Trivia Questions for Your Labor Day Weekend Party

Labor Day weekend is the final summer holiday weekend. It offers a chance for people to get together for parties and outings for the final time. To go along with those get togethers, this articles offers some trivia questions that you can use. So feel free to run this article article off and put these questions to use for your parties.

The answers are located at the end of the questions.

Questions
1. When was the first Labor Day holiday observed?
2. Where was the first Labor Day holiday observed and how was it observed?
3. In what year did Congress pass a bill making Labor Day a legal holiday to be observed?
4. Which President signed the bill into law, making Labor Day a holiday?
5. What is the average commute time per American when going to work?
6. What State granted individuals first access to the holiday?
7. Labor Day was first established to be used to air out grievances about labor? True/False
8. The eight hour work day was first established in what year?
9. What was the name of the Act that started the Labor Day holiday?
10. What year did the Supreme Court ruling favor of the eight hour work day?

Answers
1. September 5, 1892 2. A parade in New York City 3.1894 4. President Grover Cleveland
5. 24.3 minutes 6. Oregon 1887 7. True 8. 1916 9. The Adamson Act 10. 1917

You can use these Labor Day trivia questions for parties, family games, outings and trivia nights.

Other suggestions
Put the questions in one bowl and the answers in another. Then have your group try to match the up.
Type out the questions and place them at place setting for your meal.
Men versus women trivia question contest.
Rainy Day event on the Labor Day weekend.
Set up a matching type of question contest.
Use them in the school classroom, to give students a better appreciation for the holiday weekend.
Use them with a "Progression dinner". To move on to the next course of food, they have to answer a question.
Which table gets to go first to eat? The first one to successfully answer a question. You can do the same with desert.
You can also use these questions at work the week leading up to the holiday weekend. There are many ways that they could be used at your place of work. Business could even use them with their clients.

Have fun with these questions. However, be safe on the final summer holiday.