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50 free Days of the Week trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Every weekday carries a god, a planet or a piece of history in its name. This quiz walks through Monday to Sunday: the Norse and Roman deities behind the names, the languages that just count the days instead, and the famous dates that borrowed a weekday for themselves, from Black Tuesday in 1929 to Cyber Monday and Wednesday Addams. Expect trivia about Tuesday, Mondays, Fridays and weekends in general: Super Tuesday, Blue Monday, Taco Tuesday, Friday the 13th, Maundy Thursday and the five-day workweek. Fifty questions, answers explained, free to play or print.
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Q 01Tuesday is named after Tiw, a one-handed Germanic god associated with what?
Single combat and pledges
Tiw (Norse Tyr) was equated with Mars, which is why Romance languages name the day after the Roman war god.
Q 02In Latin, Tuesday was dies Martis, the day of which Roman god?
Mars
Italian martedì and Spanish martes keep the Roman war god; English swapped in his Germanic counterpart Tiw.
Q 03The German word for Tuesday, Dienstag, comes from which Germanic institution?
An assembly
Tiw had a strong connection to the thing, the Germanic governing assembly, so German and Dutch named the day after the meeting rather than the god.
Q 04In Japanese, Tuesday is kayōbi, named after which planet?
Mars
Kasei, the 'fire star', is Mars, so Japanese and Korean both call Tuesday the fire day.
Q 05In Greek the name for Tuesday, Triti, literally means what?
The third
Greeks count the day as the third of the week, which feeds the local superstition that bad luck comes in threes, especially on the 13th.
Q 06Super Tuesday is the day when the most US states hold what?
Presidential primaries
It falls in February or March of an election year, and the set of states taking part changes from cycle to cycle.
Q 07In 2023 a Wyoming-based fast-food chain abandoned its federal trademark on which phrase?
Taco Tuesday
Taco John’s had held the registration since 1989 and gave it up in July 2023 after Taco Bell petitioned to cancel it.
Q 08After the Wyoming chain gave up that trademark in 2023, which state still had it registered?
New Jersey
A restaurant called Gregory's registered the phrase with the state of New Jersey back in 1982.
Q 09Shrove Tuesday takes its name from 'shrive', a word meaning what?
Absolve
Christians traditionally confessed on the day to be shriven before Lent; the pancakes came from using up eggs, milk and butter.
Q 10What does the word ‘Gras’ in Mardi Gras mean?
Fat
It was the last day for rich, fatty foods before the Lenten fast; in Italy the day is Martedì Grasso.
Q 11Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' software updates land on which Tuesday of the month?
The second
Microsoft formalized the schedule in October 2003; the day after is jokingly called Exploit Wednesday.
Q 12'Black Tuesday', October 29, 1929, saw roughly how many shares traded on Wall Street?
16.4 million
Black Thursday five days earlier had set a record of 12.9 million shares; the Tuesday collapse became the crash's defining day.
Q 13Tuesdays with Morrie recounts Mitch Albom's visits to a dying professor from which university?
Brandeis
Albom reconnected with Morrie Schwartz after seeing him interviewed by Ted Koppel on Nightline in 1995.
Q 21The Bangles' 'Manic Monday' was written by which star under the pseudonym 'Christopher'?
Prince
It reached number two in the US, held off the top spot by Prince's own 'Kiss'.
Q 22Monday Night Football originally aired on which network from 1970 to 2005?
ABC
It moved exclusively to sister network ESPN in 2006 and returned to ABC simulcasts in 2020.
Q 23Before the October 1987 ‘Black Monday’ crash, what peak had the Dow reached that August?
2,722
The Dow Jones had climbed from 776 in August 1982 to 2,722 in August 1987 before the global sell-off.
Garfield, the cat famous for hating Mondays, was first published locally under what title?
Q 14GivingTuesday was launched in 2012 at which New York institution?
The 92nd Street Y
Henry Timms started it with the United Nations Foundation as co-founder, a week after Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Q 15Actress Tuesday Weld was born with which first name?
Susan
Born Susan Ker Weld in Manhattan in 1943, she adopted the weekday as a stage name and retired from acting.
Q 16On 'Ruby Tuesday' by the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones plays a countermelody on what?
Alto recorder
Bill Wyman fingered the double bass while Keith Richards bowed it; the song was released in January 1967.
Q 17Monday's name comes from the Old English for the day of what?
The moon
Mōnandæg translated Latin dies Lunae; Japanese and Korean also call Monday the moon day.
Q 18Under the ISO 8601 standard, Monday is which day of the week?
The first
ISO 8601 starts the week on Monday, while the US, Canada, Japan and many calendars treat Sunday as day one.
Q 19'Blue Monday', supposedly the year's most depressing day, was named in 2005 by which company?
Sky Travel
Psychologist Cliff Arnall supplied the formula for the travel agency's press release; the first Blue Monday was 24 January 2005.
Q 20Who coined the term 'Cyber Monday' in a November 2005 press release?
Ellen Davis (NRF)
Research from 2004 had shown the Monday after Thanksgiving was one of the biggest online shopping days, so the NRF gave it a name.
Jon
Jim Davis ran the strip as Jon in 1976, renamed it Garfield in 1977, and it went into national syndication in 1978.
Q 25Whit Monday is the public holiday celebrated the day after which Christian feast?
Pentecost
Whitsunday is an English name for Pentecost, which always falls on a Sunday.
Q 26Wednesday takes its name from Woden, the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of which Norse god?
Odin
The Romans read Woden as their Mercury, so French mercredi and Spanish miércoles keep the messenger god.
Q 27Ash Wednesday marks the first day of which season?
Lent
The ashes placed on foreheads are made by burning palm leaves kept from the previous year's Palm Sunday.
Q 28Charles Addams named Wednesday Addams after a line from which nursery rhyme?
Monday's Child
The characters were nameless in The New Yorker cartoons; the 1964 TV series needed names, and 'Wednesday's child is full of woe' fit.
Q 29Who plays the title role in the Netflix series Wednesday?
Jenna Ortega
Tim Burton directed four episodes of each season; the show became Netflix's second-most-watched English-language series within three weeks.
Q 30Thursday is named for the Germanic thunder god equated with which Roman deity?
Jupiter
Latin Iovis dies survives as Italian giovedì and French jeudi, while Germanic languages kept Thor, as in Donnerstag.