SINGING OF SPRING
1880 song featured in many films: “While strolling through the park one day, in the merry, merry month of ___________.
May
It’s likely that this spring flower was first imported to Holland from Turkey in the 1500s.
Tulip
Second only to Washington, this is the most common city name in the United States – just ask Homer Simpson.
Springfield
This president spent a great deal of his time in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he tried to regain strength in his legs, which had been weakened by polio, by bathing and exercising in the hot springs water there.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm stoked, I'm excited, I'm this--cue Miles Davis
Jazzed
1957 Pat Boone hit: “ __________ love is for the very young. Every star’s a wishing star that shines for you.”
April
This spring flower, sometimes called a jonquil, looks a bit like a cup and saucer.
Daffodil
College students flood Daytona Beach in Florida each year during this March or April vacation period.
Spring Break
In the 1930s, Palm Springs, California became a popular get-away home for movie stars such as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Clark Gable. It became more widely known in the 1960s, when a professional golf tournament held there was named after this famous comedian and avid golfer.
Bob Hope
The mystic square is a type of one
1945 number from Carousel: “_________ is bustin' out all over. All over the meadow and the hill!”
June
This yellow blooming shrub was named after Scottish botanist William Forsyth.
Forsythia
This Chinese appetizer is traditionally associated with the Chinese New Year.
Spring Rolls
This suburb, due north of Washington, DC, is mostly “inside the beltway,” although it is located in Maryland. (Sadly, the spring it was named after dried up long ago.)
Silver Spring
Spring buds were blooming, but "The Great" one of these of March 1888 was one of the worst ever in American history
Blizzard
1955 standard by Count Basie (and many others). “_________ in Paris. This is a feeling. No one can ever reprise.”
April
This is one of the earliest spring flowers. It is also the source of saffron, which is among the most expensive spices in the world.
Crocus
This medium-sized spaniel was bred as a loyal companion and hunting dog that would flush hiding birds into the air.
Springer Spaniel (English Springer Spaniel or Welsh Springer Spaniel is also correct.)
Mineral springs have made this upstate New York city a popular resort destination for over 200 years. It is also home to a top thoroughbred horse racing track, a performing arts center, and Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs
It means gray, usually when referring to hair
Grizzled (or Grizzly)
1965 Simon & Garfunkel lyrics: In “April, Come She Will,” this month “will stay” and this month will “change her tune.”
“May, she will stay,” and “June, she’ll change her tune.”
‘When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,’ was poet Walt Whitman’s elegy to this fallen US president.
Abraham Lincoln
This is a summer Olympic diving event … or, the beginning from which a project or enterprise is launched.
Springboard
Located roughly in this country’s geographic center, Alice Springs was a key setting of Nevil Shute’s 1950 novel A Town Like Alice, which was also made into a mini-series that aired on PBS in 1981.
Australia
Sailors in the British Royal Navy have been known to shout this joyous exclamation
Huzzah!