What is Sunday?
A: Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday.
In most Western countries, Sunday is a day of what?
A: A day of rest and a part of the weekend.
In much of the rest of the world, it is considered
what?
A: The first day of the week.
For most of Christianity, Sunday is generally observed
as a day of worship and rest, recognizing it as what?
A: The Lord's Day and the day of Christ's resurrection.
In the United States, Canada, China, Japan, the
Philippines as well as in
South America, Sunday is what?
A: The first day of the week.
Quaker Christians call Sunday the "what" in accordance
with their testimony of simplicity?
A: First day.
The International Organization for Standardization ISO
8601, which is based in Switzerland, calls Sunday what?
A: The seventh day of the week.
Sunday is named after what?
A: The Sun
The name "Sunday", the day of the Sun, is derived from
what?
A: Hellenistic astrology.
During the 1st and 2nd century, the week of seven days
was introduced into Rome from where?
A: Egypt.
The Roman names of the planets were given to what?
A: Each successive day.
Germanic peoples seem to have adopted the week as a
division of time from whom?
A: The Romans.
In most Indian languages, the word for Sunday is what?
A: Ravivāra or Adityavāra.
What is the Russian word for Sunday?
A: Воскресенье (Voskreseniye) meaning "Resurrection".
The international standard ISO 8601 for representation
of dates and times, states what?
A: That Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week.
This method of representing dates and times
unambiguously was first published in what year?
A: 1988.
In the Persian calendar, Sunday is which day of the
week?
A: The second day of the week.
However, it is called “number one” as counting starts
from where?
A: Zero; the first day - Saturday - is denoted as day zero.
In Roman culture, Sunday was the day of what?
A: Sun god.
In pagan theology, the Sun was the source of what?
A: Life, giving warmth and illumination to mankind.
A similar consideration may have influenced the choice
of the Christmas date on the day of the winter solstice, whose celebration
was part of what?
A: The Roman cult of the Sun.
In the same vein, Christian churches have been built
and are still being built (as far as possible) with an orientation so that
the congregation faced toward what?
A: The sunrise in the East.
On 7 March 321, Constantine I, Rome's first Christian
Emperor decreed that Sunday would be observed as what?
A: The Roman day of rest.
Despite the official adoption of Sunday as a day of
rest by Constantine, the seven-day week and the nundial cycle continued to
be used side by side until when?
A: At least the Calendar of 354 and probably later.
A minority of Christians do not regard the day they
attend church as what?
A: Important, so long as they attend.
Many Christians today observe Sunday as a day of what?
A: Church-attendance.
In the United States and Canada, most government
offices are closed on what?
A: Both Saturday and Sunday.
The practice of offices closing on Sunday in government
and in some rural areas of the United States stem from a system of what?
A: Blue laws.
Blue laws were established in the early puritan days
which forbade what?
A: Secular activities on Sunday and were rigidly enforced.
In 1985, twenty-two states in which religious
fundamentalism remained strong maintained what?
A: General restrictions on Sunday behavior.
Many countries, particularly in Europe such as Sweden,
France, Germany and
Belgium, but also in other countries such as
Peru, hold
their national and local elections on what?
A: A Sunday, either by law or by tradition.
Many American and British daily newspapers publish a
larger edition on Sundays, which often includes what?
A: Color comic strips, a magazine, and a coupon section.