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1. A vexillologist studies?
2. The original American flag has thirteen stars in a circle. The stars, which represent colonies, are in a circle so no colony would be the "first colony".
3. Officially, why is the flag red, white and blue?
4. Who gave the flag the nickname, "Old Glory"?
5. Was it ever appropriate to fly the flag upside-down?
6. Francis Scott Key wrote a song about the US flag entitled "The Star-Spangled..." what?
7. "You can't appreciate home til you've left it, money til it's spent, your wife til she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory til you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty in a consul of a foreign town." What famous American said this?
8. When was both the order of the stars and the proportions of the flag officially determined?
9. Who designed the first American flag?
10. In flag terminology, what does the *noun* "fly" mean?
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