{"id":582457,"date":"2026-08-04T01:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:42:25","slug":"quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-mondays-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582457\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: How much do you know about Mondays? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Monday is named after the Norse god of – what?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

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\n In the rhyming poem, what is Monday’s Child?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

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\n How many Bank Holiday Mondays are there in Ireland this year?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Shutterstock\n <\/p>\n

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\n What Irish band told us ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ in 1979?\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Boomtown Rats\n <\/p>\n

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\n Hothouse Flowers\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Pogues\n <\/p>\n

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\n Thin Lizzy\n <\/p>\n


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\n Which of these cartoon cats also famously isn’t a fan of Mondays?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Top Cat\n <\/p>\n

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\n Sylvester\n <\/p>\n

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\n Warner Bros\n <\/p>\n

\n Garfield\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Chesire Cat\n <\/p>\n


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\n This is how you say Monday in a number of European languages. Can you spot which one actually says Tuesday?\n <\/p>\n

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\n How much in total market value is estimated to have been lost globally during the ‘Black Monday’ stock market crash in 1987?\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Bangles had a hit with ‘Manic Monday’ in 1984, but which other famous musician wrote the song?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

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\n Blue Monday, also known as the most depressing day of the year, falls on the third Monday of every January. But how did it originate?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

\n A scientific study found it was the day when a person’s brain is officially over the Christmas season\n <\/p>\n

\n The phrase was said during a UK weather report for the wettest January day in history and it stuck\n <\/p>\n

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\n It’s the day New Order released their hit of the same name in 1983\n <\/p>\n

\n It was invented by a psychologist for a travel company to sell more holidays\n <\/p>\n


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\n The Happy Mondays (pictured) do NOT have any songs about Mondays – but do you know the name of their biggest hit?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Alamy\n <\/p>\n

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\n Step Over Here for a Minute, I Would Like a Quick Word\n <\/p>\n


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