May Trivia: Festivals, Flowers, and Famous Dates!

#87 Week 18

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
May 01, 2025

Can you answer questions about what makes May such a lively and important month?

  1. Which Roman goddess is the month of May named after?

  2. Which famous flower is often associated with May Day celebrations in France?

  3. Which famous disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, in New Jersey, leading to the downfall of the airship?

  4. What is the name of the famous film festival held in May in a French city on the Riviera?

  5. Which revolutionary movement arose in Paris in May 1968?

  6. Which famous tennis championship starts in late May?

  7. Which band had a hit with “First of May”?

  8. Which famous American civil rights leader was born on May 19, 1925?

  9. The Empire State Building opened on May 1 in which year? Construction work began: March 17, 1930.

  10. "Maggio" is the word for May in which language?

The Wonder Wall

  • Blue jeans were official invented in May of 1873 after Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis obtained a patent for the pants on May 20th.

  • May was once considered a bad luck month to get married. There is a poem that says “Marry in May and you’ll rue the day.”

  • The first permanent English settlement in America was established on May 24, 1607 in Jamestown, VA.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. What is the name of the author behind The Lord of the Rings?

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a British author, poet, philologist and university professor.

  2. What is the name of the hobbit who in the book The Hobbit finds the ring, and who in The Lord of the Rings still has the ring – the hobbit celebrates his 111th birthday?

    Bilbo Baggins

  3. What is the name of the main character who is tasked with destroying the ring?

    Frodo Baggins

  4. What is the name of the mountain where the ring must be thrown to be destroyed?

    Mount Doom

  5. What is the name of the elven city where Elrond lives?

    Rivendell

  6. What is written on the One Ring?

    "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul." "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

  7. What are the names of the three books that make up The Lord of the Rings?

    The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King

  8. What year was the first film in Peter Jackson's trilogy released?

    2001

  9. What was Gollum's name before he was transformed by the ring?

    Sméagol, who had the ring for about 500 years before. Gollum was a hobbit-like giant (sort of early hobbit)

  10. What is the name of Gandalf's horse?

    Shadowfax