National Celebrations
March 2nd: Celebrates the birthday of the author of “Green Eggs & Ham” and “Horton Hears a Who”
a) Mother Goose
b) Fred Rogers
c) Dr Seuss
True or False? Benjamin Franklin originated the idea of moving clocks forward.
What is False?
He proposed maximizing daylight hours by getting up earlier, but not the idea of changing clocks
These creatures are the best at pollinating flowers
a) Bees
b) Butterflies
c) Hummingbirds
What are bees? Fully 1/3rd of the human diet depends on pollination. And bees are responsible for 80% of it!
How St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland
a) With fire and smoke
b) With floods
c) With pounding drums
What is with pounding drums?
One of the most important Passover rituals is removing all leavened food products. This bread is unleavened
a) Matzo
b) Croissant
c) Sourdough
What is matzo?
March 3rd: Celebrates our equivalent
to “O Canada” and “God Save the Queen”
a) National Patriots’ Day
b) National Anthem Day
c) National Flag Day
Fire departments encourage doing this on the day Daylight Saving Time begins.
a) having a fire drill
b) checking home fire extinguishers
c) changing batteries in smoke detector
What is changing batteries in smoke detectors?
A working smoke detector more than doubles a person’s chances of surviving a home fire. More than 90% of homes in US have them but about half are est. to have dead batteries.
Earliest blooming flowers
a) Crocus
b) hydrangea
c) spirea
What are crocuses?
Kissing the Blarney Stone is supposed to give you this
a) Good Luck in Love
b) Power of persuasion
c) Heals you of warts
What is the power of persuasion? It gives you the ability to charm, flatter. In other words, fills you with blarney!
The religious feast that marks the beginning of Passover
a) Rosh HaShanah
b) Last Supper
c) Seder
What is a Seder?
This is NOT a myth of Daylight Saving Time
a) It conserves energy
b) Farmers love it
c) You are less likely to get robbed
What is You are less likely to get robbed.
The money saved on lighting is more than offset by greater cooling expenses. Farmers say it cuts off 25% of their productivity and are the loudest critics of it. Robbery rates decrease an avg of 7% on the day after DST, and 27% in the evening hour that gained the extra sunlight.
This vegetable can be planted outdoors in early Spring
and late Fall
a) broccoli
b) corn
c) tomatoes
What is broccoli?
"Erin go Bragh" means this in Irish:
a) Ireland Forever
b) Ireland the Brave
c) British Go! (from Ireland)
What is Ireland Forever?
Passover commemorates the 10th plague of Exodus when the angel of death “passed over” the Jewish homes that had this on the door frame
a) a piece of prayer cloth
b) mezuzah
c) lamb’s blood
What is lamb’s blood?
The mezuzah is a piece of parchment in a decorative case, inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah.
March 4: International Pancake Day started in 1445 with the women of Olney, England racing to the church on the day before Lent, while carrying a pancake in a skillet. In 1950, the people of this Kansas town challenged the originators to a trans-Atlantic race.
a) Liberal
b) Garden City
c) Hays
What is Liberal, Kansas?
Every year since, the 2 towns have held races. It has grown to include pancake cooking and eating contests and into a truly international celebration.
In 1916, during World War 1, this was the first country to adopt Daylight Saving Time.
a) United States
b) England
c) Germany
What is Germany?
Some areas of Canada had started the practice years earlier, however.
Trees that do NOT flower in early Spring
a) Redbud
b) Dogwood
c) Crepe myrtle
What are crepe myrtle trees?
What St. Patrick did, to cause a religious holiday to be started in his name.
a) Brought Christianity to Ireland
b) Drove the snakes out of Ireland
c) Changed the church’s rules about drinking
What is “brought Christianity to Ireland”?
This is NOT kosher:
a) Animals with split hooves that chew their cud
b) All species of fish
c) Non-predatory birds
What is all species of fish?
Fish with fins and removable scales are considered kosher
March 31st: Worldwide movement to promote conservation & bring attention to climate change, this event encourages turning off all non-essential lights for a period of time.
a) Ten Minute Time-Out
b) Earth Hour
c) World switch-off day
What is Earth Hour?
Always on the last Saturday in March, this year it will occur at 8:30pm local time.
Moving clocks ahead an hour was found to increase the risk of this by 10 percent
the next Monday.
a) Heart attacks
b) Traffic accidents
c) Being late to work
What are heart attacks? Compared to other Mondays. It is thought that the stress of starting a new work week plus losing an hour of sleep contributes to this.
The species of bird that has become dependent on human-made nests
a) Bluebirds
b) Purple Martins
c) Hummingbirds
What are purple martins? Native Americans hollowed out gourds for purple martin nests.
A popular Irish dish that is shredded cabbage, minced onions, mashed potatoes and melted butter is known as:
a) Mulligatawny
b) Shepherds' Pie
c) Colcannon
What is colcannon?
Mulligatawny is a curry soup from India with chicken, rice & apples.
One of the main focal points of the traditional Passover meal is the maggid, the telling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt. It begins with the youngest person at the meal asking the 4 questions. One of the questions is:
a) How is this night different from all other nights?
b) Why do we go to bed early this night?
c) Where is Egypt?
What is How is this night different from all other nights?