March's Quiz by RobinJRichards

Champion(s):

LuskT
Giggity.


Runner(s)-Up:

MichaelT
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does


Quiz Description

You know the drill....

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Questions:

The month of March gets its name from THIS ROMAN DEITY.

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Mars

March is often said to act like THESE TWO ANIMALS in terms of how it begins in the winter and ends in the spring.

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Lion and Lamb

March 2nd is Read Across America Day, created in honor of THIS AUTHOR and his many works.

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Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

People born in the first half of March are Picses, which is ruled by THIS PLANET making them "them dreamy, creative and intuitive."

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Neptune

Within four years either way, in what year did March lose its beginning of the year status when England switched over the to the Gregorian Calendar?

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1752 (1748-56) [Mar 25th was the Feast of the Annunciation and was considered New Year's Day at that time]

March is the official month honoring the lives and achievements of THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE. March 8th is the International Day honoring them as well.

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Women

The 2016 Men's NCAA Div I Basketball Tournament, AKA "March Madness," will end with the Championship to be held IN THIS CITY (albeit in April).

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Houston

Speaking of March Madness, THIS SCHOOL won their first (and to date, only) NCAA Tournament in 1939, which was in its inaugural year and held entirely within the month of March (only eight teams back then were invited).

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Oregon [They beat Ohio State 46-33]

Since you cannot have a March quiz without somehow mentioning the Ides of March: THIS 1970 SONG was the only major hit for the band The Ides of March. It reached all the way to #2 and is purported to be the fastest selling single in Warner Brothers history.

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Vehicle

March 22nd is the earliest date Easter can fall in both the Western and Orthodox calendars. Within 50 years either way, in what year did this last occur?

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1818 (1768-1868) [It won't happen again until 2285]

On March 21, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took part in their famous "bed in for peace" held at a Hilton IN THIS EUROPEAN CITY.

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Amsterdam

On March 5, 1982. THIS ACTOR was found dead from a drug overdose in Bungalow 3 of the Chateau Marmont Hotel in LA. (FIRST AND LAST NAME NEEDED).

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John Belushi