Boxing Day Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Practice

16. On Boxing Day 1898, Pierre and Marie Curie announced to the French Academy of Sciences that they had discovered which radioactive chemical element?

1. Uranium
2. Thorium
3. Plutonium
4. Radium

17. On Boxing Day, costumed Gombey dancers perform through which mid-Atlantic island (which is a British Overseas Territory)?

1. Turks and Caicos Islands
2. Montserrat
3. British Virgin Islands
4. Bermuda

18. On Boxing Day, it is traditional to give presents to people who have rendered a service in the past year. People who work in which of the following professions would not be given a present on Boxing Day?

1. mail carrier
2. doorman
3. porter
4. Lawyer

19. Some historians think that Boxing Day was created to give servants a day off so they could go see their families. In the past, what did employers give their servants on Boxing Day?

1. gift boxes
2. cakes
3. ribbons
4. money

20. St Stephens Day is celebrated in Sweden with a game of bandy, but what is bandy?

1. A game played on ice with sticks and a ball
2. A tabletop game involving moving coins
3. A version of football but with four nets

21. The Junkanoo street parade takes place on Boxing Day on which island nation of the West Indies?

1. Barbados
2. Dominican Republic
3. The Bahamas
4. Saint Lucia

22. What major holiday does Boxing Day follow?

1. Easter
2. Christmas
3. Bonfire night
4. Queens birthday

23. What sport was traditionally played on Boxing Day before it was banned?

1. polo
2. horse racing
3. fox hunting
4. cricket

24. What was once a popular way to mark Boxing Day in Ireland?

1. Hunting deer
2. Hunting wren
3. Hunting mice

25. Which actor, best known for his role in Game Of Thrones, was born on Boxing Day 1986?

1. Rory McCann
2. Richard Madden
3. Kit Harington
4. Alfie Allen

26. Which American president passed away on Boxing Day 1972?

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. Harry S. Truman
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Lyndon B. Johnson

27. Which American president passed away on Boxing Day 2006?

1. Lyndon B. Johnson
2. Gerald Ford
3. Richard Nixon
4. Ronald Reagan

28. Which Chinese revolutionary and founder of the Peoples Republic of China was born on Boxing Day 1893?

1. Zhou Enlai
2. Deng Xiaoping
3. Chiang Kai-shek
4. Mao Zedong

29. Which English mathematician and inventor of the Differential Machine (a precursor to the computer) was born on Boxing Day 1791?

1. Alan Turing
2. Ada Lovelace
3. Charles Babbage
4. Ernest Rutherford

30. Which former Yugoslavian country celebrates Independence and Unity Day on Boxing Day, to commemorate the result of the independence referendum held in the country in 1990?

1. Macedonia
2. Slovenia
3. Croatia
4. Montenegro