1. You’re planning a political function, and you want the speaker’s podium to look suitably patriotic. What’s a correct way to decorate the podium and the stage? With an American flag wrapped around the speaker. With red, white and blue-striped bunting, blue stripe on top. With an American flag covering the podium. Two flags crossing on the front of the podium. 2. What does a vexillologist study? Flags Great battles Historical records Great statesmen 3. When the U.S. flag has become so worn and faded that it should no longer be displayed, what is the preferred method of destroying it? It doesn’t matter; it can just be taken out with the trash. It should be ceremonially buried. It should be burned in a dignified way. It shouldn’t be destroyed; take it to a military base for recycling. 4. You’re displaying the US flag on the same flagpole as the flag of another country. Where should the US flag be? At the top of the pole, just above the other flag. Above or below the other flag, depending on whether the other nation belongs to NATO. On a different flagpole – it can’t be flown from the same pole as another national flag. Just below the other flag. 5. When people are buried with military honors, the American flags draping their caskets are buried with them. True False 6. The Continental Congress approved the design of the first official U.S. flag on: July 4, 1776 July 14, 1776 June 14, 1777 August 14, 1778 7. Who gave the flag the nickname, “Old Glory”? George Washington Benjamin Franklin General Ulysses S. Grant Captain Stephen Driver 8. You’re flying an American flag at half staff for a time of mourning. During this grieving period, the flag will never rise to full staff? False True 9. The original American flag has thirteen stars in a circle. The stars, which represent colonies, are in a circle so no colony would be the “first colony”. True False 10. Who is said to have made the first American flag? Martha Washington Betsy Ross Francis Hopkinson Mary Pickersgill Loading … Question 1 of 10
