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Veterans Day Quiz (PBS News Hour)

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Veterans Day was originally known as

a)

Armistice Day

b)

Flag Day

c)

Remembrance Day

d)

Soldiers Day

2.

Veterans Day is celebrated on Nov. 11 because

a)

That's when the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was signed.

b)

President Woodrow Wilson picked that day from a list of recommendations submitted by the heads of major veterans service organizationsn.

c)

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

d)

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

3.

Who moved Veterans Day from October to November in 1975?

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

Douglas MacArthur

d)

Harry S. Truman

4.

Veterans Day officially acquired its current name from Congress in

a)

1954

b)

1956

c)

1958

d)

1960

5.

What flower is a symbol of Veterans Day?

a)

Forget-Me-Not

b)

Lily

c)

Poppy

d)

Rose

6.

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

a)

Smedley Darlington Butler

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Woodrow Wilson

7.

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

a)

"America, The Beautiful," by Katharine Lee Bates

b)

"God Bless America," by Irving Berlin

c)

"Spirit of the U.S.A." by E.T. Paull

d)

"The Yankee Doodle Boy," by George M. Cohan

8.

The Missing Man Table is also know as

a)

The Military Table

b)

The Patriot Blue Table

c)

The Fallen Heroes Table

d)

America's White Table

9.

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

a)

25

b)

28

c)

31

d)

37

10.

How is Veterans Day different from Memorial Day?

a)

Veterans Day celebrates the living and those who passed away.

b)

Memorial Day celebrates only the living.

11.

How many war veterans are there in the United States?

a)

17 million

b)

23 million

c)

27 million

d)

32 million

12.

The Code Talkers of WWII belonged to the

a)

Cherokee Nation

b)

Navajo Nation

c)

Comanche Nation