Try 30 March trivia questions about this month’s calendar, observances, history, and sky. Dates and seasonal questions are worded to stay accurate from year to year.
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March on the calendar
- How many days are in March?
Answer: 31. Source - Which numbered month is March in the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: The third. Source - Which season begins around the March equinox in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: Spring. Source - Which season begins around the March equinox in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Autumn (fall). Source - At an equinox, the Sun crosses which imaginary line around Earth?
Answer: The equator. Source - Name one of the two traditional March birthstones.
Answer: Aquamarine (bloodstone is also accepted). Source - Which green-and-red gemstone is also a traditional March birthstone?
Answer: Bloodstone. Source - Which mathematical constant is celebrated on March 14 because 3/14 resembles its first digits?
Answer: Pi. Source
March celebrations
- What Irish national holiday is observed on March 17?
Answer: St. Patrick’s Day. Source - Which U.S. college basketball tournament is nicknamed March Madness?
Answer: The NCAA Division I basketball tournament. Source - What is the date of World Wildlife Day?
Answer: March 3. Source - Which international observance falls on March 8?
Answer: International Women’s Day. Source - What international day honors women judges on March 10?
Answer: International Day of Women Judges. Source - What UN observance on March 20 focuses on well-being and joy?
Answer: International Day of Happiness. Source - Which March 21 observance focuses on woodland ecosystems?
Answer: International Day of Forests. Source - Which literary art has its UNESCO world day on March 21?
Answer: Poetry. Source - Which March 21 observance raises awareness of trisomy 21?
Answer: World Down Syndrome Day. Source - Which resource is the focus of World Water Day on March 22?
Answer: Water. Source - What field is celebrated on World Meteorological Day, March 23?
Answer: Meteorology (weather and climate science). Source - Which infectious disease is the focus of a world day on March 24?
Answer: Tuberculosis. Source - What is the date of the International Day of Zero Waste?
Answer: March 30. Source
March history
- Which U.S. national park was established on March 1, 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone National Park. Source - Which 1770 Boston confrontation between British soldiers and colonists occurred on March 5?
Answer: The Boston Massacre. Source - What 1965 civil-rights march was attacked on March 7 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Answer: The Selma-to-Montgomery voting-rights march, on the day known as Bloody Sunday. Source - Who made the first spacewalk on March 18, 1965?
Answer: Alexei Leonov. Source - The United States signed a treaty to purchase which territory from Russia on March 30, 1867?
Answer: Alaska. Source - In which year was the first known Pi Day celebration held on March 14?
Answer: 1988. Source - Which scientist announced the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium on March 24, 1882?
Answer: Robert Koch. Source - Which inventor called to his assistant Thomas Watson through an experimental telephone on March 10, 1876?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell. Source - Which New York garment factory was devastated by a fire on March 25, 1911?
Answer: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Source
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