Spring Is in Full Swing
This is a term for a young person in poultry lingo.
What is spring chicken? When you’re healthy and fit, you feel like a spring chicken regardless of your age.
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. It doesn’t take more than a few seconds for a tornado to leave a path of utter destruction.
Space is considered this frontier.
What is final? Unofficially, there are three “spaces”: space, outer space, and deep space. Space is generic and covers outer space and deep space. Outer space is considered anything beyond Earth, and deep space is considered far beyond Earth’s moon.
He was the British prime minister during World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill? When he became prime minister, he wrote, “I felt... that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.” He led Britain to victory during the war.
What is the traditional drink of the Kentucky Derby?
Mint Julep: Made from bourbon, sugar, mint leaves
We switch to this time in meteorological spring.
What is daylight saving time (DST)? Daylight saving time begins each year on the second Sunday in March.
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? According to the USO, “[Japanese Adm. Isoroku] Yamamoto— the key architect of Pearl Harbor—had served as a military attaché in Washington and had traveled across the United States.”
What is the name of the racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is held?
Churchill Downs
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.
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? It’s caused by a part of the slope, hill, or mountain becoming unstable, often after a heavy rain or snowfall.
Of the moon and Pluto, it’s the larger of the two.
What is the moon? The moon’s radius is 1,110 miles (1737.5 kilometers), while Pluto’s is 1,079 miles (1,185 kilometers).
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.
What fashion accessory would a Derby goer NOT be without?
Hat!
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.
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? The movie is set in Casablanca, Morocco, where American expats and others who were stranded in Europe during World War II fled to escape the war.
What three races make up the Triple Crown?
Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont
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.
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?
How much does it cost to enter a horse into the Kentucky Derby?
$25,000
The Kentucky Derby winner receives $1.8 million!