It Happened on July4
On July 4, 1927, this popular playwright, who penned The Odd Couple and The Goodbye Girl, was born in the Bronx,NY.
Who is Neil Simon
This international humanitarian society is dedicated to relieve human suffering, especially in times of disaster.
The International Red Cross
How many stripes are on the US Flag?
Thirteen (one each for the original colonies)
(1864) For Union and Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
This state's song is "Home on the range," not "Over the Rainbow."
Kansas
On July 4, 1803, Thomas Jefferson announced this territory acquisition, which included over 800,000 square miles of land and cost $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
This infrequent lunar event has become a common term to mean any rare occurence.
What is the preferred method for destroying a tattered flag?
Burning
(1940) Better a third term than a third rater.
Franklin Roosevelt
This is the only state that begins with the letter A but does not end with the letter A.
Arkansas
On Juky4, 1939, this legendary athlete retired from baseball, claiming that he was "the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
Who is Lou Gehrig
What flavor, in hard candies and popsicles for example, is often colored ble?
Raspberry. This is done to help distinguish among strawberry, watermelon, cherry, and raspberry flavors.
What happens to the flag that drapes the coffin at a military funeral?
It is folded and given to the next of kin.
(1928) A chicken in every pot. A car in every garage.
Herbert Hoover
Most people know that Delaware and Rhode Island are the two smallest US states, but what state is in third place?
Connecticut
On July 4, 1826, two of our Founding Fathers both died-one in Virginia, the other in Massachusetts. Can you name them both?
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
There are approximately four billion of these in the human body, includinh lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes, and they are important in protecting the body against infectious disease and foreign entities
White blood cells
Can you name all three nicknames for the US flag?
Old Glory, The Stars and Stripes, and The Star-Spangled Banner
(1964) In your heart you know he's right.
Barry Goldwater. (Humor note: Lyndon Johnson's response to that slogan was: "In your guts, you know he's nuts."
This New England state is almost as large as the other five New England states combined.
Maine
On July4, 1845, this transcendentalist writer began his two-year experiment in living in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts.
Henry David Thoreau
She was the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, covering the people and events of the 1930's and 1940's, from the Dust Bowl, to the liberation of Buchenwald. to the daily life of Mahtma Ghandi.
Margaret Bourke-White
The Grand Union Flag is considered the nation's first flag. It did have thirteen stripes, but no star field. What design did it have in that place? (Hint: it helps to know that this flag was adopted in 1775, before US was an independent nation.)
The Union Jack (which was the flag of Great Britain)
(2008) Country first.
John McCain
Name three of the four states that are officially called commonwealths.
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia