St. Patrick's Day
This city pours 40 tons of green dye into a river for St. Patrick's Day.
What is Chicago?
During this time of the year, people everywhere are filling out these, the name for the systematic way the NCAA basketball playoffs are held.
What are brackets?
This spring toy that can be sent down steps.
What is a Slinky?
This is Bob Stevens' wife's name.
What is Dorothy?
A famous director known for ET and Jaws
Who is Steven Spielberg?
For most of the 20th century, Saint Patrick’s Day was considered a strictly religious holiday in Ireland, which meant that this was prohibited.
What is drinking alcohol?
The tournament is broken up into four conferences determined by area. Each conference has a #1 seeded team, the best team record, all the way down to this number seed, the worst team record.
What is #16 seed?
This spring-loaded writing utensil
What is a retractable pen?
Bob Stevens wore this uncommon accessory almost everyday.
What are suspenders?
A famous author known for Cujo and The Shining.
Who is Stephen King?
According to legend, leprechauns spend their days making and repairing these, so you can’t blame them for being territorial about their pots of gold.
What are shoes?
This is the special name given to the bracket when there are only four teams left in the tournament.
What is the Final Four?
This spring that provides water to drink
What is a natural spring?
This was Bob Stevens' favorite board game and, man, was he good at it! He even beat me!
What is Scrabble?
A famous actor known for Bullitt and The Great Escape
Who is Steve McQueen?
According to Irish legend, the saint used this as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity when he was first introducing Christianity to Ireland.
What are shamrocks?
In 1985, Villanova University was the lowest seeded team to ever win the tournament. They were this number seed.
What is #8 seed?
This spring you sleep on
What is a mattress spring?
Bob Stevens spent a lot of his time in this special room down in the basement of Browning... Along with another Bob.
What is the woodshop room?
A famous theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author known for having ALS and a speech machine controlled by a cheek muscle
Who is Stephen Hawking?
A 2012 estimate pegged the total amount spent on beer for Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations around the world at this amount.
What is $245 million?
In this year, an #11 seeded Loyola-Chicago made it to the final four, the lowest seeded team to ever do so. Throughout the tournament, a 98 year old nun named Jean Dolores Schmidt got tons of attention and was deemed the school's biggest fan.
What is 2018?
This small spring-loaded contraption found in every high school hallway
What is a padlock or combination lock?
Every single time the kitchen would have pizza on the menu, Bob Stevens brought this down to drink.
What is a beer?
A famous naturalist, zoologist and conservationist known for being crazy and getting WAY too close to deadly animals
Who is Steve Irwin?