Spring Cleaning
To mop up a spill on a rug, take a cloth and do this.
What is blot the spill?
This color is associated with Ireland.
What is green?
This machine, with its peculiar odor, was found in every school office.
What is a mimeograph?
You don’t want to miss this museum founded by Pope Julius II.
What is the Vatican Museum?
This is the term for using long stitches to hold material together temporarily.
What is baste?
Test these mandatory lifesaving home features to see if you need to replace the battery.
What are smoke alarms?
On March 17, we all have a touch of this nationality in our blood.
What is Irish?
The 1943 penny was not made of copper; it was made of this alternate metal.
What is steel?
This is Italy’s largest island.
What is Sicily?
In the store, it’s a length of fabric wound around a cardboard tube; in nature, it’s a unit of lightning.
What is a bolt?
When the warmer weather of spring arrives, you want your ceiling fans to move air in this direction.
What is down/counterclockwise?
A shamrock has this number of leaves.
What is three?
These large stores served as anchors in malls.
What are department stores?
This Italian city is the city of canals.
What is Venice?
When you purchase a mercerized sewing necessity, you are buying this.
What is a thread?
Martha Stewart’s trick for cleaning coffee grinders is to run this food item through them.
What is bread?
Keep a close eye on this mischievous little man dressed in green, and he might reveal where he keeps his treasure.
What is a leprechaun?
These stand-up collars were popular in the 1970s.
What are Nehru collars?
This city is the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
You’d be correct if you knew this term for the pretty side of the fabric that is seen when you wear the garment.
What is the right side?
This natural abrasive can help clean a cast-iron skillet.
What is salt?
At 1,553 miles (2,500 km), Ireland is home to this scenic drive, the longest uninterrupted coastal route in the world.
What is the Wild Atlantic Way?
Car dashboards made of this material have all but disappeared.
What is wood?
This 50-kilometer coastline, stretching from Sorrento to Salerno, is breathtaking and is often photographed and painted.
What is the Amalfi Coast?
These structured folds are named after a box-shaped German musical instrument.
What are accordion pleats?