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 | Who cut the American flag into pieces and was honored for doing it? |  | Robert Peary, who left pieces of the flag scattered at the North Pole. Ref |
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| Is it ever appropriate to fly the flag upside down? | | Yes, but only in an emergency. It means "Help Me! It's an emergency! Call the police! I am in dire trouble and need immediate help!" |
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| What is done with worn or outdated flags? | | Flags are used until they are worn out and then they are destroyed, preferably by burning. |
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| Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the back on an envelope. What is the source of the music for it? | | The music is from an old English drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven." |
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| The American flag first flew over a foreign fort in what country? | | Libya — over Fort Derne, on the shores of Tripoli. |
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| A vexillologist is an expert in what? | | The history of flags. |
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| "Shipwreck" Kelly (1885-1952) was famous for sitting for long periods of time. What did he have to do with flags? | | He set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929. |
