Ides of March
March Madness
March Music
Reminiscing
March Birthdays
March History
100
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In the rather complex Roman calendar system,
this day falls on the 13th in some months
and on the 15th in others.
What is the ides?
100
Who is the richest basketball player in America right now?
Who is Micheal Jordan?
100
The artist who sang "Baby" and "Sorry" has a birthday on March 1st.
Who is Justin Bieber?
100
What led our country into a national emergency on March 13th, 2020?
What is the Covid 19 Pandemic?
100
This "Notorious" U.S. Supreme Court Justice was born on the Ides of March 1933.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
100
This fifth-century AD Christian missionary is thought
to have died on March 17, a day that became a holiday celebrating
him and the country where he was once enslaved by pirates.
Who is St. Patrick?
200
The Ides of March became an "infamous day" because of this event,
which took place on March 15, 44 BC.
Hint: it's a play in Ancient Rome
What is the assassination of Julius Caesar?
200
This former player played guard for the LA Lakers for 20 years and is known to be one of the best basketball players in the history of the NBA.
Hint: RIP
Who is Kobe Bryant?
200
Composed as a march within a march, this theme by
Sir Edward Elgar became known as "The Graduation March"
after it was played at Yale University's 1905 commencement exercises.
What is "Pomp and Circumstance"?
200
Due to the "COVID 19," this became
a staple of many WFH wardrobes.
What are sweatpants/yoga pants/PJ pants?
200
This co-founder of the
United Farm Workers Union
would have turned 94 on March 31.
Who is Cesar Chávez?
200
This physicist would have won a Breakthrough Prize, had it existed
at the time, for this "relatively" groundbreaking theory,
which he published on March 20, 1915.
Hint: has that silly photo with his tongue sticking out
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
With his play Julius Caesar, this playwright made "Beware the Ides of March" and "Et Tu, Brute?" familiar English-language expressions.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
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This Principal Gift prospect attended Stanford on a basketball scholarship
and was named to the 1960 conference first team.
Who is John Arrillaga '60?
300
John Williams' "Imperial March" is also known
as the theme for this intergalactic villain.
Who is Darth Vader?
300
In the Pandemic, this sweet drink became a Tik Tok trend.
Hint: a lot of stirring
What is whipped coffee?
300
This Supreme Court "first"
will turn 91 next Friday.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor '50, LLB '52?
300
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This reality TV show, which currently features
Shannon, Kelly, Gina, Emily, Braunwyn, and Elizabeth,
premiered on March 21, 2006.
What is Real Housewives of Orange County?
400
Though he divorced his wife on suspicion of infidelity,
Caesar had an affair and a son with this queen,
and his general and friend Mark Antony also
had an affair with her--and three children!
Who is Cleopatra?
400
Stanford two-sport athlete Lindsey Yamasaki '02
was the first Asian American to play in the WNBA.
This was her other sport.
What is volleyball?
400
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Lots of kids learn this Sousa march with the words:
Be kind to your web-footed friends
For a duck may be somebody's mother!
What is "The Stars and Stripes Forever"?
400
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This company had around 10 million active users in 2019.
By July 2020, due to Covid, its users numbered more than 300 million.
What is Zom?
400
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This "Rocket Man" and the "Queen of Soul"
share the same birthday: March 25.
Who are Elton John and Aretha Franklin?
400
Sandra Day O’Connor ‘50, LLB ‘52, Jill Biden, Sally Ride ‘73, MS '75 PhD '78,
Mae Jemison ‘77, Condoleeza Rice, Melinda Gates P ‘18, Michelle Obama,
Hillary Clinton P '01, Chelsea Clinton ‘01, and Eugenie Van Wynen
all share a connection to this organization,
founded in Savannah, GA, on March 12, 1912.
Hint: thin mints
What is the Girl Scouts?
500
23: No, it's not the number of LRV initiatives, but rather the number of times Caesar was stabbed by Roman senators, who feared he wanted to make himself king--and this is what it would be in Roman numerals.
What is XXIII?
500
The 2021 movie Space Jam: A New Legacy featured this basketball player.
Who is LeBron James?
500
The artist who sang "Who Dat Boy" and "New Magic Wand" has a birthday on March 6th.
Who is Tyler, the Creator?
500
Which Glass Animals song became popular during the pandemic?
What is Heat Waves
500
This native of upstate New York, whose first name was Amasa,
was born March 9, 1824, and went on to become
an industrialist, politician, and the founder of a university.
Who is (Amasa) Leland Stanford.
500
This song becomes the National Anthem on March 3rd, 1931.
What is The Star-Spangled Banner?
750
The assassination of Julius Caesar led to a period of civil wars
and the eventual ascendancy of this man, his adopted son,
who in 27 BC became the first Roman emperor.
Who is (Caesar) Augustus?
750
These two Stanford alum sisters
currently play together in the WNBA
on the Los Angeles Sparks.
Who are Nneka '12 and Chiney '14 Ogwumike?
(And Nneka is president of the players' assoc.!)
750
The march popularly known as "Here Comes the Bride"
originated in the opera Lohengrin,
written by this German composer.
Who is Richard Wagner?
750
Just a few weeks into WFH, a Tiktok dance craze
to this song by The Weeknd swept the country
(and OOD).
What is "Blinding Lights"?
750
For a time the richest man in America, this businessman
and entrepreneur--and grandfather of a current Stanford Trustee--
was born on March 29, 1918.
Who was Sam Walton?
750
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On March 5, 1770, this Massachusetts man of African and
indigenous (Natick) descent became the first person to die
in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
1000
"My wife was making fun of me, saying she thought
there were three people on our Rome honeymoon:
me, her, and Augustus. All the photos were of different sculptures
of Augustus!" this tech mogul revealed in a 2018 New Yorker profile.
Hint: people don't think he's real...
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
1000
This 7-time NBA All-Star on the Golden State Warriors has won 3 NBA championships and has been named the NBA Most Value Player 2 times.
Who is Steph Curry?
1000
The march often played to conclude wedding ceremonies
was originally composed to accompany this play
by William Shakespeare.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
1000
This New Yorker reporter is one of the more well-known people to have lost their jobs after inappropriate behavior during a WFH Zoom call.
Who is Jeffrey Toobin?
1000
This guy turns 42 on March 18th.
Hint: "I'm hurtin baby, I'm broken down. I need your loving, loving, I need it now"
Who is Adam Levine?
1000
Where are my APUSH people at...
On March 25, 1911, this tragic event killed 146 people,
mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant women, but led to
new factory safety standards and spurred the growth
of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Hint: triangle
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
