Green
Green is the second most popular favorite color after blue.
The ladybug is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. FRANCE: ladybugs bring good weather for grapes.
Tell us why France would cherish grapes?
At midnight on New Year's Eve the Spanish eat 12 grapes to symbolize good luck for each month of the upcoming year.
What is something you do on NYE or to bring you luck?
“Irish twins” refers to one mother having two children who were born 12 months or less apart.
Tell us about your twin? Get creative...it can be a 'work twin' or a person very similar to you.
McDonalds offers a limited time Shamrock Shake, which is a creamy vanilla-mint milkshake, for the last week of February through March.
Do you think you would like a Shamrock Shake? What would be your perfect flavor of milkshake?
Kermit The Frog said "Its Not Easy Bein Green"
Tell us about your favorite muppet or puppet?
The ladybug is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. SWEDEN: a ladybug brings love when it lands on your hand and flies away unassisted
Tell us about something you love?
Dolphins were considered lucky in ancient cultures in Rome, Greece, Egypt. The belief was said to come from sailors that spent time away from land and took dolphins swimming as a sign that land was near.
Would you swim with the dolphins or any other large fish if you were immune to being hurt?
Irish superstition: ”Are your ears burning?” This ancient expression means that people are talking about you. If your left ear is warm, they’re saying nice things. But if it’s the right, they’re talking trash! It’s remembered with the rhyme, “Left for love, right for spite.”
Positive or negative, would you want to know is someone were speaking about you?
Beer is one of the most widely consumed beverages on St. Patrick’s Day.
What is your favorite beverage and what is an occasion that you like to drink it?
Green is used for night vision goggles because the eye is most sensitive and able to distinguish the most shades in that color.
Are you an early bird or a night owl? Tell us why and when you first noticed this about yourself?
The ladybug is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. GERMANY: a ladybug with 7 spots signifies good luck to the harvest.
German ladybugs need 7 spots. Tell us about a number that has significance to you and why?
Throwing a coin into a wishing well or fountain is said to get you good luck.
Tell us about a wishing well or fountain you have seen?
"Irish goodbye" refers to a person ducking out of a party, social gathering or very bad date without bidding farewell.
Tell us something negative and positive about an "Irish goodbye" ?
A leprechaun is a diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore, classed as a fairy. They are usually depicted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and hat, who partake in mischief. They are depicted as shoe-makers who have a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
If you could have a leprechaun make you a perfect pair of shoes what would they be and what would they look like?
Idiom ‘Green With Envy’ means to be very envious or jealous. Shakespeare called envy the "green sickness" in his play Anthony and Cleopatra.
Tell us about a work of Shakespeare that you know or a play?
In the American folklore, if you find a ladybug hibernating in your house, it means it will bring good luck.
Tell us about your favorite thing about your house?
In 2018, for the first time in ten years, Lucky Charms retired a marshmallow, which was the hourglass, and added a new permanent marshmallow, the Magical Unicorn.
Tell us about your favorite cereal.
The Blarney Stone is a limestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the “gift of the gab” to speak with great eloquence or skill at flattery.
What skill would you prefer and why- speaking eloquently or flattery?
Wearing green on Saint Patrick's Day is supposed to make you invisible to leprechauns. They will pinch you if you don't wear green.
What is an article of clothing that should be able to make you invisible? For what occasion would you use it?
40 pounds of green vegetable dye are used to turn the Chicago River green.
Tell us something about the Chicago River being dyed green?
Ladybugs are a symbol of good luck to farmers. Ladybugs are members of the beetle family and protect crops from insects, especially from aphids.
What insect do you find fascinating and why?
As legend goes, the Devil has a blacksmith nail a horseshoe to his cloven hoof. It was nailed on so tight that it caused excruciating pain so the devil agreed to never enter over a threshold with a horseshoe nailed over it.
Tell us something about horses. Have you been to a horse race or have you ridden a horse?
Atlantic Puffin are a breed of seabird found in cliffs in Ireland. They feed on fish and crustaceans. They can fly and are excellent swimmers. When swimming they use wings to essentially 'fly' underwater while using their feet to control direction.
If you could be a bird what would you be and why?
As legend goes, St. Patrick stood atop an Irish hillside and banished snakes from Ireland—prompting all serpents to slither away into the sea.
Tell us about your experience with snakes. Do you like snakes? Why or why not?