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WorksheetsVeterans Day Quiz (PBS News Hour)
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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.
How many war veterans are there in the United States?
17 million
23 million
27 million
32 million
The Code Talkers of WWII belonged to the
Cherokee Nation
Navajo Nation
Comanche Nation
