AMAZING ANIMALS
Flocks of these animals migrate north when the weather warms.
What are birds?
This is a term for two straight lines that will never cross.
What is parallel?
When people first fall in love, they feel like they are on this cloud.
What is Cloud 9?
She was Walt Disney’s favorite princess.
Who is Cinderella?
These are installed in homes to alert owners to fire.
What are smoke alarms?
March Madness refers to this sport.
What is March Madness?
Pirates wore earrings because, among other reasons, they believed it would improve this sense.
What is eyesight? They thought the metals in the earrings would cure bad vision.
They also wore them as a symbol of their travels.
You might run across this animal at night in its natural habitat, a dam it builds across a creek.
What is a Beaver?
Another term for meridians is lines of this.
What are (lines of) longitude? Meridians are imaginary lines that run north and south around the globe
This is where Batman fought crime.
What is Gotham City?
He painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci? Before it hung in the Louvre, the Mona Lisa hung in Napoleon’s bedroom. Mona Lisa is not her name; it’s Italian for “my lady Lisa.”
In 1973, the first communication from this device was completed.
What is a cell phone?
March 1 begins this meteorological season.
What is spring? Meteorological seasons are based on temperature rather than the position of the sun.
When you visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you will be warned not to feed these large carnivores.
What are Bears?
These imaginary lines run east and west from top to bottom across the globe.
What are (lines of) latitude? Latitude measures distance from the equator.
This is the fictional palace of King Arthur.
What is Camelot?
If you visit this U.S. state, you are likely to encounter a pupu platter.
What is Hawaii?
In the 1970s, McDonald’s introduced this jolly menu item that is still going strong today.
What is a happy meal?
The first day of Lent is also known as this.
What is Ash Wednesday?
These nocturnal birds are known for their sharp vision, silent flight and distinctive calls.
What are owls?
The Mason-Dixon Line is a figurative line that separates this.
What is North and South (in the United States)? It runs along the Ohio River from the Missouri-Iowa border to the East Coast.
This fictional perfect place is located high in the Tibetan mountains and is one of the settings in James Hilton’s Lost Horizons.
What is Shangri-La? It’s a fictional utopia where people live for hundreds of years.
This country on the Iberian Peninsula allows some workers to take a nap during the workday.
What is Spain?
In 1979, Sony released this device for playing cassette tapes.
What is a Walkman?
This public holiday is celebrated on March 17 in the United States, particularly so in Boston and New York City.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
This is the largest species of feline in the world.
What are Tigers?
This is another name for an oblique line.
What is slanting or diagonal? Oblique lines are straight but not horizontal or vertical.
He comes from Ork.
Who is Mork?
In the early 1970s, he was a weatherman in Nashville, Tennessee, before he became the longest-running host of a single TV game show.
Who is Pat Sajak? Sajak hosted Wheel of Fortune for 41 seasons.
This was the first kind of computer disc.
What is a Floppy Disc?
In the northern hemisphere, March is the best spring month to view these magnificent light displays in the sky.
What are the northern lights (or aurora borealis)?
One in two million lobsters is this color.
What is Blue?
Some say these theoretical straight lines connect sacred places, such as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids.
What are ley lines? Some believe that their energy produces strong magnetic fields.
This mythological Norse location is the palace home of fallen warriors.
What is Valhalla? Legend tells that the warriors will live at Valhalla until Ragnarök, or Doomsday, when they will fight once more alongside the Norse god Odin.
This bird’s eggs are bigger than its brain.
What is ostrich?
This was the first video arcade game, introduced in 1974.
Pac-Man didn’t arrive until the following year.
Though this part of the country is known for its rain, April showers come a month early to this part of the country.
What is Pacific Northwest? The March rains lead to overflowing rivers and inconvenience, but they refresh the waters and are responsible for the Pacific Northwest’s lush greenery.