Ok - I wouldn't have known the answer but I'll guess and go with The Shining.

hmmm..... total WAG here... I'll guess a dime is about 1/2" diameter, and a quarter is about 1" diameter, and figure the grooves are about 1/32" apart, so my guesses are: dime => (.5 * 3.14) * 32 = 48-50 grooves quarter => (1.0 * 3.14) * 32 = 96-100 grooves with the variation being whether they groove them based on a decimal or binary system. :)

~I'll go with the Guinness Book of World Records - just something prophetic about it. Either that or The Caterpillar Book. We have 3 libraries in our community but only one copy of the Bible between the 3 of them. Maybe the others have been stolen!

Yup....agreeing with red and it was a no-brainer for me (former military). The stripes were set up as alternating colors (red/white) to represent the original 13 colonies. The flag has always been red/white/blue. I'd have to go back and look up flag history to confirm when the 13 stripes became the flag base but it's been around for at least 100 years....maybe early 1900s.