A QUIZ ON THE AMERICAN FLAG
1.
How many red stripes are there in the United States Flag? __________
2.
How many white stripes are there in the U.S. Flag?
3.
How many long red stripes are there? ______
4.
How many short red stripes are there? ______
5.
Is the stripe at the top red or white? ______
6.
What is the color of the stripe across the bottom? ____
7.
Row many stripes are there altogether? ______
8.
Why do we have this number of stripes? ____________
9.
How many stars were there in our first flag? _________
10.
Underline in this list the original colonies represented on our first
flag:
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina
_________
11.
What is the number of stars in our flag today? __________
12.
Each star has how many points? _______
13.
What is the name given to the blue part of the flag? _______
14.
Give the reason for the number of stars in our flag today? ________
15.
Between what hours should the flag be displayed? _______
16.
When the flag is hoisted or lowered or is passing in a parade, what
should we do? ____________
17.
How should the flag be hoisted? ____________
18.
When did Congress adopt the Stars and Stripes? __________
19.
In what year did Congress pass a law providing that a star be added to
The flag each time a state was admitted to the Union, and that the
flag should have 13 horizontal stripes? ______
20.
In what month and on what day of the month is each new star added?
21.
During what war did our flag have 15 stars and 15 stripes?
22.
What naval hero first hoisted the first flag at sea? ___
23.
At what British port were the Stars and Stripes first shown?
24.
The Navy of what foreign country first saluted our present flag?
__________
25.
What is our National Anthem? ___________________•
26.
27.
By whom was it written? _________________
What does the red in the United States Flag symbolize?
28.
What does the blue in the flag stand for? _________
29.
What is the meaning of the white in our flag?
30.
What day has been set aside for the observance of Flag Day?
******
Happiness is not a matter of good
fortune or worldly possessions.
It's a mental attitude.
It comes
from appreciating what we have,
instead of being miserable about
what we don't have.
It's so simple —
yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
John Luther
"North Dakotans are logically down-to-earth people," he said.
neighbors caring for neighbors."
They are
ANSWERS TO AMERICAN FLAG QUIZ: 1. 7 2. 6 3. 3 4. 4 5. red 6. red
7. 13 8. 13 colonies 9. 13 10. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia 11. 50
12. 5 13. Union 14. states 15. 24 hours with light 16. salute
17. briskly 18. 1777 19. 1818 20. July 4 21. 1812 22. John Paul Jones
23. London 24. France 25. Stars Spangled Banner 26. F.S. Key
27. Courage 28. Loyalty 29. Purity 30. June 14