1. What flags were raised above the summit of Mount Everest by Hillary and Tensing in 1953?
Ans: The flag of the United Nations, of Great Britain, Nepal and India in that order.
2. We all know the Stars and Stripes, but what were the Stripes and Bars?
Ans: This was the first emblem of the Confederate State in the American Civil War. It was superseded by the Southern Cross Flag because of its resemblance to the Stars and Stripes proved confusing in battle.
3. What emblems are used, and where, for the Red Cross Flag?
Ans: The Moselm region uses a Red Crescent Flag, and Iran uses a variant of its National emblem, a Red Lion grasping a sword. All three emblems are borne on a while field.
4. What is the translation of the Arabic script on the flag of Saudi Arabia?
Ans: ‘There is no god but God and Mohammed is the Prophet of God’ – the Moslem declaration of faith.
5. How many stripes appear on the National Flag of Greece, and why?
Ans: There are nine horizontal stripes, alternately blue and white, to represent the
Nine symbols of the Greek slogan Eleutheria a thanatos’, Freedom or death’.
6. Which was the first flag to reach the Moon?
Ans:Miniature Russian flags were scattered on the surface of the Moon by the Luna 2 in 1959, and the Stars and Stripes was raised above it by Armstrong and Aldrin in 1969.
7. Which flag of a foreign region resembles a British Ensign in having the so-called
Union Jack in its canton and what is the design on the remainder of the flag?
Ans: The state flag of Hawaii, the flag also bears eight horizontal stripes, white, red, blue, white, red, blue, white, red.
8. What were the colours of the original flag of the Netherlands and why were they
Varied?
Ans:They were at first orange, white and blue, the family colours of the Price of
Orange stripe was replaced by red to give greater visibility at sea.
9. What flag bears a representation of St. George slaying the Dragon?
Ans: The reverse of the Standard of the Emperor of Ethiopia.
10. How is the State Flag of East Germany distinguished from the National Flag of
West Germany?
Ans: The national emblem of a wreath encircling a hammer and a pair of dividers is
placed on the horizontal tricolour of black, red and gold.
11. What two National Flags display the ‘Sun of May’ and why?
Ans:The relationship between Argentina and Uruguay marked by the use of this
emblem, the sudden appearance of this emblem through the clouds when these
regions won their independence being regarded as a good omen.
12. Which two flags were the first to reach the South Pole?
Ans:Those of Norway and of Great Britain respectively, taken there by Amundsen
and Scott.
13. How are the flags of the constituent Republics of the Soviet Union distinguished from that of the Soviet Union itself?
Ans: By patterns of horizontal or vertical stripes or by a slight variation of the hammer and sickle emblem.
14 What foreign flag most resembles the British Union Flag and in what respect does it differ from this?
Ans: The National flag of Iceland, which also bears a red St. George’s Cross edged
With white on a blue field. However, it has no diagonal stripes and the vertical arm of the cross is somewhat nearer the hoist.
15. What is, or was, the Sabah Jack?
Ans: It was the Governor’s flag of the British North Borneo Company which administered Sabha, formerly a British Protectorate. It displayed a red lion rampant on a small gold Disc at the centre of the Union Jack.
Compiled by: Jaganmohan Rao (Bangalore)
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