The Post Quiz: October
Created | Updated Sep 30, 2012
What do you know about the tenth month of the year?
The Post Quiz: October
Short answers. (Longer if you like.)
- 'Octo' means 'eight'. October is the tenth month. Who is responsible for this outrage?
- When do the people of Munich start swilling all that beer on the Wies'n?
- Whose October birthday was chosen for the International Day of Non-Violence?
- US citizens all know about Columbus Day, the sometimes-controversial observance of that Italian gentleman's 'discovery' of America. What other great European explorer is honoured in October?
- What do Canadians do in October that people in the US do in November?
- What do Romanians celebrate on 25 October, and why did it happen on this day?
- Speaking of patriotic holidays, what did the Greeks all say on 28 October, 1940?
- Why in the world do people dress up in funny costumes on 31 October? Who started this?
- What significant sound was first heard on 4 October, 1957, and what did it mean?
- Can you name two great Irishmen who were born in October?
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