Day of the Week - Friday Trivia Quiz

Answer: he accompanies Crusoe to Europe

According to the original novel, Crusoe encounters cannibals who capture and eat their victims. He helps one such prisoner to escape and names the fellow Friday after the day on which he liberated him. Crusoe then teaches him to speak English and baptizes him into the Christian faith. Crusoe and Friday go to Europe on an English ship. Friday remains his companion throughout.

Answer: the newspaper business

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in Howard Hawks' adaptation of "Front Page" as a movie. In Hecht and Macarthur's play, newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson is a man. Hawks changed the gender of the character to great success. There had been an earlier adaptation of the play, under the title "The Front Page" (1931) in which Johnson remained male.

The chemistry between Grant and Russell was creative; much of the dialogue in the film is spontaneous and improvised. Quentin Tarantino said that "His Girl Friday" is one of his all-time favourite films.

Answer: loving and giving

Fortune-telling rhymes based on the day of the week on which a child is born have existed in English since the 16th century. The following one was first published in 1838: "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living. And the child born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, good and gay."

Answer: it was necessary to achieve salvation

Reading aloud the story from the Gospels of the arrest, torment, and killing of Jesus of Nazareth strikes no one as "good." Yet annually the Church gathers on the day traditionally held to be the day of the crucifixion, and reads aloud the story. The Christian doctrine of the atonement is difficult to explain in simple terms.

In this context, it means the reconciliation of God and humans accomplished through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus. Exactly how this was accomplished is a matter of great debate but there is no doubt that it is thought to be a good thing, a good work, a good outcome, hence the name of Good Friday.

Answer: Italian

The days of the week in Italian are "lunedì" (Monday), "martedì" (Tuesday), "mercoledì" (Wednesday), "giovedì" (Thursday), "venerdì" (Friday), "sabato" (Saturday), and "domenica" (Sunday).

Other words for Friday are "Petak" (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian), "Divendres" (Catalan), "Fredag" (Danish), "Vrijdag" (Dutch), "Vendredi" (French), "Venres" (Galician), "Freitag" (German), "Venerdì" (Italian), "Freideg" (Luxembourgish), "Sexta-feira" (Portuguese), and "Viernes" (Spanish)

Answer: high school football

H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger took a year's leave of absence from The Philadelphia Inquirer to research "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream." Bissinger lived in Odessa, Texas, and followed the Permian Panthers high school football team, their coaches, parents, and football-crazed community in 1988.

The team took a run at but did not achieve the Texas state championship. The documentary book was adapted to a motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton as the coach. Its success prompted NBC to adapt it to a television series which ran from 2006-2011.

Answer: slept late

There are twelve volumes in Harry Kemelman's series of novels involving Rabbi David Small, the first seven of which are named for the days of the week. The author won the 1965 Edgar Award for the Best First Mystery Novel for the first: "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late." It introduces the rabbi of a Conservative Jewish congregation in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts.

The rabbi himself is a suspect in the murder of a young woman whose body is found on the grounds of the temple. Small uses Talmudic wisdom (especially the ability the see the third side of an argument) to solve the case.

Answer: a female artificial person

In a future in which North America is balkanized into multiple small states, Friday Jones is a genetically-engineered human superior to normally-begotten humans. Because artificial persons are subject to discrimination, she keeps her identity a secret.

Heinlein uses her story to advance his ideas about alternatives to traditional marriage, about how corporations and governments interpenetrate and corrupt one another, and about libertarianism.

Answer: mother and daughter switch bodies

Harper & Row published Mary Rodgers' comedic children's novel "Freaky Friday" in 1972. In 1976, she wrote a screenplay based on her book; the movie starred Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as a mother and daughter who switch bodies on Friday the 13th. The leads were played by Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman in the 1995 made-for-television remake, by Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in the 2003 remake, and Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff in the 2018 made-for-television remake.

Answer: Freya/Frigg

The Ancient Greeks named Friday "hemera Aphrodites" after the goddess Aphrodite. The Ancient Romans called it "dies Veneris" meaning Venus's day. Compare the Modern Italian name for the day: "Venerdi." The Modern English word Friday honours the Anglo-Saxon Teutonic god Frigga and the Norse god Freya, who are comparable deities.

These goddesses are the deities associated with love, fecundity, and beauty. Compare the Modern German word for Friday which is "Freitag."