Veteran's Day Quiz

How many war veterans are there in the United States?

• 17 million
• 22 million
• 27 million
• 32 million

Veterans Day was originally known as    

• Armistice Day
• Flag Day
• Remembrance Day
• Soldiers Day

Veterans Day is celebrated on Nov. 11 because    

• That's when the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was signed.
• President Woodrow Wilson picked that day from a list of recommendations submitted by the heads of major veterans service organizations.
• Congress wanted the holiday to fall between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.
• None of the above. 

Who first proposed that Armistice Day be renamed Veterans Day?    

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Alvin J. King
• Douglas MacArthur
•  Harry S. Truman

Veterans Day officially acquired its current name in   

• 1954
• 1956 
• 1958
• 1960

What flower is a symbol of Veterans Day?    

• Forget-Me-Not
• Lily
• Poppy
• Rose

The motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs is "To care for him who shall have borne the battle." Who originally wrote these words?   

• Smedley Darlington Butler
•  Abraham Lincoln
• Walt Whitman
• Woodrow Wilson

What patriotic song debuted in its current form on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938?   

• "America, The Beautiful," by Katharine Lee Bates 
• "God Bless America," by Irving Berlin 
• "Spirit of the U.S.A." by E.T. Paull
• "The Yankee Doodle Boy," by George M. Cohan

What percentage of all veterans voted in the 2008 presidential election?   

• 41 percent
• 51 percent
• 61 percent 
• 71 percent 

How many of the 44 U.S. presidents have been veterans?    

• 25
• 28
• 31
• 34