Spring Is in Full Swing
This is a term for a young person in poultry lingo.
What is spring chicken? When you’re healthy and fit, you feel like a spring chicken regardless of your age.
This funnel-shaped phenomenon blows through its path with fury.
What is a tornado? Tornadic winds can howl and blow at up to 300 miles per hour. While they are usually short-lived, sometimes they last for hours. It doesn’t take more than a few seconds for a tornado to leave a path of utter destruction.
Space is considered this frontier.
What is final? Unofficially, there are three “spaces”: space, outer space, and deep space. Space is generic and covers outer space and deep space. Outer space is considered anything beyond Earth, and deep space is considered far beyond Earth’s moon.
Hercule Poirot makes his most famous appearance on a train in this Agatha Christie book.
What is Murder on the Orient Express? The book tells the story of a murder on the luxury train as Poirot travels from Istanbul to Calais. It has been adapted into a play, movie, TV, graphic novel, and video game.
He was the British prime minister during World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill? When he became prime minister, he wrote, “I felt... that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.” He led Britain to victory during the war.
Fruits de mer means this.
What is “fruits of the sea”? It’s French for “seafood.”
We switch to this time in meteorological spring.
What is daylight saving time (DST)? Daylight saving time begins each year on the second Sunday in March.
This is the meteorological term for precipitation in the form of solid balls of ice.
What is hail? When an upward draft carries raindrops into the cold part of the atmosphere, they freeze into spheres the size of golf balls. Sometimes they grow to the size of a baseball.
Debris floating around in space is called this.
What is space junk? It includes debris from decommissioned satellites, rockets, and missiles.
This whodunit is London’s longest-running play of all time.
What is Mousetrap? The play is set in a hotel in which a murder occurs. It has been running since 1974 in the West End, London’s theater district.
This country’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II.
What is Japan? According to the USO, “[Japanese Adm. Isoroku] Yamamoto—the key architect of Pearl Harbor—had served as a military attaché in Washington and had traveled across the United States.”
You can defrost fish in this liquid to make it more flavorful.
What is milk? Milk contains enzymes that break down protein, making the fish tender and giving it a fresh-caught flavor.
Vernal means of this season.
What is spring? The first day of spring is the vernal equinox.
This specific kind of landslide is defined as “a mass of material, such as snow, rock, or other debris, moving rapidly down a slope.”
What is avalanche? It’s caused by a part of the slope, hill, or mountain becoming unstable, often after a heavy rain or snowfall.
Of the moon and Pluto, it’s the larger of the two.
What is the moon? The moon’s radius is 1,110 miles (1737.5 kilometers), while Pluto’s is 1,079 miles (1,185 kilometers).
Along with Hercule Poirot, this woman is Agatha Christie’s other most popular character.
Who is Miss Marple? Hercule Poirot gained fame from more than 30 books, two plays, and more than 50 short stories. Miss Marple appears in 12 books and 20 short stories.
This type of women’s swimsuit was launched in the mid-1940s.
What is bikini? Allegedly, part of the reason for the abbreviated swimsuits was fabric rationing during the war.
Fear not, Flipper! Mahi mahi comes from this fish, not the marine mammal.
What is the dolphinfish? Coryphaena hippurus, also known as the dolphinfish, can swim at speeds of up to 57.5 mph (92.6 kph)!
The sun is directly above this on the first day of spring.
What is the equator? On the first day of spring, we get approximately 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness.
Clouds get their color from these.
What are water droplets? Raindrops scatter the light that hits the water.
The discovery of this liquid on Mars gives hope for future colonization.
What is water? It exists on Mars in both liquid and frozen form.
Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel after a dare from this family member.
What is her sister? Christie wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles because her sister Madge dared her to write a novel. Six publishers rejected the book before it was accepted for publication.
“Here’s looking at you, kid,” comes from this classic 1940s-era film
What is Casablanca? The movie is set in Casablanca, Morocco, where American expats and others who were stranded in Europe during World War II fled to escape the war.
When you devein shrimp, you’re not removing a vein; you are removing this.
What is the intestinal tract? The intestinal tract is located on the back of the shrimp, just under the skin. You can ask your grocer to devein the shrimp, but there may be a charge.
Spring was originally called this.
What is Lent? By the 15th century, it was called springtime; in the 16th century, it was shortened to spring.
Rainbows require this in addition to rain to exist.
What is light? The water acts as a prism to refract (or bend) light and produce a rainbow.
This planet in our solar system has the deepest canyons and the highest mountains.
What is Mars? Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain on Mars, is three times taller than Mount Everest and is also a volcano.
This sport was Agatha Christie’s favorite beach activity.
What is surfing? She and her husband took an extended vacation to far-flung destinations, and their surfing skills improved at each destination. She was among the first British surfers who could ride the board standing up.
Completed in 1941, Mount Rushmore features these four U.S. presidents.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt?
Of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, it’s the one more often found in oily fish.
What are omega-3s? Omega-3s are good fatty acids and are more abundant in fatty fish, such as salmon. We still need omega-6 fatty acids in our diet, however. The perfect ratio is 2:1 omega-3 to omega-6.