaty

Jay Treaty: Chief Justice John Jay sailed to London and settled quarrels left over from independence. The deal proved unpopular with the American publ...

Q 03/05

The 1879 Washington's Birthday holiday covered federal workers only where?

A) The capital

B) New York

C) Virginia

D) Military posts

Answer · why

A) The capital

The capital alone: the first law covered only federal offices in the District of Columbia. Congress extended it to federal workers everywhere in 1885.

Q 04/05

Which 1968 law gave federal workers a three-day weekend in February?

A) Federal Holidays Act

B) Three-Day Weekend Act

C) National Observances Act

D) Uniform Monday Holiday Act

Answer · why

D) Uniform Monday Holiday Act

Uniform Monday Holiday Act: its backers argued that more long weekends would lift trade and spare business and labour the cost of midweek shutdowns.

Q 05/05

Which president signed the 1968 law that turned Washington's Birthday into a long weekend?

A) Eisenhower

B) Kennedy

C) Johnson

D) Nixon

Answer · why

C) Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill in June 1968, but it did not take effect until 1971. So the first of the new long weekends arrived under his success...