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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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CFIF Star-Spangled Banner Quiz Print
By CFIF Staff
Wednesday, September 10 2014

Take our 14 Question Quiz to test your knowledge of our National Anthem. (Answer key may be found at the bottom)

1.  Which one of the following penned the words to the “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

a. George M. Cohan
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Francis Scott Key
d. John Philip Souza


2.  How many stanzas comprise the entirety of “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four


3.  During which one of the following wars was the “The Star-Spangled Banner” written?

a. American Revolutionary War
b. War of 1812
c. Mexican-American War
d. French and Indian War


4.  Against which one of the following European powers was the U.S. fighting at the time “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written?

a. France
b. England
c. Germany
d. Spain


5.  Who was President of the United States at the time “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written?

a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. James Madison
d. James Monroe


6.  Which President of the United States issued an Executive Order designating “The Star-Spangled Banner” as our National Anthem?

a. Herbert Hoover
b. James Monroe
c. Theodore Roosevelt
d. Woodrow Wilson


7.  How many Stars and how many Stripes comprised America’s flag in 1776?

a. 13 Stars and 13 Stripes
b. 15 Stars and 13 Stripes
c. 15 Stars and 15 Stripes
d. 13 Stars and 15 Stripes


8.  How many Stars and how many Stripes were contained in the American flag which caught “the gleam of the morning's first beam” in “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

a. 13 Stars and 13 Stripes
b. 15 Stars and 13 Stripes
c. 15 Stars and 15 Stripes
d. 13 Stars and 15 Stripes


9.  How large was the U.S. flag raised in victory and seen “by the dawn’s early light”?

a. 15 feet by 25 feet
b. 20 feet by 30 feet
c. 30 feet by 42 feet
d. 40 feet by 60 feet


10.  The poem which lent its words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” was originally entitled which one of the following?

a. “The Battle of Baltimore”
b. “The Burning of Washington”
c. “The Defence of Fort McHenry”
d. “The War of 1812”


11.  Which one of the following popular 18th-century songs provided the melody to “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

a. “Anacreon in Heaven”
b. “Soft Flowing Avon”
c. “Over the Hills and Far Away”
d. “The Lakes of Ponchartrain”


12.  The signing of which one of the following treaties brought about the conclusion of the War of 1812?

a. The Treaty of Paris
b. The Treaty of Ghent
c. The Treaty of Versailles
d. The Treaty of St. Petersburg


13.  To which of the following entities was the original flag referenced in “The Star-Spangled Banner” offered as a permanent gift to the nation in 1912?  

a. The City of Baltimore
b. The Smithsonian Institution
c. The National Parks Service
d. The President of the United States


14.  In which one of the following years was legislation designating “The Star-Spangled Banner” as our National Anthem signed into law?

a. 1815
b. 1865
c. 1916
d. 1931


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Answers: 1 (c), 2 (d), 3 (b), 4 (b), 5 (c), 6 (d), 7 (a), 8 (c), 9 (c), 10 (c), 11 (a), 12 (b), 13 (b), 14 (d)

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