June
Midsummer Day in June represents this.
What is the midpoint of the growing season?
This is used to measure the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
This is the strongest insect on the planet.
What is the Bull-headed dung Beetle?
This species of dung beetle (Onthophagus taurus) was found to be able to pull 1,141 times its own body weight
This quarterback and all-around nice guy played the meanest kid's coach ever in a 2007 spoof ad for United Way.
Who is Payton Manning?
Marley, the obedience school dropout that endeared himself to the Grogan family in a top-selling 2005 memoir was this breed of dog.
What is a Labrador Retriever?
He was named in honor of reggae star Bob Marley.
These are June's two zodiac signs.
What are Gemini and Cancer?
This type of weather kills the most people every year.
What is extreme heat?
This insect was the first living creature to be sent into space.
What is a Fruit fly?
This sport that combines surfing, skateboarding, and skiing was a part of the Winter Games for the first time in Nagano, in 1998.
What is snowboarding?
Men and women each competed in two events: the halfpipe and the giant slalom.
This 1992 Robert Waller novel portrayed the four-day love affair of a traveling photographer and an Iowa farmer's wife.
What is The Bridges of Madison County?
June is named after this.
Who is Juno, Goddess of Marriage?
The Saffir-Simpson Scale measures this.
What is the maximum sustained wind speed of a hurricane?
In addition to the compound eyes they use to see, insects have structures known as simple eyes used for this.
What is detecting light?
This Williams sister was the first to win a Grand Slam singles title.
Who is Serena?
She won her first Grand Slam title at 1999 U.S. Open.
This 2003 book about a Harvard codebreaker and a mystery at the Louvre was on The New York Times best-seller list for over two years.
What is The Da Vinci Code?
Author Dan Brown's books have sold over 200 million worldwide.
When Connecticut tried to ban this, the US Supreme Court struck it down on June 7, 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut.
What is birth control?
The three main tornado types.
What are rope, cone, and wedge tornadoes?
This is the loudest insect in the world.
What is a Cicada?
This 1994 tournament, played for the first time in the U.S. across nine cities, set a record with over 3.5 million people attending.
What is The World Cup?
Brazil won its fourth trophy.
Daniel Handler wrote The Bad Beginning, the first book in his series, A Series of Unfortunate Events under this pen name.
What is Lemony Snicket?
He was born on June 7, 1867 and the leader of the Prairie School architectural movement.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
The halo that often forms around the sun when it is low on the horizon is called this.
What is a sun dog?
This is the name of the greatest current threat to honeybees in the US.
What is Colony Collapse Disorder?
Shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. broke this man's record when he played in his 2,131st consecutive game.
Who is Lou Gehrig?
Ripken ended up playing 2,632 consecutive games.
This was the 2008 sequel to John Updike's 1984 novel about the three witches of Eastwick: Jane, Sukie, and Alexandra.
What is The Widows of Eastwick?
Updike was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.