A BREAK FOR SPRING
AROUND THE HOUSE
WHERE YOU GO FROM HERE
MARCH MADNESS
100

This 4-word phrase tells you how to adjust your clocks when daylight saving time begins & ends

spring forward, fall back
100

As a verb it's what you're supposed to do to excel in school; as a noun, it's a room for reading

(a) study

100

You are going to Disney World! Well, at least a stopover at MCO airport in this city

Orlando

100

You fill these out to participate in an NCAA hoops March Madness pool (purely for fun, with no betting, of course)

brackets

200

MLB fans are full of boundless optimism during this, another term for baseball's preseason

spring training

200

One of the 7 deadly sins, or a mirrored dressing table that's great for applying make-up

(a) vanity

200

This largest Turkish city is the last stop on the Orient Express

Istanbul

200

Before becoming a true Warrior, this sharpshooter was a Wildcat in leading 10th-seeded Davidson to the Elite Eight in 2008

Steph Curry

300

Spring begins officially at this cosmic moment of equal parts day & night

equinox

300

Dad loves his heavy new black skillet made of this type of "iron"; he seasons it with oil to keep it like new

cast iron

300

Taking the Oregon Trail from its start has you heading out of Independence in this state

Missouri

300

The second movement of his Third Symphony, the "Eroica", is a funeral march

Beethoven

400

A state flower, the California species of this blooms in great numbers in the spring

poppy

400

Polycarbonate windows function as this, any material that keeps heat in during winter, out during summer

insulator

400

If you take a shortcut south through the Suez Canal, you end up in this sea

the Red Sea

400

 It's likely no team will break the record of 7 titles in a row won by this West Coast squad from 1967 to 1973

UCLA

500

The modern tradition of spring break began in the 1930s as part of a swim meet in this Florida city named for a military man

Fort Lauderdale

500

This word means "designed for work", yet Uncle Joe has that type of recliner in which he does none

ergonomic 

500

You get a free trip to this large island, but I'm not sure if it's the Indonesia side or the Papua side

New Guinea

500

Had Julius Caesar heeded the warning about this day, he might have survived it

the ides of March

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