Beware the Ides of March!
Perhaps the most famous event to occur on the ides of March, this famous Roman ruler was murdered in 44 B.C.E.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This school won the first NCAA basketball championship.
What is the University of Oregon?
Called “sakura,” this budding tree is Japan’s national flower.
What is the cherry blossom?
This cartoon rabbit starred in more than 150 cartoon short movies in just 24 years.
Who is Bugs Bunny?
Dirt
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To stain or defile morally
What is "soil"?
This blockbuster film overtook Star Wars as the highest grossing film in US History in 1998.
What is Titanic?
Unlike the 68 teams featured today, this many teams participated in the first NCAA championship.
8 teams?
This flower belongs to the lily family and only blooms for three to seven days in the spring. It has 150 species with over 3,000 different varieties.
What is the tulip?
This cartoon rabbit's varying schemes to obtain his one and only goal have been met with the same rebuttal since his debut in a television commercial in 1959.
Who is Silly Rabbit, or the Trix rabbit?
A box where money is kept
- or -
To break up the soil to prepare for planting
What is "till"?
NASA reported that this layer of our atmosphere was depleting 3x faster than predicted in 1988.
What is the ozone layer?
Despite his dominance in the NBA, this player only won one national championship while playing for the University of North Carolina (UNC).
Who is Michael Jordan?
This flower's bloom signals the arrival of spring. It is the flower of the month of March.
What is the daffodil?
This rabbit first appeared in advertising in 1973 and seemed to run longer than other bunnies in the commercial thanks to its superior batteries.
Who is the Energizer Bunny?
The part of a vascular plant that is above ground
- or -
To be discharged, as a firearm
What is "shoot"?
This northeastern state became the 23rd state as part of the Missouri compromise in 1820.
What is Maine?
This is the only school that has won both the women's and men's championships in the same year. (They've done it twice!)
What is the University of Connecticut (UConn)?
The concentration of aluminum in the soil determines the hue of this fragrant flower.
What is the hydrangea?
This rabbit fails to serve tea properly in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Who is the March Hare?
A group or bunch of cut flowers
- or -
To scatter in the form of fine particles
What is "spray"?
Czar Nicholas II of Russia signed abdication papers ending 304 years of this family's rule in 1917.
Who are the Romanovs?
They may have the most championship wins, but this school only mustered 20 points in a tournament loss in 1941.
What is the University of North Carolina (UNC)?
This flower gets its name for its three petals, three leaves, and three sepals.
What is the trillium?
Beatrix Potter, the author of the story about this famous rabbit, had a pet rabbit with the same name.
Who is Peter Rabbit, or Peter Cottontail?
An agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering
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A dissolute or immoral person
What is "rake"?