Born on July 4th
Oldest First Daughter of our 44th President of the United States and attended Harvard University?
a. Malia Obama
b. Ivanka Trump
Who is Malia Obama
Born in 1998 in Chicago; parents: Barack and Michelle Obama
What Country invented Fireworks?
a. China
b. Japan
c. United States
What is China - Around 200 BC, the Chinese unintentionally invented firecrackers by tossing bamboo into fire, but it took another thousand years before true fireworks came alive. As the story goes, around 800 AD, an alchemist mixed sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (a food preservative) hoping to find the secret to eternal life
What is the name of the American "Uncle" that many symbolize for the U.S.? Famous quote: "I want you"
a. Uncle John
b. Uncle Sam
Who is Uncle Sam
What is considered the most American dessert?
a. Popsicles
b. Apple pie
What is Apple Pie
Americans typically eat 150 million of these on the 4th of July?
a. cheeseburgers!
b. hot dogs!
What is Hot Dogs - enough to stretch from D.C. to L.A. more than five times
He invented the first traffic signal because he saw two cars crash.
a. Thomas Edison
b. Garett Morgan
Who is Garett Morgan
Rapper with hit songs Circles and Rockstar, and he has multiple tattoos on his face?
a. Snoop Dogg
b. Post Malone
Who is Post Malone - born: 1995, born in New York State and grew up in Grapevine, TX
On the original U.S. Flag, in what shape were the stars laid out?
a. a circle
b. a triangle
What is a circle
Who ruled England when the Colonies established independence?
a. King John
b. King George III
Who is King George III
What bird did Benjamin Franklin want as the National Bird? (Hint: it actually is for another late Fall Holiday)
a. Chicken
b. Turkey
What is a Turkey
Favorite fruit with seeds or can be seedless that Americans love to eat on Independence Day? Green on the outside and red and juicy on the inside
a. grapes
b. watermelon
What is Watermelon
When was the first 4th of July celebration held at the White House?
a. July 4th, 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was president
b. July 4th, 1776
July 4th, 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was president
Who was the 30th president of the United States?
a. Henry Ford
b. Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, born in 1872
When did Congress declare the 4th of July a Federal Holiday?
a. 1776
b. 1870
What is 1870
Who sewed the first American flag?
a. Francine Smith
b. Betsy Ross
Who is Betsy Ross
Who has the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?
a. Alexander Hamilton
b. John Hancock
Who is John Hancock - he was the first one to sign it
What company is the largest consumer of fireworks in the World? Typically displayed over a Castle
a. Universal
b. Walt Disney
What is the Walt Disney Company
How many original copies of the Declaration of Independence are believed to have been printed?
a. 150
b. 200
200
Which Jersey Shore star has a 4th of July birthday?
a. DJ Pauly D
b. Mike Sorrentino
Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino
Why is the Liberty Bell tapped 13 times on the 4th of July?
a. to honor the 13 original colonies
b. because of the 13 Founding Fathers
What is: to honor the 13 original Colonies - descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence are the actual people who tap it
Which city hosted the first official Independence Day celebration on July 4, 1777?
a. New York
b. Philadelphia
What is Philadelphia
Why was the bald eagle chosen as America's national bird?
a. it's been used as a symbol of power since Roman times
b. it only lives in the United States
The bald eagle was chosen because of its association with authority and statehood in fact, the eagle had been used as a symbol of governmental power since Roman times.
Famed department store fireworks show in New York City that is broadcasted across America each Independence Day?
a. Sears
b. Macy's
What is Macy's - they use more than 75,000 fireworks shells each year and costs about $6 million (possibly more)
James Madison was a major contributor to which critical United States document?
a. Declaration of Independence
b. the Constitution
The Constitution
Singer of hits like "Lean on Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine" ...
a. Louie Armstrong
b. Bill Withers
Bill Withers, born in 1938
Which 3 Presidents and all were Founding Fathers, died on July 4th?
a. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe
b. Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln
Who are: John Adams (3rd President in 1826 at 90), Thomas Jefferson (2nd President in 1826 at 83), and James Monroe (4th President in 1831 at 73)
American composer behind the well known patriotic song, Stars and Stripes Forever and played yearly on the 4th and a symbol for the 4th of July?
a. Francis Scott Key
b. John Philip Sousa
Who is John Philip Sousa - written in 1896, not in the aftermath of a great battle, but on an ocean liner, as Sousa and his wife were returning from a European vacation. He wrote more than 135 marches and dozens of other works, including operettas, songs and suites.
What does the Stars and Stripes on the American Flag represent?
a. 50 states and the 13 colonies
b. 13 states and 50 colonies
What is the 50 states (stars) and 13 original colonies (stripes)
Why is One World Trade Center in New York City 1,776 feet tall?
a. to mark the year the U.S. declared independence
b. just because!
What is to mark the year the U.S. declared its independence from Britain.
Who was the last of the Founding Fathers to be president?
a. George Washington
b. James Monroe
James Monroe