Four rounds on the Stars and Stripes: the first flags of 1776 to 1818, the stars, stripes and colors, the flag code and where the flag flies, and Flag Day.
Read the full guide
Trivia questions about the American flag
The first flags asks who designed, sewed and first raised them. Stars, stripes and colors has the nicknames, the present design's number and what red was said to stand for. Flag code and display covers the ground, the night, a president's death and the astronauts' shoulder patch.
For June 14
The Flag Day round has the teacher of 1885, the president who signed the act of 1949 and the first state to make it a holiday.
Tips
For a scout meeting, play Flag code and display, the round on how the flag is flown and handled.
Questions and answers
Are there Flag Day trivia questions and answers, printable for a class?
Yes, one round is all Flag Day. After ten answers the end card shows Print question sheet, and Print answer key is under More options.
What are some easy US flag trivia questions?
How many points has each star? What should the flag never touch? Which nickname of the flag names its three colors? The answers are five, the ground, and the Red, White and Blue.
Did Betsy Ross make the first flag?
The quiz does not say she did. The article it was read in reports that, by her family's own account, she ran an upholstery business and had not made a flag before the visit the story describes.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Flag of the United States or Flag Day (United States). The flag code round restates that article's summary; it is not an official guide or legal advice.
A plan passed by Congress on April 4, 1818 gave the flag how many stars?Answer: 20. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
The Dansey Flag of 1777 was used early in the war by a militia from which state?Answer: Delaware. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
The Flag Resolution of 1777 said that the thirteen stars, white in a blue field, represented a new what?Answer: Constellation. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
For sewing which famous flag is Mary Pickersgill remembered?Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner Flag. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
In the plan of 1818, who suggested adding a star for each new state?Answer: Captain Samuel C. Reid. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Tradition holds that the Continental Army first hoisted the new flag in June 1777 at which encampment?Answer: Middlebrook. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
What business did Betsy Ross run, by her own family's account?Answer: An upholstery business. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Where was the first official U.S. flag flown in battle, on August 3, 1777?Answer: Fort Schuyler. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Which flag was the national flag until the Flag Resolution?Answer: The Continental Union Flag. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Who held a flag-raising ceremony on New Year's Day 1776 to lift the spirits of the Continental Army?Answer: George Washington. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Stars, stripes and colors 10
Before the 48-star flag was proclaimed, what did the design of the canton lack?Answer: An official arrangement of the stars. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Counting every official version since 1777, which number design is the present flag?Answer: The 27th. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
How many points has each star on the flag?Answer: Five. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
How many stripes, "alternate red and white", did the Flag Resolution of 1777 call for?Answer: Thirteen. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
In 1782 Charles Thomson explained the colors of the national seal. What did he say red signifies?Answer: Hardiness and valor. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
In the language of heraldry, what are the stars of the flag called?Answer: Mullets. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Which Central American country flew a flag modeled on the Stars and Stripes from 1865 to 1912?Answer: El Salvador. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Which Ohio teenager, later a mayor, is often said to have designed the 50-star flag, though no official account is known?Answer: Robert G. Heft. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Which president ordered the 50-star flag on August 21, 1959?Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Which well-known nickname of the flag simply names its three colors?Answer: The Red, White and Blue. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Flag code and display 10
A president dies. For how many days is the flag then lowered?Answer: 30 days. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
According to the flag code, what should the flag never be allowed to touch?Answer: The ground. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
According to the flag code, when should a flag be repaired or replaced?Answer: When its edges become tattered through wear. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
The custom of not dipping the flag may go back to which Olympic Games?Answer: London, 1908. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
The flag code says the flag should never be what "to any person or thing"?Answer: Dipped. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
How does the flag code prefer that a worn-out flag be destroyed?Answer: By burning, in a dignified manner. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Replicas of the Star-Spangled Banner Flag fly at two sites in which city?Answer: Baltimore. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
What does the flag code ask for when the flag is flown at night?Answer: That it be illuminated. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
What was the original meaning of flying the flag upside down?Answer: A signal of dire distress. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Where on the space suit has nearly every U.S. astronaut since Gemini 4 worn the flag?Answer: On the left shoulder. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of the United States
Flag Day 11
In which state is Waubeka, where Flag Day was first formally observed in a school in 1885?Answer: Wisconsin. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Is Flag Day an official federal holiday?Answer: No. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
New York law places its Flag Day, a state holiday, on which day?Answer: The second Sunday in June. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
On June 14, 1846, settlers at Sonoma declared which short-lived republic?Answer: The Bear Flag Republic. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
What is the week of June 14 designated as?Answer: National Flag Week. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Which house in Baltimore, the birthplace of the flag of 1813, has celebrated Flag Day since 1927?Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Which president signed the Act of Congress of 1949 that formally established Flag Day?Answer: Harry S. Truman. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Which schoolteacher held the first recognized formal observance of Flag Day, in 1885?Answer: Bernard J. Cigrand. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Which service was founded on June 14, 1775, two years to the day before the flag was adopted?Answer: The United States Army. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Which was the first state to make Flag Day a state holiday, in 1937?Answer: Pennsylvania. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
Which Wisconsin city claims the oldest National Flag Day parade, held every year since 1950?Answer: Appleton. Source: Wikipedia: Flag Day (United States)
How this list was compiled
Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Questions and wrong choices are our own. Each explanation restates, in our own sentences, a fact from the English Wikipedia article named and linked beside the question (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license): Flag of the United States and Flag Day (United States). The text of each article was fetched on October 2 or 3, 2026, and on October 3, 2026 the passage that states each fact was read in it before the question was kept. The flag code questions restate the article's summary of the code; they are not an official guide and not legal advice. Left out on purpose: protests and court cases about the flag, living people, and what other trivia sets on this site already ask (half-staff as a word, the triangle fold, the union, Old Glory's sea captain, the 15 stripes of the Fort McHenry flag, the pledge and its author, the 48 stars before 1959, who wrote the anthem's words). Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits people who know the subject, hard will stump most tables. Each question also carries the date its article was read (checkedOn). Licence: own work