You are here: Quizzes - January Quizzes
Welcome to our January Quiz
Quiz I
- January Jones is an actress best known for portraying Betty Draper in which American TV series?
- Which astrological sign is between January 21st and February 20th?
- In Roman mythology, January is named after which god of beginnings and transitions?
- On the 15th of January 1559 who was crowned monarch of England?
- What is January's birthstone? (Hint: the name comes from the 14th century English word meaning 'dark red')
- What is the common name for Galanthus nivalis, which flowers between January and April?
- Which date in January is the traditional date for the feast of Epiphany?
- January replaced which month as the first month of the Roman year?
- Which American federal holiday is observed on the third Monday of January each year?
- Margaret Thatcher Day is the 10th of January in which part of the world?
- Sometimes known as a gilliflower which flower is a January birth flower?
- Which British musician, born in 1947, shares his January the 8th birthday with Elvis, Stephen Hawking and dictator Kim Jong-Un?
- A Burns supper is normally held on the poet's birthday on which date in January?
- What happened on 22 January, 1901?
- On precisely which date did the Victorians celebrate the start of the twentieth century, the 1st of January, 1900, or the 1st of January 1901?
- Which world city's name means "River of January"?
- Who stars as Nick Starkey, a smart ex-NYPD detective in the 1989 comedy-thriller film, The January Man?
- On the 17th of January in which year did Captain Robert Falcon Scott reach the South Pole?
- Who, in January 1649, did the courts deem a "tyrant, traitor, murderer and enemy of the people"?
- Up Helly Aa is a festival held to mark the end of the yule season on the last Tuesday in January in which Scottish town?
- What is the month of January in German?
Answers:
- Mad Men
- Aquarius
- Janus
- Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn)
- Garnet
- Snowdrop
- January 6th
- March
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Falkland Islands
- Carnation
- David Bowie
- 25th of January
- Death of Queen Victoria
- 1st of January 1901
- Rio de Janeiro
- Kevin Kline
- 1912
- King Charles I
- Lerwick (the largest town on the Shetland Islands)
- Januar (the 'y' drops off)