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The Spring Garden
Spring Holidays
Spring Cleaning
Spring Menu
Spring Awakening
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Buttercrunch, romaine and iceberg are a few of the varieties of this spring vegetable. It makes a great salad or adds a little crunch to your sandwich.

What is Lettuce?

100

This holiday has a season that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends 40 days later on Easter.

What is Lent?

100
Stripping bed linens and flipping the ______is part of thoroughly cleaning the bedroom.
What is matress.
100
This meal, although not truly Irish, is eaten on St. Patrick's day.
What is Corned Beef and Cabbage. Members of the Irish working class in New York City frequented Jewish delis and lunch carts, and it was there that they first tasted corned beef. It was a tasty and cheaper alternative to pork and potatoes.
100
_______ come out of __________ in the Spring after a long nap which begins in November and often lasts through March especially when the mother has cubs.
What are Bears / Hibernation?
200
These fruits are ready to harvest at the end of Spring in warmer areas including the popular Bing and Ranier varieties.
What are cherries?
200
This day commemorates ____ ______ and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. It also celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations usually involve public parades and festivals and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks.[
Who is St. Patrick ?
200
Products like "Easy-Off" make the chore of cleaning the _______ a little easier. Most of these appliances are now equipped with a self-cleaning feature.
What is the oven.
200
Roasted Egg, Chazeret, Zeroa, Charoset, Karpas and Maror are all served during this Passover meal.
What is the Seder meal ?
200
In the spring, the winter coat of dogs and cats_______ to make way for the lighter, summer coat. Because the winter coat is much thicker, there will be much more fur falling in the spring.
What is shed?
300
These pretty little flowers, often the first you'll see, may be found pushing up through melting snow.
What are crocus'?
300
This eight-day festival is celebrated in the early spring. It commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.
What is Passover?
300
True or false: The origin of spring cleaning traces back to the ancient Jewish practice of thoroughly cleansing the home in anticipation of the feast of Passover.
What is True.
300
Many Christians abstain and fast during ____. Only certain foods are permitted to be eaten on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all other Fridays during _____.
What is Lent. Only the meat of warm-blooded animals is prohibited. Fish,eggs, butter, and milk are also allowed.
300
_______ are small chorus frogs widespread throughout the eastern USA and Canada. They are so called because of their chirping call that marks the beginning of spring.
What are Spring Peepers ?
400
This citrus fruit reaches the end of it's season in the Spring. When squeezed it produces a delicious juice.
What are Navel Oranges
400
The American incarnation of_______ ___ was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. While dates vary, this holiday most commonly falls on the second Sunday in May and traditionally involves presenting flowers, cards and other gifts to a special woman.
What is Mother's Day?
400
This all-day job involves two main tasks: Taking down the ______ to be washed and dried (and possibly ironed) and then cleaning the _______ so the glass is clear and easy to see through.
What are curtains / windows.
400
Combining ____ with mint is an old English tradition. Long ago, ____ was born only in the spring, about the time when sprigs of mint began shooting up in the gardens.
What is Lamb? The meat was tough, gamey and stringy. When it came to the table, the meat was usually gray-brown, overdone and reeking of mutton. Enter mint sauce.
400
Finish this quote from the works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: “In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to ________ __ ____.”
What are "thoughts of love".
500
With a sharp but sweet flavor, they are a versatile and delicious root vegetables. Small, tender varieties are grown for human consumption, while larger varieties are grown as feed for livestock. ( Peter Cottontail often found these in Mr. MacGregor's garden along with carrots)
What are Turnips
500
This is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. It is observed every year on the last Monday of May.
What is Memorial Day? It was previously known as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868. By the 20th century, Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in military service.
500
The__________is a tool that was in common use until the vacuum cleaner became affordable during the early 20th century. Carpets, rugs, clothes, cushions, and bedding were hung over a clothesline or railing and the dust and dirt was beaten out of them.
What is a Carpet beater. Typically made of wood, rattan, cane, wicker, spring steel or coiled wire, antique rug beaters have become very collectible. Modern mass-production versions can also be plastic or wire.
500
Spring _____ have been a popular snack in Asia for centuries. It is believed that they originated in China. Starting as a pancake, it is filled with the new season's spring vegetables, a welcome change from the preserved foods of the long winter months.
What are Spring Rolls?
500
_________ butterflies begin their journey from their wintering ground in Mexico back north in the Spring.
What are Monarch Butterflies