Public holidays are always great, but it’s important to know what we’re actually celebrating. Today, we celebrate Malta’s Independence Day, and even though the history behind this special day doesn’t include alien motherships and Will Smith, it’s still a very rich and eventful one.

Whether you’d like to brush up on your Maltese history or you think you know everything there is to know about 21st September, here’s a quick Independence Day quiz for you.

Be warned: some questions are devilishly simple, while others are quite tricky.

Good luck!

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David Grech Urpani

Lovin Malta's Head of Content, Dave has been in journalism for the better half of the last decade. Prefers Instagram, but has been known to doomscroll on TikTok. Loves chicken, women's clothes and Kanye West (most of the time).