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March potpourri
100

Michelle Yeoh stars in this sci-fi adventure film which won 7 awards at the 2023 ceremony, including Best Picture.

What is "Everything Everywhere All at Once"?

100

This Irish beer is known as the unofficial drink of St. Patrick's Day.

What is Guinness? 

100

This Pakistani women and girls' education activist is the world's youngest Nobel laureate.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

100

This dessert is sometimes eaten on March 14th, due to a mathematical association with the date 3.14 (as written by Americans).

What is pie? 

100

In the US and Canada, the clocks do this on the second Sunday of March.

What is go forward/ahead one hour?


200

This Canadian-American star of "The Mummy" won his first Oscar this year, for his role in "The Whale".

Who is Brendan Fraser? 

200

Shoemaking is the traditional occupation of this Irish folkloric character.

What is a leprachaun?

200

This Swedish environmental activist is known for spearheading a series of global climate strikes in 2018.

Who is Greta Thunberg? 

200

This ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims around the world as a time of fasting, will begin on March 23rd in 2023.

What is Ramadan?

200

The month of March was named after Mars, the Roman god of this.

What is war?

300

This Best Director nominee whose films include "Titanic" and the "Avatar" series was born in Kapuskasing, ON.

Who is James Cameron? 

300

According to Irish lore, St. Patrick drove this animal out of Ireland.

What are snakes?

300

Serving from June 25 to November 4, 1993, she is the first and only (so far!) female Prime Minister of Canada.

Who is Kim Campbell?

300

Of national talk like a pirate day, national cereal day, or national make up your own holiday day, it's the observance that does NOT take place in March.

What is national talk like a pirate day? (It takes place in September)

300

As the old saying goes, if March comes in like a lion, it will go out like one of these.

What is a lamb?

400

This film by director and child star of "Road to Avonlea", Sarah Polley, won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards.

What is "Women Talking"?

400

This Atlantic province with strong Irish heritage is the only place in Canada where St. Patrick's day is observed as a public holiday. 

What is Newfoundland and Labrador?

400

This late author of "Beloved" and "The Bluest Eye" was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature. 

Who is Toni Morrison? 

400

This men's college basketball tournament, with a name that stigmatises mental illness, is credited with causing a massive dip in productivity among US workers during the third month of the year.

What is March Madness (or the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament)?

400

If you are born in March, this yellow bloom is your birth flower.

What is a daffodil?

500

Domee Shi directed this Toronto-set film that was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars.

What is "Turning Red"?

500

The first St. Patrick's Day Parade took place in this country.

What is the USA? 

500

Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world's first woman prime minister when she was elected in 1960 by residents of this country formerly known as Ceylon.

What is Sri Lanka?

500

Occurring on March 19th, 20th, or 21st each year and also known as the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere, it's the time when day and night are about equal in length due to the sun's position directly above the equator.

What is the spring or vernal equinox

500

Signified by two fish, it's one of the zodiac signs you could have if you are born in March. 

What is Pisces?

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