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

John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia department-store owner, backed Jarvis's campaign and hosted a Mother's Day ceremony in his store's auditorium on 10 M...

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

In 1914 Congress passed a joint resolution on 8 May and the president proclaimed the first national Mother's Day on 9 May, a day for public expression...

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

The white carnation was Ann Reeves Jarvis's favourite flower; her daughter chose it for the purity of a mother's love, and florists later made pink me...

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

Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, where Ann Reeves Jarvis had long taught Sunday school, held the first Mother's Day service on 10 May 19...