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Question: Memorial Day was first recognized on what date?
Answer: May 30, 1868
Question: When was Memorial Day named as such by the federal government?
Answer: 1967
Question: Memorial Day was originally known as what?
Answer: Decoration Day
Question: What city is known as the birthplace of Memorial Day?
Answer: Waterloo, New York
Question: Which president signed the National Moment of Remembrance Act?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: Memorial Day originally honored soldiers who died in which war?
Answer: U.S. Civil War
Question: What flower is traditionally worn as a remembrance of those who have died in war?
Answer: Poppies
Question: Who is generally considered the founder of Memorial Day?
Answer: John A. Logan
Question: What was the first state to make Memorial Day an official holiday?
Answer: Michigan
Question: Where is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier located?
Answer: Virginia
Question: How old was the youngest U.S. serviceman in World War II?
Answer: 12 years old
Question: What famous monument was dedicated on Memorial Day?
Answer: Lincoln Memorial
Question: What city hosts the oldest Memorial Day parade?
Answer: Doylestown, PA
Question: Which event traditionally takes place on Memorial Day weekend?
Answer: Indianapolis 500
Question: Arlington National Cemetery used to be a plantation belonging to whom?
Answer: Robert E. Lee
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Question: When was the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery
Answer: Nov. 11, 1921
Question: What is the top Memorial Day weekend destination?
Answer: Orlando, FL
Question: When did Washington D.C. hold its first Memorial Day parade?
Answer: 2004
Question: Which are the two most important items people wield to remember soldiers?
Answer: Flowers & Flags
Question: Many Americans treat Memorial Day as the onset of which season?
Answer: Summer
Question: Memorial Day weekend has been known as being the most hazardous holiday. Which incident caused it to be known as very risky?
Answer: Car Accidents
Question: Which southern state first commemorated the federal holiday of Memorial Day?
Answer: Mississippi
Question: What organization called for adorning the shrines of fallen soldiers on 30 May, 1868?
Answer: Republic Civil War Veterans' Organization
Question: Which woman served as a battlefield nurse during the Civil War, achieving the epithet 'Angel of the Battlefield', and established the American Red Cross in 1881?
Answer: Clara Barton
Question: What is the name of the largest national cemetery?
Answer: Calverton National Cemetery, New York
Question: There is something unusual at the Arlington national cemetery. What is it?
Answer: The Tomb of the Unknown
Question: Which year did the Civil War end?
Answer: 1865
Question: What poem inspired the tradition of wearing and planting poppy blossoms for Memorial Day?
Answer: "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae
Question: The National Moment of Remembrance takes place at what time each Memorial Day?
Answer: 3 p.m. local time
Question: What bugle call is played at all military funerals and memorial services?
Answer: Taps
Question: How many fallen soldiers were honored at the first Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery?
Answer: 20,000
Question: Which senator and World War II veteran fought to return Memorial Day to May 30 until his death in 2012?
Answer: Senator Daniel Inouye
Question: The ancient Greeks marked one of the earliest displays of honoring fallen soldiers in which war?
Answer: The Peloponnesian War
Question: When there was a shortage of natural poppies in 1924, which city was the first to manufacture artificial poppies?
Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Question: Who started the tradition of wearing red poppies on Memorial Day?
Answer: Moina Michael
Question: What percentage of people travel by car on Memorial Day weekend?
Answer: 88%
Question: What rise in percentage is the automobile-related casualties over Memorial Day weekend?
Answer: 12%
Question: How many hot dogs do Americans eat between Memorial Day and Labor Day?
Answer: 7 Billion
Question: What organization is accountable for the Buddy Poppy program, which funds U.S. veterans and families?
Answer: Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
Question: How many American men and women have died in all battles the U.S. has been involved?
Answer: 1.1 million
Question: The first Memorial Day speeches often emphasized what principle?
Answer: Sectional Reconciliation
Question: Which memorial to the fallen was the first to be inaugurated on Washington D.C. National Mall?
Answer: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Question: What organization called for adorning the shrines of fallen soldiers on 30 May, 1868?
Answer: Republic Civil War Veterans' Organization
Question: The annual biker rally in Washington, D.C. each Memorial Day is called what?
Answer: The Rolling Thunder Run
Question: Which organization first promoted a national holiday for decorating the graves of fallen soldiers?
Answer: Grand Army of the Republic
Question: For how many years has Memorial Day been reserved for cherishing the lives of Civil War soldiers only?
Answer: 100 years
Question: The quote, 'I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity', is from which former soldier who became a U.S. president.
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower
Question: How many total Americans died in the Civil War?
Answer: About 620,000
Question: When there was a shortage of natural poppies in 1924, which city was the first to manufacture artificial poppies?
Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Question: The Rolling Thunder Run is aimed at raising awareness of what?
Answer: Prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action
