Presidents
Patriotic Songs
Summer Holidays
Symbols
Military History
Things that happened on July 4th
100
He was the first US President
Who was George Washington?
100
This song is the U.S. National Anthem.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
100
This is the day in which we celebrate America's independence from Britain.
What is July 4th/Independence Day?
100
This U.S. symbol is also called "Old Glory".
What is the U.S. Flag?
100
This seaport was bombed on December 7, 1941 by the Japanese.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
This iconic American statue was presented to the United States by the French in Paris.
A) Lincoln Memorial B) Washington Monument C) St Louis Arch D) Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty!
After the Statue was presented to Levi P Morton, the U.S. minister to France, on July 4, 1884 in Paris, it was disassembled and shipped to the United States aboard the French Navy ship, Isère. The Statue arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, and was met with great fanfare. Unfortunately, the pedestal for the Statue was not yet complete and the entire structure was not reassembled on Bedloe's Island until 1886
200
This former president was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F Kennedy, Calvin Coolidge
Who is John F Kennedy?
200
The song Taps is traditionally played with this musical instrument.
Bugle, Saxophone, Piano, French Horn
What is the bugle (or trumpet)?
200
This is the day in June in which the U.S. flag is celebrated.
May 29th, July 14th, June 14th, June 1st
What is June 14th?
The holiday commemorates the date in 1777 when the United States approved the design for its first national flag
200
This patriotic symbol broke the first time it was used.
What is The Liberty Bell?
200
This was the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
A) Antietam B) Gettysburg C) Little Big Horn D) Chickamauga
What is Gettysburg?
It is believed more than 51,000 soldiers were killed during this battle.
200
On July 4, 1777, this city marked its first annual Independence Day celebration by adjourning Congress and celebrating with bonfires, bells and fireworks.
A) Annapolis, B) Baltimore, C) Philadelphia, D) Newark
C) Philadelphia
300
This president was known as The Great Emancipator.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
Finish the lyric:
Over there, over there
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming
The Yanks are coming
The drums rum tumming everywhere
So prepare, say a prayer
Send the word, send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over
And we _____________________(8 words)
won't come back till it's over, over there!
"Over There"
By: George M Cohen
300
This holiday was first celebrated in 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery.
A) Flag Day B) Labor Day C) Veterans Day D) Memorial Day
What is Memorial Day?
It was initially called decoration day. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan established Decoration Day as a way for the nation to honor the graves of those who died in the Civil War with flowers, according to the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department.
300
The Statue of Liberty was gifted by the U.S. by this country.
What is France?
300
This peace treaty ended WWI.
The Congress of Vienna, Treaty of Versailles, Paris Peace Treaties, The Treaty of Utrecht
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting the war and imposed harsh penalties in terms of loss of territory, massive reparations payments and demilitarization.
300
This classic was inspired on 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll was traveling with three young daughters of a close friend, taking them out for a picnic. To amuse them and pass the time, he spun a story about a little girl who shared the name of one of the daughters. What story was it?
A) Charlotte's Web B) Little Women C) Alice in Wonderland D) Mary Poppins
Alice in Wonderland
Alice, who was only 10-years-old at the time, was enraptured by Carroll’s whimsical story and begged him to write it down for her. Carroll obliged. He wrote her the story, and, when he shared it with the children of his other friends, began to realize that he was holding what would one day become a literary classic.
400
He was the only president to be born on July 4th.
A) Calvin Coolidge B) Harry Truman C) Gerald Ford D) Woodrow Wilson
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Fun Fact: In a moment that had never transpired before and has never been repeated, Coolidge was sworn into the presidential office by his own father, also named John Calvin Coolidge. The pair found themselves together while the younger Coolidge was visiting his father in Vermont. News arrived of Harding’s sudden death, which prompted Coolidge Senior, a notary public, to swear in his son in the middle of the night.
400
This song, written by Julia Ward Howe, contains the line "where the grapes of wrath are stored".
America the Beautiful, Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Yankee Doodle
What is the Battle Hymn of the Republic?
400
This holiday commemorates the day the last U.S. slaves were freed in TX. It was made a federal holiday in June 2021.
