Q 01/05

Woodrow Wilson signed Mother's Day into a national holiday in what year?

A) 1908

B) 1910

C) 1914

D) 1920

Answer · why

C) 1914

Wilson's proclamation fixed it on the second Sunday in May, six years after the first church service in 1908.

Q 02/05

Which woman is credited as the founder of the modern Mother's Day holiday in the United States?

A) Julia Ward Howe

B) Anna Jarvis

C) Ann Jarvis

D) Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer · why

B) Anna Jarvis

She built the campaign around her own mother, who had wished aloud for such a day in a Sunday school lesson in 1876.

Q 03/05

Which Egyptian journalist introduced Mother's Day to the Arab world?

A) Mustafa Amin

B) Naguib Mahfouz

C) Taha Hussein

D) Ahmed Lutfi

Answer · why

A) Mustafa Amin

He wrote about the idea in 1943 in a book called Smiling America, and Egypt first marked the day in 1956.

Q 04/05

Which flower was chosen in 1907 as the official symbol of Mother's Day?

A) Rose

B) Lily

C) Carnation

D) Daisy

Answer · why

C) Carnation

White was meant to stand for the purity of a mother's love.

Q 05/05

Which U.S. president signed the proclamation making Mother's Day an official holiday?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) William Howard Taft

C) Warren G. Harding

D) Woodrow Wilson

Answer · why

D) Woodrow Wilson

President Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation in 1914 that officially established Mother's Day as a national holiday on the second Sunday of May.