Happy Labor Day, everyone! Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge about Labor Day, labor-related things and more!

1. Which western U.S. state became the first to officially celebrate Labor Day as an official public holiday, doing so in 1887?
2. What track from the 1987 U2 album The Joshua Tree specifically mentions Labor Day in these lyrics – “A labor day…has come and gone?”
3. Which woman became the first female cabinet member when she was named the head of the Department of Labor in 1933?
4. In which decade was the Department of Labor established?
5. In which Asian country did the Union Carbide industrial disaster occur in December, 1984? As of 2010, it was considered the worst industrial disaster of all time.
6. Within five, in what year did the famous UAW “Sit Down Strike” occur in Flint, MI?
7. Labor Day was officially established as a federal holiday in 1894. Who was president when it was established?
8. Which industrial disaster occurred first – the Union Carbide disaster – or the Chernobyl nuclear disaster? For a bonus point, in what year did the Chernobyl disaster occur?
9. Labor Day is traditionally celebrated the first Monday in September in the U.S. In which month is International Workers’ Day celebrated?
10. Jeremy Corbyn has been the head of what political party in the United Kingdom since 2015?

TIEBREAKER QUESTIONS

What was the total death toll of the Union Carbide industrial disaster?

In what year did construction begin on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?

In what year was Grover Cleveland born?

How many years were there between the year Grover Cleveland was born and the year the “Sit Down Strike” occurred?

To the nearest 10 million, what is the current population of Ukraine?