With the 4th of July is fast approaching you will need to prepare so that you can get your kids prepared for the Independence Day. If you are a school teacher and have a lot of preschoolers or kindergarten kids then having a trivia quiz on independence is quite fun. In fact it is also a very good way to impart the needed knowledge to the kids be it preschool, kindergarten, middle or high school. Enjoy these when you have a fourth of July barbecue or watching fireworks or having a picnic or even when having a family reunion.

You can use the questions to have a quiz or create a crossword puzzle or even go for some brain teasers with fill in the blanks or scrabble sort of games.

Let us begin with patriotic questions

Q -Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

A – Francis Scott Key

Q – Who signed the Declaration of Independence?

A – John Hancock

Q –Who was the author of Fourth of July Ode?

A – James Russell Lowell

Other Trivia and fun facts

Q – Amount money spent on imports of fireworks

A – $135.6 million

Q – What year was the Declaration of Independence Signed?

A – 1776

Q – In what city was the Declaration of Independence signed

A – Philadelphia

Q – How many stripes are there in the American Flag?

A – 13

Q – How many stars are there in the American Flag?

A – 50

Q – How many verses does Star Spangled banner contain?

A – Four

Q – When was Fourth of July officially declared a holiday?

A – In 1941

Q – Who is the only president to be born of the 4th of July ?

A – Calvin Coolidge . He was our 30th president

Q – Name the president(s) who died on the 4th of July

A- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Q – What four famous faces are on Mt. Rushmore ?

A – Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt

Q – Who made the first American flag ?

A – Betsy Ross

Q – When did the Liberty Bell ring to announce the Declaration of Independence

A – July8, 1776

By way of information here is the full text of the Star Spangled Banner

Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:

‘Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."

And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Other facts for fourth of July

Our National Bird is the Bald Eagle

Our National Flower is Rose