The Nature of Things
This sweet food is made by bees.
Answer: What is honey? Honey never goes bad because it is inhospitable to bacteria.
This is the base number of innings in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game.
Answer: What is nine? The games sometimes go into more innings to break a tie. The MLB game with the most innings was played in 1920 between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Robins. It ran for 26 innings and would have gone longer if it had not been called due to darkness.
This 1985 film is based on a board game whodunit.
Answer: What is Clue? The movie has three endings.
A baby cow is called this.
Answer: What is a calf? A calf weighs 60–100 pounds at birth.
This first leg of the Triple Crown takes place on the first Saturday in May.
Answer: What is the Kentucky Derby? It’s also known as the Running of the Roses or the Run for the Roses.
It is the hardest gem in the world.
Answer: What is diamond? The stone is made entirely of carbon.
Russia has the largest reserve of diamonds—650 million carats out of an estimated 1.2 billion carats in the ground.
When we do something at the very last minute, it is called doing it at this hour.
When we do something at the very last minute, it is called doing it at this hour.
This granddaddy-of-them-all sleuth was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Answer: Who is Sherlock Holmes? As of 2021, the Sherlock character has appeared in 226 films.
Farm animals with curly tails.
Answer: What are pigs (or hogs or swine)? Pigs are smarter than dogs, and you can train them.
For the entire month of May, we raise awareness of this type of health.
Answer: What is mental? It’s National Mental Health Month.
Found in the northern hemisphere, this is the world’s biggest island.
Answer: What is Greenland? Eighty percent of the island is covered in ice. Of its 56,000 inhabitants, 17,000 live in the capital city of Nuuk.
Those who are intuitive are said to have this sense.
Answer: What is sixth? It can refer to a spiritual experience.
Agatha Christie’s highly rated mystery takes place on this train.
Answer: What is the Orient Express? In the 1974 film version, Ingrid Bergan won an Academy Award.
Small farm animal that is one of the closest living relatives to the T-rex.
Answer: What is chicken? Some chickens lay green and blue eggs.
On May 15, we celebrate this natural phenomenon, something Judy Garland made famous in a tune that ends with “Why, oh why can’t I?”
What is rainbow? The day is Over the Rainbow Day, and the tune is “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
This country owns almost all the pandas of the world.
Answer: What is China? They loan their 1,600 pandas to other countries but retain ownership of them. They call it panda diplomacy.
People often don’t want to play this fiddle with their spouse.
Answer: What is second? The term comes from the orchestra’s second violin section, which plays a supporting role.
This 1963 classic stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn and is set in Paris.
Answer: What is Charade? Other cast members of note include Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, and James Coburn. It has been called “the best Alfred Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock didn’t make.”
Baby horse
Answer: What is a foal? A foal’s legs are 80–90% the size of its adult legs at birth, and they can walk within an hour or two of birth.
May 2 honors these family members.
Answer: What are siblings (or brothers and sisters)? The day is Sibling Appreciation Day, and it’s also Teacher Appreciation Day.
Baby owls are mostly called this.
Answer: What are owlets? A female owl is called an owl hen, and a male owl is called an owl coco. Owlets remain with their parents from four to 10 weeks, depending on the species.
A statement or issue known as this rail is bound to be controversial and could lead to the end of a politician’s career or destroy someone’s credibility.
Answer: What is third? There’s another meaning: It’s an additional rail that uses electricity to power subways.
This fictional writer is the grand dame of sleuths and resides in Cabot Cove, Maine.
Answer: Who is Jessica Fletcher? The TV drama is Murder She Wrote, and Jessica Fletcher is played by Angela Lansbury. She always outwits the police and solves the crime long before they do.
The pickiest eater of the farm animals.
Answer: What is a goat? They don’t eat contaminated food or food that is found on the ground or floor. They also prefer more nutritious foods. Contrary to popular belief, they do not eat tin cans.
We begin and end with observances—May 1 is this observance, and the last Monday in May is this observance.
Answer: What are May Day and Memorial Day? Memorial Day honors all military members who died while serving, not just those who died while serving in wars. May Day was traditionally a day to herald the changing of the seasons but later became a commemoration of workers’ rights.