A) Shavuot B) Juneteenth C) Memorial Day D) Freedom Day
What is Juneteenth?
The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.
400
The faces of these four famous Americans are carved into Mount Rushmore.
Who are George Wahsington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abe Lincoln?
400
This general became commander of all US troops in 1942 and all Allied Forces in 1943.
Macarthur, Eisenhower, Grant, Marshall
Who is General Dwight Eisenhower?
400
July 4th, 1826, Two major figures of the American Revolution died—50 years to the day after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
*Hint: They became US Presidents
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died within hours of each other. Adams was 90; Jefferson was 83.
Adams died at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon on the Fourth. His last words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
500
He was the first American-born president
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft, Martin Van Buren
Who was Martin Van Buren?
Martin Van Buren was of Dutch descent but was the first president to be born in the United States of America. His father was not only a farmer but also a tavern keeper. While going to school as a youth, Van Buren worked in his father's tavern. It was frequented by lawyers and politicians like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
500
This man and his orchestra recorded this version of “American Patrol” in 1942, roughly six months before the bandleader reported for duty with the US Army.
Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman
Glenn Miller.
Reporting for duty on October 7, 1942, Miller received his formal commission as captain in November, was transferred from the US Army to the US Army Air Forces (USAAF), and assigned to Maxwell Field, Alabama. By 1943, Miller was named the Director of Bands, Training, for the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command and moved to the USAAF Basic Training Station #2 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
500
This holiday is also known as Decoration Day.
What is Memorial Day?
500
True or False: Uncle Sam was a real person.
True
The origin of the term Uncle Sam, though disputed, is usually associated with a businessman from Troy, New York, Samuel Wilson, known affectionately as “Uncle Sam” Wilson. The barrels of beef that he supplied the army during the War of 1812 were stamped “U.S.” to indicate government property. That identification is said to have led to the widespread use of the nickname Uncle Sam for the United States, and a resolution passed by Congress in 1961 recognized Wilson as the namesake of the national symbol.
500
Louis Zamperini, WWII hero and Olympic runner, had his story told in this Lara Hillenbrand book that was later made into a 2014 movie.
Unbroken, Seabiscuit, The Pegasus Diaries, Etched in Purple
What is Unbroken?
500
This American writer, whose greatest works, including the novel The Scarlet Letter (1850), are marked by profound psychological and moral insight, was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
600
This man described the vice presidency as “the most insignificant office that ever the Invention of man contrived or his Imagination conceived.”
Lyndon B Johnson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Mike Pence
John Adams
He famously said this serving as the first Vice President of the United States under George Washington
600
This American classic was originally a poem first published in print on July 4th, 1895. It was then modified in 1904 and again in 1913. The song is considered by some to be the country’s unofficial national anthem.
Star Spangled Banner, Battle Hymn of the Republic, You're a Grand Old Flag, America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful.
The song, “America the Beautiful," was based on a poem written by the professor, poet, and writer, Katharine Lee Bates, during an 1893 trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado. When she got to the top of Pike’s Peak, the view was so beautiful that it inspired her to write, "All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse."
600
Which holiday honoring parents came first: Mother's Day or Father's Day?
Mother's Day
Mother's Day became a commercial holiday in 1908. The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington, but it was not until 1972—58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official—that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United States
600
Despite the views of Benjamin Franklin, the bald eagle beat out this animal to become the symbol of America.
Dog, Rabbit, Turkey, Beaver
Turkey
Today, the eagle not only appears on the official seal of the United States but on coins, flags for the military, and more.
600
Of the 46 US presidents that have held office, how many served in the army at one point in their life?
15, 25, 30, 43
Thirty of the 45 presidents served in the Army
24 during time of war, two earned the rank of five-star general (Washington -- who was promoted posthumously to a six-star general in 1976 -- and Eisenhower) and one earned the Medal of Honor (Theodore Roosevelt)
600
In 1946 this Asian country was proclaimed an independent country, with Manuel Roxas as its first president
A) Thailand B) Phillipines C) Taiwan D) Laos
The Philippines
In 1942 the islands fell under Japanese occupation during World War II, and US forces and Filipinos fought together during 1944-45 to regain control. On 4 July 1946 the Republic of the Philippines attained its independence.”