The date the United States celebrates Independence Day.
What is July 4?
100
One of the people credited with making the first flag.
Who is Betsy Ross, or Francis Hopkinson?
There is no confirmed answer
100
True or False: It is never OK to fly a flag upside down.
What is false? It is OK when you are in distress or danger
100
The original 13 colonies.
What do the stripes on the flag represent?
100
The proper pace to raise and lower the flag.
What is raise it fast, and slowly lower it down?
200
The date that we celebrate Flag Day.
What is June 14?
200
Writer of the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
200
True or False: It is not OK to fly a flag at night.
What is false? It is OK to fly the flag at night if it is properly lit.
200
These are represented by the stars on the flag.
What are the 50 states?
200
It is what we call the blue part of the flag.
What is the Union?
300
The year the Continental Congress approved the design of the first official U.S. flag?
What is 1777?
300
Our 34th president, who also established Flag Day, established rules for the size of flags, clarified how and when to fly a flag at half-staff, and approved our most recent flag design.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
True or False: The flag should be flown at half staff when your favorite team loses the Superbowl.
What is false? Flags may be flown at half staff to show sorrow and mourning following a national tragedy, the death of a president or other national or state figure, or to honor those who have sacrificed their lives for their country.
300
True or False: The US flag should never touch the ground.
What is true? You should take care to never let the flag touch the ground, but you do not need to retire a flag if it has touched the ground.
300
This is known as properly retiring the flag.
What is burning in a respectful ceremony after the flag becomes no longer presentable?
400
The year the Constitution of the United States was adopted.
What is 1787?
400
Who can order a flag at half mast?
Who is the president, governor, or mayor of Washington DC.
400
True or False: The proper way to display a flag at half staff is to hoist it to the top of the pole, hold for an instant, and then lower it.
What is true?
400
Flags on military uniforms show the union (blue part of the flag) always in front.
How do flags on military uniforms show that the union is always advancing and never retreating?
400
True or false: When carried in a parade, the US flag should be carried to the right of state or local flags.
What is true?
500
The year that our latest flag was adopted and Hawaii became a state.
What is 1960?
500
Designer of our current flag.
Who is Robert Heft?
500
True or False: When properly displayed, the United States flag will appear to be to the left of other state flags.
What is true? The US flag should be on its own right, which will look like it is on the left when an audience is looking at it.
500
True or False: You should not wear clothing decorated to look like the flag.
What is true?
500
The magazine editor, Francis Bellamy, wrote this in 1892 for a nationwide public school celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing.