Q 01/05

Which Philadelphia merchant helped Anna Jarvis launch Mother's Day with a 1908 store ceremony?

A) Marshall Field

B) John Wanamaker

C) Rowland Macy

D) Frank Woolworth

Answer · why

B) John Wanamaker

Jarvis later insisted the holiday's creation was hers alone, and never acknowledged Julia Ward Howe or Mothering Sunday as forerunners.

Q 02/05

In what year did Mother's Day officially become a national holiday in the United States?

A) 1908

B) 1920

C) 1870

D) 1914

Answer · why

D) 1914

Congress passed the law on 8 May and the presidential proclamation followed the next day, asking citizens to fly the flag for mothers whose sons had d...

Q 03/05

Which U.S. President signed the proclamation officially designating Mother's Day as a national holiday?

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

B) Woodrow Wilson

His proclamation asked Americans to display the flag in honour of mothers whose sons had died in war.

Q 04/05

Which flower, her mother's favourite, did Anna Jarvis make the Mother's Day emblem?

A) Carnation

B) Tulip

C) Lily

D) Rose

Answer · why

A) Carnation

Jarvis chose white for the purity of a mother's love; florists, short of white blooms, later invented the custom of pink for a living mother and white...

Q 05/05

Which town's Methodist church held the first Mother's Day services in 1907–08?

A) Wheeling

B) Grafton

C) Morgantown

D) Charleston

Answer · why

B) Grafton

Anna Jarvis's mother had taught Sunday school there; a larger ceremony the same day in 1908 filled the Wanamaker Auditorium in Philadelphia.