Spring Is in Full Swing
Weird but True Weather
Space
Agatha Christie
1940s Trivia
Fruits de Mer
100

This is a term for a young person in poultry lingo.

What is spring chicken?

100

 This funnel-shaped phenomenon blows through its path with fury.

What is a tornado?

100

Space is considered this frontier.

What is final?

100

Hercule Poirot makes his most famous appearance on a train in this Agatha Christie book.

What is Murder on the Orient Express?

100

He was the British prime minister during World War II.

Who is Winston Churchill?

100

Fruits de mer means this.

What is “fruits of the sea”? It’s French for “seafood.”

200

We switch to this time in meteorological spring.

What is daylight saving time (DST)?

200

This is the meteorological term for precipitation in the form of solid balls of ice.

What is hail?

200

Debris floating around in space is called this.

What is space junk?

200

This whodunit is London’s longest-running play of all time.

What is Mousetrap?

200

This country’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II.

What is Japan?

200

You can defrost fish in this liquid to make it more flavorful.

What is milk?

400

Vernal means of this season.

What is spring?

400

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?

400

Of the moon and Pluto, it’s the larger of the two.

What is the moon?

400

Along with Hercule Poirot, this woman is Agatha Christie’s other most popular character.

Who is Miss Marple?

400

This type of women’s swimsuit was launched in the mid-1940s.

What is bikini?

400

Fear not, Flipper! Mahi mahi comes from this fish, not the marine mammal.

What is the dolphinfish?

600

 The sun is directly above this on the first day of spring.

What is the equator?

600

Clouds get their color from these.

What are water droplets or light?

600

The discovery of this liquid on Mars gives hope for future colonization.

What is water?

600

Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel after a dare from this family member.

What is her sister?

600

“Here’s looking at you, kid,” comes from this classic 1940s-era film.

What is Casablanca?

600

When you devein shrimp, you’re not removing a vein; you are removing this.

What is the intestinal tract?

800

Spring was originally called this.

What is Lent?

800

Rainbows require this in addition to rain to exist.

What is light?

800

This planet in our solar system has the deepest canyons and the highest mountains.

What is Mars?

800

This sport was Agatha Christie’s favorite beach activity.

What is surfing?

800

Completed in 1941, Mount Rushmore features these four U.S. presidents.

Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt?

800

Of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, it’s the one more often found in oily fish.

What are omega-3s?

1000

She is the Greek goddess of spring.

Who is Persephone?

1000

This collapse of land can occur following a downpour of biblical proportions or for no apparent reason.

What is a sinkhole?

1000

This is the name of the longest-running satellite.

What is Vanguard 1?

1000

This major American newspaper ran an obituary for Hercule Poirot when he “died.”

What is The New York Times?

1000

These brothers topped the charts in 1944 with their hit “You Always Hurt the One You Love.”

Who are The Mills Brothers?

1000

This is the best way to tell if a fish is fresh and ready to be prepared to eat.

What is the float test?