U.S. Flag Etiquette
Unless it is illuminated, the flag should be displayed from this time until this time.
What is dawn to dusk?
On October 1, 1903, the first ever game of this baseball championship began.
What is the World Series? The Boston Americans (now the Boston Red Sox) defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the seven-game series.
What fun it is to jump in a pile of these!
What are leaves?
Water boils at this temperature at sea level.
What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit (or 100 degrees Celsius)? The boiling point decreases at higher altitudes.
Mandarin, navel, and blood.
What are oranges? Oranges are the world’s largest fruit crop.
When a state flag is flown on the same pole as the U.S. flag, this flag should be on top.
What is U.S. flag?
October 19, 1987, will forever be known by this name because the stock market sustained the largest percentage drop ever.
What is Black Monday? The DOW dropped 23 percent, and leading international stock exchanges across the globe quickly followed.
It’s refreshing to bob for these on a hot fall day.
What are apples?
This is the largest freshwater lake by surface in the United States and in the world.
What is Lake Superior?
McIntosh, Gala, and Granny Smith.
What are apples?
Washington State grows more than half the apples produced in the United States.
When the United Nations flag is flown alongside the U.S. flag, the U.N. flag should never be flown at this height, except at the U.N. headquarters.
What is above the U.S. flag?
On October 28, 1965, this monument, known as the Gateway to the West, was finished.
What is the St. Louis Arch? It is the tallest arch in the world. It memorializes Lewis and Clark’s expedition, which began in St. Louis.
Small-town fall festivals offer these rides on the back of a truck.
What are hayrides?
The Sea of Tranquility is located here.
What is on the moon? It’s where Apollo 11 landed.
Meyer, Eureka, and Lisbon.
What are lemons?
When the flag is no longer fit to be flown or displayed, this is the preferable method for destroying it.
What is burning? In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that desecrating the flag was not unconstitutional, and thereby legal.
On October 30, 1974, the boxing event known as “The Rumble in the Jungle” took place in Zaire between two big names. Name one of them.
Who are Muhammad Ali and George Foreman? Ali won the fight. Both men have won Olympic gold medals.
It can take hours to find your way out of a maze through this crop.
What is corn? Average corn mazes take 45 minutes to two hours to complete.
This popular soft drink was once a medication.
What is Coke (or Coca-Cola)?
White, pink, and star ruby.
What are grapefruits? Did you know that many grapefruit varieties, such as pomelos, are a cross between oranges and grapefruits?
When a president or former president dies, the flag is flown at half-mast for this number of days.
What is 30? It is flown at half-mast for 10 days for the vice president, present and retired chief justices of the U.S.Supreme Court, and speaker of the House of Representatives.
On October 3, 1942, the Space Age was launched not by the United States or the Soviet Union, but by this European country.
What is Germany? The Nazis launched the first ballistic missile on that day.
These tiny cabbages are in season in the fall.
What are Brussels sprouts?
Wilson Greatbatch was working on a device to record heartbeats when he accidentally invented this device to regulate heartbeats.
What is pacemaker?
Peaches, apricots, and plums.
What are clingstones? They are called clingstones because the meat clings to the pits.