May Facts
What is the green birthstone of May?
Emerald
What flower is known as the symbol of Easter?
Lily
Which weather term does not have an NBA, NFL, MLB, or NHL team named after it?
Thunder
The Penguin, Colonel Mustard, Colonel Klink, Mr. Peanut, Count von Count, and Charlie McCarthy are a few famous fictional wearers of what optical accessory?
monocle
What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?
Everest
What day of the month is May day?
1st
Which flower’s name means “thought” in French, symbolizing remembrance and reflection?
Pansy
An anemometer is used to measure what?
wind speed
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
JAVA
What country has the most natural lakes?
Canada
Which day in this month is celebrated as Star Wars month?
May the 4th...be with you.
Which flower is traditionally used in Indian weddings for its bright colors and fragrance?
Marigold
What type of cloud makes fog?
status
While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. Deeper investigation and exploration led to the invention of what household device first marketed as the Radarange?
microwave
What is the name of the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
May is the 5th month on the calendar currently. What month was it on the Roman Calendar?
The 3rd month (there was no January or February)
Which part of the flower develops into a fruit?
The ovary
Before 1984 this was the term for northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. However, now it has shifted to include eastern Texas and Arkansas across Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. What is the name for this region?
Tornado alley
What delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?
cookie
What U.S. state is home to no documented poisonous snakes?
Alaska
What national sporting event is the first Saturday in May and only lasts a few minutes?
Kentucky Derby
What part of the flower is responsible for producing pollen?
stamen
Which US state has the "wettest" city?
Hawaii (Hilo, Hawaii, averaging 128 inches of rain annually.)
Placed in the chest to monitor and correct abnormal heart rhythms, the medical device known as an "ICD" is short for "implantable cardioverter" WHAT?
defibrillator
What is the name of the driest continent on Earth?
Antarctica