Spring Is in Full Swing
This is a term for a young person in poultry lingo.
Answer: What is spring chicken? When you’re healthy and fit, you feel like a spring chicken regardless of your age.
He is equally well known as supreme commander and for his U.S. presidency from 1953 to 1961.
Answer: Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower? He reached the very top of the active-duty ranks as a five-star general. As president, he presided over the creation of the Interstate Highway System.
This funnel-shaped phenomenon blows through its path with fury.
Answer: What is a tornado? Tornadic winds can howl and blow at up to 300 miles per hour. While they are usually short-lived, sometimes they last for hours. It doesn’t take more than a few seconds for a tornado to leave a path of utter destruction.
Space is considered this frontier.
Answer: What is final? Unofficially, there are three “spaces”: space, outer space, and deep space. Space is generic and covers outer space and deep space. Outer space is considered anything beyond Earth, and deep space is considered far beyond Earth’s moon.
Poirot makes his most famous appearance on a train in this Agatha Christie book.
Answer: What is Murder on the Orient Express? The book tells the story of a murder on the luxury train as Poirot travels from Istanbul to Calais. It has been adapted into a play, movie, TV, graphic novel, and video game.
We switch to this time in meteorological spring.
Answer: What is daylight saving time (DST)? Daylight saving time begins each year on the second Sunday in March.
We will always remember the Wright brothers for this feat, which took place in 1903.
Answer: What is the first (motorized) airplane flight? Both were mechanical engineers, and they designed and built their airplane.
This is the meteorological term for precipitation in the form of solid balls of ice.
Answer: What is hail? When an upward draft carries raindrops into the cold part of the atmosphere, they freeze into spheres the size of golf balls. Sometimes they grow to the size of a baseball.
Debris floating around in space is called this.
Answer: What is space junk? It includes debris from decommissioned satellites, rockets, and missiles.
This whodunit is London’s longest-running play of all time.
Answer: What is Mousetrap? The play is set in a hotel in which a murder occurs. It has been running since 1974 in the West End, London’s theater district.
The sun is directly above this on the first day of spring.
Answer: What is the equator? On the first day of spring, we get approximately 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness.
This Greek philosopher was sentenced to death after a one-day trial.
Answer: Who is Socrates? He established the Socratic method, based on asking questions as one of the tenets of critical thinking. His death sentence required him to drink hemlock.
This specific kind of landslide is defined as “a mass of material, such as snow, rock, or other debris, moving rapidly down a slope.”
Answer: What is avalanche? It’s caused by a part of the slope, hill, or mountain becoming unstable, often after a heavy rain or snowfall.
Of the moon and Pluto, it’s the larger of the two.
Answer: What is the moon? The moon’s radius is 1,110 miles (1737.5 kilometers), while Pluto’s is 1,079 miles (1,185 kilometers).
Along with Poirot, this woman is Agatha Christie’s other most popular character.
Answer: Who is Miss Marple? Poirot gained fame from more than 30 books, two plays, and more than 50 short stories. Miss Marple appears in 12 books and 20 short stories.
Spring was originally called this.
Answer: What is Lent? By the 15th century, it was called springtime; in the 16th century, it was shortened to spring.
As an artist, he was known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Answer: Who is Leonard da Vinci? Later in life, he devoted his energies to scientific study
Rainbows require this in addition to rain to exist. Answer: What is light? The water acts as a prism to refract (or bend) light and produce a rainbow.
Answer: What is light? The water acts as a prism to refract (or bend) light and produce a rainbow.
The discovery of this liquid on Mars gives hope for future colonization.
Answer: What is water? It exists on Mars in both liquid and frozen form.
Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel after a dare from this family member.
A) Mother B) Brother C) Sister
Answer: What is her sister? Christie wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles because her sister Madge dared her to write a novel. Six publishers rejected the book before it was accepted for publication.
She is the Greek goddess of spring.
Answer: Who is Persephone? Zeus is her father. According to mythology, Persephone was picking flowers when she was snatched and sent to Hades.
Thomas Edison held more than 1,000 patents, but he is best known for improving upon and producing the first commercial version of this.
Answer: What is the lightbulb? While Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb, he made significant improvements to early prototypes, finding a long-lasting filament material and improving the vacuum inside the bulb, which made it practical and accessible for everyday use.
This collapse of land can occur following a downpour of biblical proportions or for no apparent reason.
Answer: What is a sinkhole? If there is no apparent reason for the land to collapse, you can assume that water collected beneath the ground has made the surface unstable and led to the sinkhole.
This planet in our solar system has the deepest canyons and the highest mountains.
A)Saturn B)Mars C)Neptune
Answer: What is Mars? Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain on Mars, is three times taller than Mount Everest and is also a volcano.
This major American newspaper ran an obituary for Poirot when he “died.”
Answer: What is The New York Times? Poirot was killed off in 1975 in the novel Curtain. The backlash from fans was so great that the paper ran the obituary on its front page.