Q 01/05

Who founded Father's Day, holding the first celebration at a Spokane YMCA in 1910?

A) Anna Jarvis

B) Julia Ward Howe

C) Sonora Smart Dodd

D) Frances Willard

Answer · why

C) Sonora Smart Dodd

Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas and living in Spokane, Washington, organised the first Father's Day at the city's YMCA in 1910. Anna Jarvis is the...

Q 02/05

Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane proposed Father's Day in 1909 after hearing a church sermon about which holiday?

A) Mother's Day

B) Children's Day

C) Memorial Day

D) Labor Day

Answer · why

A) Mother's Day

Mother's Day, which Anna Jarvis had launched only the year before; Dodd told her pastor that fathers deserved the same. Her own father, a Civil War ve...

Q 03/05

The Civil War veteran who inspired Father's Day was a single parent raising how many children alone?

A) Six

B) Three

C) Nine

D) Twelve

Answer · why

A) Six

William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran, raised six children alone after being widowed — Sonora and her five brothers. Watching him do it is what p...

Q 04/05

Which flower did Sonora Smart Dodd choose as the emblem of Father's Day?

A) Carnation

B) Rose

C) Lily

D) Sunflower

Answer · why

B) Rose

Dodd chose the rose: a red rose worn for a living father and a white rose for one who had died. The carnation was already Anna Jarvis's emblem for Mot...

Q 05/05

Which president, in the election year 1972, signed the law that made Father's Day a permanent US national holiday?

A) Richard Nixon

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

A) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon, on April 24, 1972, 62 years after the first celebration in Spokane. Lyndon B. Johnson had issued the first presidential proclamation ho...