Quiz: How much do you know about the Stars and Stripes, stars, and stripes?

Question

What do the stars represent on the US flag?

States

Answer 1

Former presidents

Answer 2

National parks

Answer 3

The night sky over the open prairie

Answer 4

The 13 Founding Fathers

Answer 5

Times of war separated by times of peace

Answer 6

The first 13 colonies to declare independence

Answer 7

Nothing really, but they look nice, right?

Answer 8

The flag of the British Empire in the United States.

Answer 9

The first national flag of the United States.

Answer 10

The flag flown by the Union during the Civil War.

Answer 11

It's actually London's original flag, which the Stars and Stripes was copied from.

Answer 12

I'm going to Wichita

Answer 13

Don't wanna hear about it

Answer 14

I'm gonna fight 'em all

Answer 15

O say can you see

Answer 16

Technically Jupiter

Answer 17

Proxima Centauri

Answer 18

Barnard's Star

Answer 19

Meryl Streep

Answer 20

Katharine Hepburn

Answer 21

Jack Nicholson

Answer 22

Nicky Ryan

Answer 23

Proxima Centauri

Answer 24

To make the car go faster.

Answer 25

Purely aesthetic.

Answer 26

Old types of paint would peel quickly on fast cars, so keeping the colour to stripes meant less paint to touch up.

Answer 27

To identify cars during a race.

Answer 28

Mel Gibson

Answer 29

Bill Murray

Answer 30

Nicky Ryan

Answer 31

Mark Wahlberg

Answer 32

Ben Affleck

Answer 33

Dwayne Johnson

Answer 34

Nicky Ryan

Answer 35

An average of 149,597,870km

Answer 36

Exactly 149,597,870km

Answer 37

An average of 185,004,000,000km

Answer 38

At least a day's drive away like, and even then you'd need be making good time

Answer 39

Chocolate, rice puffs, caramel

Answer 40

Chocolate, peanuts, caramel

Answer 41

Chocolate, nougat

Answer 42

Chocolate, ham

Answer 43

Lieutenant (Leifteanant)

Answer 44

Sergeant (Sáirsint)

Answer 45

Corporal (Ceannaire)

Answer 46

Star (Réalta)

Answer 47

Black with white stripes

Answer 48

White with black stripes

Answer 49

Puerto Rico

Quiz: How much do you know about the Stars and Stripes, stars, and stripes?

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