Friday quiz 2023 no. 5 - Wife Day (with answers!)

Dear wifeday-loving patrons! Friday yet again and it's time for a quiz. Since Wife Day will be on Sunday February 19th this year, we'll connect today's quiz to that day.

Wife Day is the first day of góa in the old Nordic calendar (Sunday in the 18th week of winter, between 18th-24th of February). Góa brings growing light.

Even though the words „wife day“ had first become common in the 20th century, it is highly unlikely that it hadn't been already firmly in our language and culture.

The tradition is that husbands give wives flowers on this day and it started in the 1950s, then flowershops started to particularily advertise wifeday-flowers.

On the science website it says: „... the term wife day on the first day of góa became more known after the middle of 19th century, probably from people in Þingey-counties. Oldest example is from Ingibjörg Schulesen, a sheriff's wife in Húsavík, and few decades later it appears in stories by Guðmundur Friðjónsson at Sandur in Aðaldalur Valley. Around 1900 it has become known all over the country and in 1927 it is officially validated to be introduced in the Almanac of the Nation-friends Society (Almanak Þjóðvinafélagsins).“

THE QUIZ (with answers at the end):

Please answer these wifeday-related questions:

1. Did Glenn Close finally receive the Oscar for her performance in the movie The Wife (2017)? (No, unfortunately. The surprise winner was Olivia Colman for The Favorite)
2. Love and crimes (Ást og afbrot) no. 156 is called Eiginkonan in Icelandic. What is the original English title on this love story? (A stranger's wife)
3. Can you find the clear/vague connection of the book Það sem ég hefði viljað vita (What I would have liked to have known, 2022) and the Wife Day? (Edda Falak is the author of this book and she has a podcast which in Icelandic is called „Eigin konur“, similar to „eiginkonur“ (wives) who we are celebrating this day)
4. On what weekday will Wife Day be in 2029? (Trick question, because Wife Day is always on the same weekday: Sunday!)
5. What do these women, Virginia Cherrill, Barbara Hutton, Betsy Drake, Dyan Cannon and Barbara Harris all have in common? (They were all wives of the late and great actor, Cary Grant)

Have a great weekend! And congratulations in advance to all the wives on next Sunday!