A Touch of Blarney
This color is associated with Ireland.
What is green? The color represents the lush greenery that is characteristic of Ireland.
In 2010, a handmade set of this popular real estate game sold for $146,500 to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
What is Monopoly? The set was made in 1933 by Charles Darrow, the game’s creator.
You don’t want to miss this museum founded by Pope Julius II.
What is the Vatican Museum? If you visit every room in the museum, you will walk nine miles, and you will see an extraordinary variety of art. The Bramante Staircase is one of the most photographed features of the museum, and its spiral is dizzying.
“In like a lion and out like a lamb” refers to this.
What is March weather? The weather transition in March is significant, often marking the shift from ice and snow at the beginning of the month to milder days by the end of the month.
Which female singer was known at the Queen of Soul?
Aretha Franklin
What might happened if you're not wearing green on March 17?
You get pinched!
According to Irish-American folklore, you get pinched on St. Patrick’s Day for not wearing green because the color makes you invisible to leprechauns. These mischievous creatures are believed to pinch anyone they can see, so wearing green serves as a "shield," while not wearing it leaves you vulnerable to the pinch
This machine, with its peculiar odor, was found in every school office.
What is a mimeograph? You could smell the transfer solution for days after receiving handouts in class. You probably remember the purple print as well as the scent.
This is Italy’s largest island.
What is Sicily? The island’s capital city is Palermo. Sicily has its own language, not a dialect of Italian. Sicily is home to the best-preserved Greek ruins outside of Greece and to Syracuse, the second-most important ancient Greek city.
In the United States, the clocks “spring” this way on the second Sunday in March.
What is forward? An easy way to remember the daylight saving time changes is to think “spring forward” in the spring and “fall back” in the fall.
A shamrock has this number of leaves.
What is three? To the Irish, the three-leaf clover is associated with Saint Patrick and the Holy Trinity. A four-leaf clover symbolizes good luck.
The 1943 penny was not made of copper; it was made of this alternate metal.
What is steel? The wartime penny was coated with zinc.
This Italian city is the city of canals.
What is Venice? The city is comprised of 118 islands, all linked by the canals. When the high tide, known as acqua alta, comes in, the streets flood. Venice is built on approximately 120,000 wooden piles. Don’t miss out on a gondola ride while you’re there.
Among the first sounds of spring in many parts of the world are those of these migrating animals resting in the trees.
What are birds? Their migration can start as early as mid-February, depending on the weather and location.
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? The lucky leprechauns are part of Irish folklore. They are also referred to as “wee folk” or “little people,” and stand between two and three feet tall. You’ll often see them standing beside a pot of gold.
These large stores served as anchors in malls.
What are department stores? Most of the old department stores have either consolidated or gone out of business. Malls of the past are rare today, and many of them have been reconfigured into office space, residential buildings, and medical centers.
This city is the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence? In addition to its many museums, the city itself serves as an outdoor art gallery. You can see paintings, sculptures, and magnificent architecture. It was the home of da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Botticelli.
The saying comes from the strange behaviour of male rabbits during the breeding season. The odd behaviour includes boxing with other hares and jumping vertically for no reason.
Mad as a March hare. The odd behaviour includes boxing with other hares and jumping vertically for no reason.
St. Patrick was born here.
What is (Roman) Britain? Though he is the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick was born in Roman Britain, in what is now Scotland, around the year 385. March 17 is the day of his death as well as his Catholic feast day.
We no longer have to worry about refolding this cumbersome paper when we take a road trip.
What is a map?
Replacing paper maps, the GPS (Global positioning System) provides critical positioning capabilities to military, civil, and commercial users around the world. Although the United States government created, controls, and maintains GPS, it is freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver.
This lake area is a celebrity magnet, with George Clooney owning a vacation home there, and it has 100 miles (160 kilometers) of coastline.
What is Lake Como? The Romans built the first villas (what we call mansions) on the lake. You can travel between the lakeside cities by ferry to see the splendid architecture. You’ll spot artists along the streets, as the coastline has drawn writers, painters, musicians, and filmmakers for centuries. Ocean’s Twelve was filmed there.
The month of March was named after this Roman God.
What is Mars, the Roman god of war? March was the time of year to resume military campaigns.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
These machines were used in schools all over the world until they were replaced by smartboards and laptops.
What is an overhead projector? Although largely replaced by digital document cameras and interactive whiteboards in the 2000s, they were a staple in education and business from the 1960s to the 1990s, allowing presenters to write on or display pre-prepared, page-sized materials.
This 50-kilometer coastline, stretching from Sorrento to Salerno, is breathtaking and is often photographed and painted.
What is the Amalfi Coast? Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello are three of the 17 towns that dot the coastline with their watercolor facades overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea.
St. Patrick’s Day turns this river green, among other festivities.
Chicago River
For over 60 years, the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union 130 has dyed the Chicago River bright green for St. Patrick's Day by pouring approximately 40 pounds of environmentally safe, vegetable-based powdered dye from boats. The powder appears orange but instantly turns neon green upon touching the water.