Veterans Day Quiz (PBS News Hour)

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 organizationsn.

• Congress wanted the holiday to fall between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.

• An Armistice was signed in the 11th hour of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918.

Who moved Veterans Day from October to November in 1975?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Gerald Ford

• Douglas MacArthur

• Harry S. Truman

Veterans Day officially acquired its current name from Congress 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

8. 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

The Missing Man Table is also know as

• The Military Table

• The Patriot Blue Table

• The Fallen Heroes Table

• America's White Table

How many of the 46 U.S. presidents have been veterans?

• 25

• 28

• 31

• 37

How is Veterans Day different from Memorial Day?

• Veterans Day celebrates the living and those who passed away.

• Memorial Day celebrates only the living.