Holidays
This Irish holiday is celebrated every year on March 17th.
St. Patrick's Day
This prince is the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II. He was born on March 10, 1964.
Prince Edward
This city dyes their river green in honor of St. Patrick's Day
Chicago
What falls, but never gets hurt?
Rain
This holiday is the day in which clocks "spring forward" an hour to give an extra hour of sunlight.
Daylight Saving Time
This Scottish-born inventor of the telephone, photo phone, graphophone, microphone and a host of other really useful phones. He was born March 3, 1847
Alexander Graham Bell
The birth flower for March is associated with rebirth and new beginnings
The daffodil
Why is the letter A like a flower?
Because a B comes after it!
This holiday is is the final day of Carnival; it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. It is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to it being the last day of consuming rich, fatty foods, most notably red meat, in preparation for the Christian fasting season of Lent, during which such foods are avoided.
Mardi Gras?
This theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity spent his childhood in Germany, but left Europe when Hitler came to power in 1933 and became an American citizen in 1940. He was born March 14, 1879.
Albert Einstein
These are the two birthstones for the month of March
Aquamarine and Bloodstone
What kind of bow cannot be tied?
A rainBOW
This holiday marks the sun's crossing over the equator, moving from south to north.
Vernal Equinox, first day of spring
This German composer was renowned as a gifted organist during his lifetime, but the genius of his compositions was only recognized after his death. He was born March 21, 1685
Johann Sebastian Bach
This math holiday is celebrated every March on the 14th
Pi Day! (3.14)
Why do bees always have sticky hair?
They use a honeycomb!
This holiday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and marks the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter.
Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent
Born in Savannah, Georgia, this woman wrote two novels and 32 short stories—many of which are considered master examples of the Southern Gothic style—before she died at age 39. She was born March 25, 1925
Flannery O'Connor
During March, this is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
March Madness
When is the best time to buy a trampoline?
Spring!