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By Nancy Riggs Candor Elementary School |
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American Flag 1. How many stripes are there on today's flag? 2. What do the stripes represent? 3. How many stars are on the flag? 4. What do the stars represent? 5. When are new stars added? |
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| Flag
History 6. When was the first American flag sewn, and reportedly, by whom? 7. On what date was the flag adopted? 8. How many states were represented by the first flag? 9. What is the official national anthem? 10. Which state was represented by the 28th star? 11. When did the flag first have 50 stars? 12. Where was the flag placed on July 20, 1969? |
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First American Flag 13. What does the red, white, and blue of the flag represent? 14. Who designed the flag? 15. What had he previously signed? 16. Why are the stars in a circle? 17. Where is the first flag? 18. Why is the flag called "Old Glory"? |
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Star Spangled Banner 19. Who wrote our national anthem? 20. When did he write it? 21. What fort was the flag flying over? 22. Click here to see the size of the flag in relation to a person.. 23. Clck here to see how big the flag was in relation to a person. |
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| 24. How many
stars
and stripes did this
flag
have? 25. Why? 26. How large was the flag that flew over the fort? 27. Why was it so large? 28. How wide was each stripe? 29. How wide was each star? 30. How were the stars on this flag different from today's flag? 31. How were the stripes different? |
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Picture Gallery 32. What was the name of the flag with the number 76 on it? 33. When was it used? 34. When did we have a flag with 15 stripes and 15 stars? 35. When was it decided to go back to 13 stripes? 36. In what year was the Grand Star Flag made? |
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Etiquette 37. How do you fold a flag correctly? 38. What is meant by "half-staff"? |
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Trivia 39. When would you fly a flag upside down? 40. What does it mean? 41. What is done with worn out flags? 42. What is a vexillologist? |
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