Nature of Things
This sweet food is made by bees.
What is honey?
Fun Fact: Honey never goes bad because it is inhospitable to bacteria.
This is the base number of innings in a Major League Baseball game.
What is nine?
Fun Fact: The MLB game with the most innings was played in 1920 between the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins. It lasted 26 innings.
This 1985 film is based on a board game whodunit.
What is Clue?
What is a calf?
This first leg of the Triple Crown takes place on the first Saturday in May.
What is the Kentucky Derby?
It is the hardest gem in the world.
What is a diamond?
When we do something at the last minute, it is called doing it at this hour.
What is the 11th hour?
Agatha Christie's highly-rated mystery takes place on this train.
What is the Orient Express?
Fun Fact: Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for the 1974 film version.
A baby horse.
What is a foal?
Fun Fact: A foal's legs are 80-90% the size of its adult legs at birth and they can walk within an hour or two.
On May 14, the world honors the migratory species of these animals.
What are birds?
Found in the northern hemisphere, this is the world's biggest island.
What is Greenland?
Fun Fact: Eighty percent of the island is covered in ice.
Those who are intuitive are said to have this sense.
What is a sixth sense?
This sleuth was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Farm animals with curly tails.
What are pigs?
For the entire month of May, we raise awareness for this type of health.
What is mental health?
The country owns almost all the pandas in the world.
What is China?
Fun Fact: China loans 1600 pandas to other countries but retains ownership. They call it "panda diplomacy."
People often don't want to play this fiddle with their spouse.
What is second fiddle?
This term comes from the orchestra's second violin section, which plays a supporting role.
This fictional writer is the grand dame of sleuths and resides in Cabot Cove, Maine.
Who is Jessica Fletcher?
Fun Fact: You can watch Murder She Wrote every Monday at 3 p.m. in the parlor and it is Cheryl's favorite show!
A baby sheep.
What is a lamb?
May 2nd honors these family members.
What are siblings?
Baby owls are mostly called this.
What are owlets?
Fun fact: A female owl is called al owl hen; male owls are called an owl coco.
This is the degree of the most serious burn.
What is fourth?
Fourth degree burns can damage the underlying organs.
In this 1978 film, Hercule Poirot is pressed into action while on an Egyptian river cruise when a newlywed is found dead.
What is Death on the Nile?
Small farm animal that is one of the closest living relatives to a T-Rex.
What is a chicken?
May begins and ends with these observances.
What are May Day and Memorial Day?