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How Much Do You Know About Veterans Day?

Bill Hogan

En español

Published October 30, 2014

8 Questions

How Much Do You Know About Veterans Day?

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  "question" : "Veterans Day was originally known as",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Armistice Day",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Flag Day",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Remembrance Day",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Soldiers Day",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Veterans Day was originally known as Armistice Day and was meant to honor the nation's World War I veterans. Armistice Day officially received its name in 1926 through a congressional resolution and became a national holiday in 1938.",
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  "question" : "Veterans Day is celebrated on Nov. 11 because",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "That's when the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was signed.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "President Woodrow Wilson picked that day from a list submitted by the heads of major veterans service organizations.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Congress wanted the holiday to fall between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "None of the above.",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "World War I, which was known at the time as \"The Great War,\" officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside Versailles, France. Fighting had actually ended seven months earlier, however, when an armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. For that reason, Nov. 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of \"the war to end all wars.\"",
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}, {
  "question" : "Who first proposed that Armistice Day be renamed Veterans Day?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Dwight D. Eisenhower",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Alvin J. King",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Douglas MacArthur",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Harry S. Truman",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "In 1953, Alvin J. King of Emporia, Kan., proposed that Armistice Day be changed to Veterans Day to recognize and honor American veterans of all wars and conflicts. King came up with the idea after his nephew, John Cooper, was killed in action during World War II.",
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}, {
  "question" : "Veterans Day officially acquired its current name in",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "1954",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "1956",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "1958",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "1960",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "In 1954, at the urging of veterans service organizations, Congress amended the 1938 law that created Armistice Day by striking out the word \"Armistice\" and inserting in its place the word \"Veterans.\" With President Dwight D. Eisenhower's signature, the legislation became Public Law 380 on June 1, 1954.",
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}, {
  "question" : "What flower is a symbol of Veterans Day?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Forget-Me-Not",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Lily",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Poppy",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Rose",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "The story begins with the famous poem, \"In Flanders Fields,\" written by John McCrae in 1915 (\"In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row\"). In 1918 Moina Belle Michael, on reading McCrae's poem, pledged to always wear a red poppy as a sign of remembrance. Her idea spread, and in 1924 the Veterans of Foreign Wars launched its \"Buddy Poppy\" program to help disabled and needy veterans.",
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}, {
  "question" : "The motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs is \"To care for him who shall have borne the battle.\" Who originally wrote these words?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Smedley Darlington Butler",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Abraham Lincoln",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Walt Whitman",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Woodrow Wilson",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "The line is from the final paragraph of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, which he delivered on March 4, 1865, as the nation braced itself for the final throes of the Civil War.",
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}, {
  "question" : "What patriotic song debuted in its current form on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "\"America, The Beautiful,\" by Katharine Lee Bates",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "\"God Bless America,\" by Irving Berlin",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "\"Spirit of the U.S.A.\" by E.T. Paull",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "\"The Yankee Doodle Boy,\" by George M. Cohan",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "In 1938, with the rise of Hitler, Irving Berlin dug out a song he'd written in 1918 for an army camp show, changed a few lyrics, and renamed it \"God Bless America.\" On Nov. 10, Kate Smith sang it as the closing number on an Armistice Day edition of her immensely popular CBS Radio show. In short order it become the \"peace anthem\" that Berlin had wanted it to be — and Kate Smith's signature song.",
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}, {
  "question" : "Which of the following is not true?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "The national Veterans Day observance is held annually at Arlington National Cemetery.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Flags fly at half-staff on Veterans Day.",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "The original purpose of the holiday included a two-minute suspension of all business activity at 11 a.m.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Many restaurants and businesses give discounts to veterans.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Veterans Day is a time set aside to celebrate and honor those who have served in the armed services and therefore is not a day to fly flags at half-staff, a symbol of mourning.",
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