The answers to these questions all have something to do with the name of this month. You have your marching orders! Answers appear at right.
1. What popular term refers to the annual NCAA Division 1 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments?
2. What nickname was given to John Philip Sousa for composing classics like “The Stars and Stripes Forever”?
3. What headstrong young woman was the lead character in the famous novel Little Women?
4. What devastating Union campaign ending in Savannah sought to cripple the Confederacy’s ability to wage war thus shortening the Civil War?
5. What historic 1963 event is most famous for the iconic “I Have a Dream Speech” delivered by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
6. What date is known as the “Ides of March”, historically significant for the assassination of Julius Caesar?
7. According to a popular weather saying, if March “comes in like a lion,” how does it “go out”?
8. The month of March is named after which Roman god of war?
9. What nonprofit organization was originally founded by President Roosevelt to fight polio but now dedicates its efforts to improving the health of mothers and babies?
10. What name was given to the brutal W. W. II march where approximately 75,000 U.S. and Filipino POWs were forced to walk more than 65 miles without food, water or rest?
ANSWERS:
1. March Madness
2. The March King
3. Jo March
4. Sherman’s March
5. March on Washington
6. March 15th
7. Like a lamb
8. Mars
9. March of Dimes
10. Bataan Death March
