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O'Reilly's History Quiz
Quiz: The History Behind Memorial Day
1. Memorial Day, celebrated the last Monday in May, was formerly known as what?
Commemoration Day
Monument Day
Decoration Day
War Memorial Day
Remembrance Day
2. After which war did citizens begin to informally celebrate Memorial Day?
Mexican American War
War of 1812
7 Years War
Civil War
The Battle of the Alamo
3. The first Memorial Day (although called by a different name at the time) was organized by General John Logan and observed in Arlington National Cemetery in which year?
1868
1872
1880
1899
1930
4. Memorial Day became a day to honor all of those had died in U.S. wars after which conflict?
Vietnam War
World War I
Mexican American War
World War II
Korean War
5. Memorial Day originally took place on May 30. In what year did it become a federal holiday celebrated on the last Monday of May?
1905
1936
1940
1957
1968
6. Which future president made a speech on the first Memorial Day?
Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Tyler
John Quincy Adams
William McKinley
Ulysses S. Grant
7. By 1890, the states that had fought for the Union had made Memorial Day an official holiday. In the South, some states honored their Civil War dead on different on two different anniversaries. Which days were these?
General Stonewall Jackson's birthday and the date of Jefferson Davis's death.
The date of the first secession and the death of General Stonewall Jackson
The death of General Stonewall Jackson and the birthday of Jefferson Davis
The birthdays of Jefferson Davis and General Stonewall Jackson
The death of Jefferson Davis and the death of General Stonewall Jackson
8. Unofficially, and less somberly, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of what?
Summer
Spring
Planting season
Wearing white
Tomato season
9. Memorial Day is observed formally by laying a wreath where?
National Mall
Jefferson Memorial
The White House
Arlington National Cemetery
Lincoln Memorial
10. Which president signed the National Moment of Remembrance Act which designates 3 p.m. local time as a moment of silence on Memorial Day?
President Jimmy Carter
President Bill Clinton
President Richard Nixon
President George W. Bush
President John F. Kennedy
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