Can you name the Bank Holidays (England and Wales)?

Date	Holiday
January 1st
The Friday before Easter Sunday
The day after Easter Sunday
First Monday in May
Last Monday in May
Last Monday in August
December 25th
December 26th

Javascript is not currently enabled on your browser.
If you do have Javascript enabled:
This site uses javascript to make the magic happen.
Please turn on javascript and reload this page, or use a more current browser (like Firefox)

Bank Holidays (U.K.) Quiz

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: September 2nd, 2008
Category: Holiday
Plays: 42,613

Tags: date, England, bank, wale, Bank Holidays, uk pack

Loading friend results....

	jon:	Nov 27th, 2008 at 22:28 GMT	13 points
	The second May one is traditionally known as the Whitsun holiday. Dont know many people who call it anything else!

	iamthedancefloor:	Dec 10th, 2008 at 17:24 GMT	4 points
	Yeah, it's only really called Spring Bank Holday in schools.

	jen:	Jan 6th, 2009 at 16:33 GMT	3 points
	the holiday in August is not called summer bank holiday. Generally known as late summer bank holiday.

	leSporc:	Jan 18th, 2009 at 16:59 GMT	7 points
	i completely agree, i couldn't get "summer" and "spring" bank holidays until i cheated and read the comments. suggest that Whitsun be put as an alternative answer for spring bank holiday.

	archicello:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 15:10 GMT	13 points
	4/8, but im from the US. I think the US/UK should pool their holidays. I want more mondays off :D.

	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 01:30 GMT	2 points
	pretty similar to the US bank holidays

	bleech128:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 17:46 GMT	5 points
	yeah i agree with archicello, i always have a "case of the Mondays" (from Office Space)

	lavraiemusicienne:	Apr 27th, 2009 at 18:59 GMT	5 points
	or, if you can't name the holiday you don't get it?! us sporclers will be fine.

Comment below threshold: show it

	Dani:	May 7th, 2009 at 16:34 GMT	6 points
	What is "Boxing Day?" I know Canada has one, too, and I've always wondered...

	help1234:	May 18th, 2009 at 19:56 GMT	2 points
	Its not Spring Bank holiday its Whitson. People only call it that because of schools and they are too stupid to know the proper name.

	lulubelles:	May 25th, 2009 at 16:18 GMT	8 points
	Took me ages to figure out an alternative name for whitsun, please sort it sporcle! I always thought 'Boxing day' was named after the practice of taking unwanted gifts or leftovers to the poor in boxes, or maybe it's just families having a punch up over the charades. Who knows!!!

	ruth:	May 27th, 2009 at 15:34 GMT	7 points
	hi, don't usually comment much, but i would say it was whitsun and august bank holiday - never heard anything else. @dani: i think it's called that because on the day after christmas churches used to open the collection boxes and hand out the money to the poor. but there are lots of different explanations.

	foyherald:	Jun 9th, 2009 at 11:22 GMT	1 point
	When I was growing up the holiday in late May was known as the Queens Birthday holiday, as the holiday was established in Queen Victorias time, and then remained as the Monarchs official birthday.

	Alexis:	Jun 27th, 2009 at 03:37 GMT	3 points
	According to the UK Government (and my calendar) "May Day" is formally known as "Early May Bank Holiday". This should be an accepted answer. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/LivingintheUK/DG_073741

	peaceanddoug:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 17:36 GMT	2 points
	why doesn't it accept 'spring' or summer'?

	RunHardTurnLeft:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 02:13 GMT	0 points
	American here only got 4/8. I knew boxing day cause its in Canada as well and its my mom's bday.

	misc:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 19:50 GMT	4 points
	wow don't you have boxing day in america? I assumed everyone called it that haha. Do you still get the day after xmas off? I couldn't cope with going straight back to work the next day

	mhrjh14:	Jan 3rd, 2010 at 17:07 GMT	3 points
	May has always been Whit Monday(not to be confused with Whitsun, though sometimes called that as that means Whit Sunday!) and August was known as August bank holiday back when I was a lass!

	The_Snakes:	Feb 22nd, 2010 at 19:42 GMT	-1 points
	Boxing day is so called because of all the fistfights between drunken relatives.

	A_Trep:	Apr 7th, 2010 at 13:28 GMT	1 point
	@misc: No, government employees in the USA are expected back at work on the day after Christmas. However, we do have ten bank holidays to the British eight so I guess it evens out somewhat.

	itsnotme:	Jul 31st, 2010 at 09:58 GMT	-2 points
	Whitsun / Whit are very old-fashioned terms for the Spring bank holiday - it's not generally been referred to as Whitsun since the 1970s. It's been called the Spring Bank Holiday for years.

	lpw88:	Sep 7th, 2010 at 09:46 GMT	2 points
	@thesnakes the title of the quiz is bank holidays ENGLAND & WALES. not the UK

	Pogues:	Sep 27th, 2010 at 20:42 GMT	-3 points
	Can't please the Brits. They complain about quizzes being too Ameri-centric. Then they complain about bank holiday names in their own lands. YEESH!

	dancingmum:	Mar 30th, 2011 at 23:19 GMT	1 point
	Luckily I was just working on a timetable for a friend for next term, so learnt the names of the 2 bank holidays in May. I'd forgotten that the Spring Bank Holiday used to be known as Whitsun. Thanks, I enjoyed this one :) Nice not to have to stress to get the answers in time!

	glitch200x:	May 29th, 2011 at 00:07 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, I'd suggest accepting "May Day" as "Mayday" though, that one really frustrated me. Other than that, really good