Special Days
According to tradition, if a critter sees its shadow on February 2, there will be 6 more weeks of winter
What is Ground Hog Day?
Sharks can have as many as 5 rows of these, which fall out & grow back
What are teeth?
Any of a number of soaring birds like a hawk. E
What is an Eagle?
God Bless America, Land that I love....
Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from above.
Equal Rights! W
Wyoming
According to Many people, this home to the Boston Red Sox is the happiest place on Earth.
What is Fenway Park?
The number one board game around the world. The original version is lined with the street names of Atlantic City.
What is Monopoly?
Flag Day & Father's Day are both observed during this month
What is June?
This easy-to-grow state flower of Kansas can measure a foot across & produce nearly 1,000 seeds
What is a sunflower?
A short journey, especially one taken for pleasure. J
What is a Jaunt.
Over there, Over there, Send the word, Send the word, over there,
That the Yanks are coming the Yanks are coming, the drums rum tumming everywhere.
Excelsior! N
New York
NBA stands for this.
What is the National Basketball Association.
In this board game you can score 30 points by putting a Z on a triple letter score tile.
What is Scrabble?
The week after this holiday is National Egg Salad Week
What is Easter?
In trees such as pines & firs, the seeds form in these
What are cones?
A mammary gland, especially when baggy and with more than one teat. U
What is an Udder?
First to Fight for the right, and to build the nation's might...
And the Caisons go Rolling Along.
Eureka! C
California
This is how many holes are played in a typical round of golf.
What is 18?
This game features six categories of trivia and six pieces of the pie to gather before you can try to win.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
In 1954 Congress changed the name of Armistice Day to this
What is Veteran's Day?
A succulent can be any plant with fleshy, thick tissues adapted to store this
What is water?
A hierarchical structured secret organization usually associated with crime. M
What is the Mafia?
O beautiful, for spacious skies, for Amber waves of Grain
For purple mountains majesty, above the fruited plain...
Live Free or Die! N
New Hampshire
If you are racing in the Tour de France, you need this.
What is a Bicycle?
This two person game features quick thinking to get 4 in a row on a vertical game board.
What is Connect Four?
Varying with the local climate, the date of this tree-planting day ranges from November to May
What is Arbor Day?
Most bats are this 9-letter adjective, so they don't mind if you call them at 2 in the morning
What is nocturnal?
This is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. G
What is Gamma?
This land is your land, this land is my land
Star of the North! M
Minnesota
The Triple Crown is awarded to the horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and what other race?
What is the Belmont Stakes?
This game uses score sheets to account for the throw of multiple dice. Five of the same number and you can yell the name of the game.
What is Yahtzee!
On March 2 Texas celebrates its independence from this country
What is Mexico?
The killer whale is actually this largest member of this family
What are dolphins?
To regard with extreme repugnance or aversion. A
What is ABHOR?
You're a grand old flag, you're a high flying flag, and forever in peace may you wave
You're the emblem of, the land I love, the home of the free and the brave....
In God We Trust! F
Florida
Women were finally allowed to compete in the modern Olympics in 1900, but in only this one sport.
What is Tennis?
Play this game and you might say: Miss Scarlett in the Conservatory with the Candlestick.
What is Clue?
The half-mile route for this annual event begins at Santo Domingo Street in Pamplona
What is the Running of the Bulls?
While not all grow so quickly, one of these giant, hollow, woody grasses grew 3 feet in 1 day
What is Bamboo?
A heavy one edged sword, usually curved and carried by cavalry. S
What is a Saber?
From Detroit down to Houston, and New York to LA, well there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say....
That I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free....
God Enriches! A
Arizona
Bela Karoli was famous for coaching this sport at the Olympics from 1974-2000.
What is Women's Gymnastics?
You might get all the way from number 1 to 96 on this board game, but you might slide all the way back to number 6 and lose the game!
What is Chutes and Ladders?
Although the first celebration of this holiday occurred in October 1792, it didn't become a federal holiday until 1937
What is Columbus Day?
The Organ Pipe species of this desert plant is named for the long stems which resemble the pipes of an organ
What is cactus?
A small polished flat surface, usually in the shape of a polygon, such as the surface of a cut gemstone. F
What is a Facet?
I've got a Yankee doodle sweetheart, she's my Yankee doodle joy!
Yankee Doodle went to London just to ride the ponies, I am that Yankee Doodle boy!
The Crossroads of America. I
Indiana
This is the National Sport of Canada
What is lacrosse?
Strategy will keep your fleet afloat in this two person game of hits and misses.
What is Battleship?
Across the pond, Commonwealth Day was originally established on May 24, the birthday of this 19th century queen
Who was Queen Victoria?
Botanically, a peanut isn't a nut but one of these, like a soybean
What is a legume?
A sweet spongy yeast cake with raisins, often glazed, and usually flavored with rum. B
What is Babka?
O say can you see? By the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last gleaming.
All for our country! N
Nevada
This football team won three Superbowls in the 1990s and branded themselves as America's Team.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
This game began in India, as a way to explain war games. Today there are championships all over the world playing this two person game with rooks and bishops.
What is Chess?
In December Mexico's festival Las Posadas commemorates these 2 people's search for shelter
Who are Mary and Joseph?
When young, this sponge gourd can be eaten like squash; when old & dry it can scrub your body.
What is a Loofa?
A form of Japanese poetry that is separated into 17 syllables a line of 5, then 7, then another 5. H
What is Haiku?
My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing...
Land where my father's died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring.
With God, all things are possible. O
This team won four Super Bowls in 6 years in the 1970s.
Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers?
This game board gets laid on the ground. Body parts and colors get named as part of each turn. Don't fall down, or you're out!
What is Twister!