Mothers Day Quizzes Online & Trivia

This was written by Oscar Wilde. It comes from his play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which is a satire and is absolutely hilarious. Algernon says this particular quote, and it comes as they are talking about Gwendolen after her mother has said that Jack cannot marry her. Some of the best quotes from Oscar Wilde come from this gem of a play. Fun fact about Oscar Wilde: he wrote three plays and one novel that saw success. “The Importance of Being Earnest” was very successful until Wilde himself became part of a scandal and everything of his was shut down. The Victorians did not mess around and risk having their morality plays tainted as being written by immoral people.

The dark history of Mother’s day isn’t as “dark” as some of the other holiday histories that are available. The idea was first coined by Julia Ward Howe and Ann Reeves Jarvis, but celebrations of mothers can be traced back as far as ancient Rome. Mothers have simply been part of history, and so have had their celebrated place as well. After all, the virgin Mary is considered to be the most sacred mother in Catholicism, and there are other examples of venerated mothers in religion. The darkest the history of Mother’s day gets is that Anna Jarvis, the daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, did not like the fact that various commercial companies started to advertise for it once it was added to the list of national holidays. She attempted to get her holiday off their radar, to no avail.

People celebrate Mother’s Day for a variety of reasons. However, one reason it exists is because the card, candy, and other companies caught whiff of the idea, thought it was good, and pushed it on us. Other people celebrate it to give their mother a day of recognition. After all, without our mothers, most of us wouldn’t have been born. While some mothers may not want to be celebrated, other mothers look forward to the day. If the children are not in the home anymore, it’s a good day for the mom because she gets to talk to all her kids on one day, which is most likely a rare occurrence. In all, it’s just a day to remember your mother and what she’s done for her, and give back to her.

The history behind the date of Mother’s day in the USA is pretty simple. It’s on the second Sunday of May because President Woodrow Wilson decided to make it an official national holiday. This was decided in 1914, and it stuck. No one has ever decided not to celebrate on the designated national holiday if they wanted to celebrate. However, as the previous answer has pointed out, the date for Mother’s day is different depending on where you want to celebrate it. A lot of countries have something similar in nature to what is known as Mother’s day in the USA. Not all of them are celebrated in May, and not all of them will be on the second week of a month.

If they could be exhaused, they could hardly be termed 'renewable' now could they? It's a matter of analysing each resource separately and imagining ways in which they could be exhausted. Oxygen. Solar Energy, fresh water etc. It pretty well comes to obliterating life on earth if we imagine ways in which each of these can no longer be renewed, we are describing a situation in which Life as we know it cannot exist.

The correct answer to this question is B, Anna Jarvis. Anna created the day to honor her mother. Named Ann Jarvis, her mother started a committee called "Mother's Friendship Day". She started this committee in 1868 to bring a side of peace to the war, by bringing mothers on both sides of the war together. After her mother passed, Anna sought out to honor mother and the work she had done. Two years after her personal day of observing her mother, the first official Mother's Day was celebrated. This celebration happened in 1908 and it is still celebrated today, in every May of the year.

Mother's Day is always celebrated on the second Sunday in the month of May in the United States. In 2017, Mother's Day was on Sunday, May the 14th. The date can change depending on where you live. In many different Arab countries, Mother's Day is celebrated on March 21st every year. This date is significant because of the Spring equinox. In other countries it was changed to dates that were important to the largest religion, or to other historical dates. In Ireland and in the United Kingdom, the fourth Sunday of the religious month Lent. This can also be called Mothering Sunday. Mother's Day is not a federal holiday in the United States and is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day is openly considered a special day to honor motherhood and all mothers. It is a time to appreciate women who were responsible with raising children and all mothers who sacrificed for their children.

Mother TeresaIn 1948, Mother Theresa established the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman-Catholic congregation of women dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor, especially Indias lowest castes.