SPRING IN FULL SWING
This is a term for a young person in poultry lingo.
What is spring chicken?
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.
Space is considered this frontier.
What is final?
He was the British prime minister during World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Fruits de mer means this.
What is “fruits of the sea”?
It’s French for “seafood.”
In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy has a dog named this.
What is Toto?
He was paid $125 a week, outearning some of his human costars.
We switch to this time in meteorological spring.
What is daylight saving time (DST)?
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 country’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II.
What is Japan?
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.
This ancient civilization considered cats to be scared.
What is Ancient Egypt?
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?
Of the moon and Pluto, it’s the larger of the two.
What is the moon?
The moon’s radius is 1,110 miles while Pluto’s is 1,079 miles.
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?
For roughly what percentage of their lives do cats sleep?
70%
This is about 13 to 16 hours a day.
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.
“Here’s looking at you, kid,” comes from this classic 1940s-era film.
What is Casablanca?
When you devein shrimp, you’re not removing a vein; you are removing this.
What is the intestinal tract?
This famous sled dog is remembered for bringing a diphtheria antidote to Nome, Alaska in 1925.
Who is Balto?
He led a team of sled dogs through the final leg of 55 miles of rough and frigid terrain.
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.
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?
A cat named Stubbs held this elected position in an Alaskan town for 20 years.
What is Mayor?
Through several uncontested elections, Stubbs held this honorary office in Talkeetna, Alaska.
She is the Greek goddess of spring.
Who is Persephone?
Zeus is her father. According to mythology, Persephone was picking flowers when she was snatched and sent to Hades.
This collapse of land can occur following a downpour of biblical proportions or for no apparent reason.
What is a sinkhole?
This is the name of the longest-running satellite.
What is Vanguard 1?
It’s been in orbit since 1958.
These brothers topped the charts in 1944 with their hit “You Always Hurt the One You Love.”
Who are The Mills Brothers?
This is the best way to tell if a fish is fresh and ready to be prepared to eat.
What is the float test?
Place the fish in a pot of water. If it floats, it’s fresh; if it sinks, it’s not fresh.
In addition to cats and dogs, this US president kept pets like snakes, birds, and a badger at the White House.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?