Remembrance Day – Webquest

1. What is Remembrance Day?

2. What else is this day called? Why?

3. How is this day also known in the US?

4. Who wrote the poem ‘For the Fallen’? What is its most famous stanza?

5. How long does the silence last in the ceremony? Who proposed it?

6. When is it celebrated in the UK?

7. Which famous guitarist wrote a song about Remembrance Day? / What are Alfie, Bill and Ken doing in this song?

8. What is the final line of the Ode to Remembrance?

9. In which years did the Queen not lay her wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday? Why?

10. Why is the number eleven so important in this celebration?