4/1 - April Fool's
April Fool's Day closely follows this day that separates two seasons.
What is Vernal Equinox?
The temperature can drop this many degrees or more during a total solar eclipse.
What is 20 degrees?
What do Hardee’s, Applebee’s, Red Lobster, Firehouse Subs, Burger King, and Wendy’s offer on Tax Day?
Free or Discounted Food!
This film starring Robin Williams is best known for its famous desk standing scene of the Walt Whitman poem “Oh Captain! My Captain!”.
What is Dead Poet's Society?
What year was the first Earth Day?
1970
Many ancient cultures celebrated April 1 as this holiday.
What is New Year's Day?
A solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse will always precede or follow the other by about this many weeks.
What is 2 weeks?
Both the national income tax and the IRS started as temporary measures to collect funds to fight what war?
The Civil War
Which TSWIFT album has the song "My Tears Ricochet" on it?
Folklore
What region on Earth produces 20% of the planet's oxygen?
The Amazon Rainforest
April Fool's Day is generally observed by playing these.
What are Practical Jokes?
Even during a 99 percent partial solar eclipse, the Sun is still this many times brighter than during totality.
What is 10,000 times?
This famous scientist found income tax rules more difficult to decipher than theoretical physics.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Who is "some actress"?
Which bestselling book warning of the effects of pesticides was a precursor to the founding of Earth Day?
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Who said "April 1st is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
Mark Twain
People who travel around the world to observe total solar eclipses are called this.
What is "umbraphiles"?
This percentage of tax returns are expected to be filed electronically this year.
What is 92%?
Located within the Irish province of Munster, what city in Ireland is also a type of five-line poem which famously follows an AABBA rhyming scheme?
Limerick
The first Earth Day eventually led to the creation of which US government agency?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
In what country do people throw flour at their friends on April Fool's Day?
Portugal
A solar eclipse can occur on every planet in our solar system except for Mercury and Venus. Why?
Because Mercury and Venus have no moons.
The number of words in the Tax Code (2x the 5 Games of Thrones books combined)!
What is 4.1 million?
Which Greek epic poem is believed to include the first written reference to earplugs, which are suggested to the tale’s protagonist as a way to avoid the fatal call of the Sirens?
The Odyssey
When did Google introduce their first Earth Day doodle?
2001