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WorksheetsRotary Awareness Practice Quiz
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How many people attended the first Rotary meeting on Thursday evening, February 23, 1905?
a)
4
b)
100
c)
1000
d)
10,000
2.
What was the first Rotary Club community project?
a)
A “comfort station” in downtown Chicago.
b)
A park for children
c)
Feeding the hungry
d)
Distributing books
3.
What is another name for a comfort station?
a)
Cafeteria
b)
Restroom
c)
Gym
d)
Rest stop
4.
Who can you blame for introducing singing to Rotary Club meetings and what was his profession?
a)
Dan Cooms Teacher
b)
Ted Sneesby Manager
c)
Harry Ruggles, printer
d)
Gary Thomas Mechanic
5.
At the third meeting of the group in Chicago that would become Rotary, What name was not considered?
a)
Men With Friends
b)
The Blue Boys
c)
The Conspirators
d)
The Key Club
6.
In what city would the Rotary hold their first meeting?
a)
New York City
b)
Chicago
c)
San Francisco
d)
Dallas
7.
Who was the first president of a Rotary Club?
a)
Silvester Schiele
b)
Paul Harris
c)
William James
d)
Gary Thomas
8.
How much were annual dues at the first Rotary Club?
a)
1.00
b)
10.00
c)
100.00
d)
No Dues
9.
At the first Rotary Convention in 1910, keynote speaker Daniel Cady of the Rotary Club of New York told the audience that Rotary, then with 16 clubs, would have _______ around the world within 80 years.
a)
1,000,000
b)
100
c)
1,000 clubs
d)
100,000
10.
In 1911 Paul Harris gave Chesley Perry a budget of $25.44 to complete a daunting task. What was the task?
a)
To travel arounfd the country spreading the good news about the Rotary.
b)
To write a book about the pamphlet about the Rotary.
c)
To mimeograph and mail a new publication, The National Rotarian, to all 2,000 Rotarians in the 23 clubs nationwide
d)
To travel to Europe to talk about the Rotary.
11.
Engineer and Rotarian Oscar Bjorge, from the Rotary Club of Duluth (Minnesota), was annoyed at the inconsistency of a Rotary symbol, calling it “an insult to engineering.” What did Oscar fix?
a)
Oscar Bjorge redesigned the headquarters in Dallas
b)
Oscar Bjorge took a picture of the symbol and put into the newspaper
c)
Oscar Bjorge standardized the Rotary wheel with 6 spokes, 24 teeth and a keyway “because we are workers and not idlers.
12.
What is the greatest distance from Chicago that a Rotary Club banner has been displayed?
a)
On the space probe navigator in the Alpha Centauri system
b)
Admiral John Chesser from China
c)
Astronaut Frank Borman, of the Rotary Club of Space
13.
What is the largest annual public relations project of Rotary Clubs in the United States and Canada?
a)
A huge banner on Times Square evry New Years Eve
b)
The Rotary float in the Rose Parade is seen by between 250-million and 1-billion people every year.
c)
A commercial every year about the Rotary during the Super Bowl.
14.
In what country was the first Rotary Club outside of the United States?
a)
Russis
b)
China
c)
United Kingdom
d)
Canada
15.
During the Great Depression the Rotary Club of Muncie, Indiana, helped launch The Muncie Plan. What was it?
a)
Met with President Roosevelt about a jobs program
b)
Promoted home improvement to boost sales at struggling hardware stores and reduce the 80 percent unemployment rate among construction workers and tradesmen.
c)
Donate $100,000 to job retraining.
16.
Where and when did RYLA begin?
a)
New York City
b)
London, England
c)
Queensland, Australia
d)
Bejing, China
17.
The RYLA stands for Rotary Youth Leadership Award
a)
True
b)
False
18.
When and where was the first RYLA exchange?
a)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
b)
Moscow (Russian Federation)
c)
Miami (USA
19.
Name the three countries where polio is still endemic.
a)
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria
b)
Russia, China, Ghana
c)
Canada, U.S. France
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