Lent
The amount of days in the season of Lent
40
The first head of the church
The average weight of a cumulus cloud
One million pounds
The mascot of Howard University
The date of International Women's Day
March 8
The three pillars of Lent
fasting, prayer, and almsgiving
The patron saint of education
St. Thomas Aquinas
Mandarin Chinese
The motto of Howard University
Veritas et Utilitas (Truth and Service)
The year women gained the right to vote in the United States
1920
The nickname of the day before Ash Wednesday
Fat Tuesday
The first African American priest
Fr. Augustus Tolton
The rarest country on country flags
Purple
The number of D9 fraternities and sororities founded at Howard University
5
The leaders of the women's suffrage movement
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The origin of the term Lent
the Anglo-Saxon word 'lencten', meaning "spring" or "lengthening"
The first Black Saint
St. Martin de Porres
The length of world's shortest war
The namesake of Howard University
Oliver Howard
First state to grant women suffrage
Wyoming
The word traditionally omitted from the liturgy during Lent
Alleluia/Hallelujah
The Saintly Seven
The seven African American candidates for sainthood [Pierre Toussaint, Augustus Tolton, Henriette Delille, Mary Lange, Julia Greeley, Thea Bowman, Matthias Ward (Martin Maria de Porres Ward)]
This president married his distant cousin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Howard University Founder's Day
March 2, 1867
The first woman to become a millionaire
Madame CJ Walker