March Trivia
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187 free March trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free March trivia questions with answers. March is a busy month: it opens spring, brings St. Patrick's Day and shamrocks, Pi Day and Einstein's birthday, the Ides of March, Holi and Nowruz, Women's History Month, March Madness and the switch to daylight saving time. This quiz gathers all of it into one set of questions written so that kids aged about 8 to 12 can play along, with a handful of harder ones to keep the grown-ups honest. It works for classrooms, morning meetings, family dinners and senior-centre activity hours alike: the questions cover the month's name and symbols, its holidays and festivals around the world, and famous things that happened in March, from Yellowstone and the telephone patent to Barbie and the Oreo. Each answer comes with a one-line explanation, so it doubles as a fact sheet. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, mostly Wikipedia, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01How many days are there in March?
31
31: March was once the first month of the Roman year, which is why September to December, now months nine to twelve, still carry the Latin numbers seven to ten.
Q 02March is named after the Roman god of what?
War
War: Mars, who was also a guardian of Roman farming, gave his name to the month whose festivals opened the season for military campaigns.
Q 03Tradition says Rome's first calendar ran ten months from March; which two were added?
January and February
January and February are traditionally credited to Numa Pompilius, Rome's second king, who is said to have filled a winter gap that the old ten-month year had simply left uncounted.
Q 04March is the first month of which season in the Northern Hemisphere?
Spring
Spring: meteorologists count March, April and May as Northern Hemisphere spring, while in the Southern Hemisphere, from Australia to Brazil, March opens autumn.
Q 05What is the birth flower of March?
Daffodil
Daffodil: because it is among the first flowers to bloom after winter, it stands for rebirth and new beginnings; the jonquil, a close relative, is sometimes listed with it.
Q 06Which pale blue gemstone is one of March's two birthstones?
Aquamarine
Aquamarine, a blue variety of beryl named from the Latin for 'sea water', was carried by sailors as a charm they believed would keep them safe at sea.
Q 07In the old weather saying, March comes in like a lion and goes out like what?
Lamb
Lamb: the proverb says March opens with lion-like winter storms and closes with mild, lamb-like weather, a nod to how sharply the month can swing.
Q 08On what date is Saint Patrick's Day?
March 17
March 17 is the traditional date of Saint Patrick's death in the fifth century, so the feast marks the day he died rather than his birthday.
Q 09Legend says Saint Patrick drove which creatures out of Ireland and into the sea?
Snakes
Snakes: the legend has Patrick chase them into the sea, but there were none to banish, because the island never had any snakes in the first place.
Q 10Which colour was linked with Saint Patrick before green took over?
Blue
Blue: the Order of St Patrick, an order of knights founded in 1783, took sky blue as its colour, and the shade became known as St Patrick's blue.
Q 11Which American city has dyed its river green for Saint Patrick's Day since 1962?
Chicago
Chicago first dyed its river in 1962 after plumbers tracing sewage leaks with fluorescent dye noticed how vividly green it stained the water.
Q 12Which plant is the traditional emblem of Ireland, worn on Saint Patrick's Day?
The shamrock
The shamrock: Saint Patrick is said to have used its three leaves to explain the Christian Trinity, which is why it is worn on his feast day.
Q 13According to Irish folklore, a leprechaun hides a pot of gold where?
At the end of the rainbow
At the end of the rainbow: the leprechaun, a solitary fairy shoemaker, is said to hide his pot of gold there, though the gold is a late addition to much older tales.
Q 21Which president proclaimed the first National Women's History Week, held in March 1980?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter's proclamation built on a 1978 school celebration in Sonoma County, California, and by 1987 Congress had turned the week into a full Women's History Month.
Q 22International Women's Day is celebrated on which date?
March 8
March 8 became the fixed date after the 1917 Petrograd women's strike fell on that day in the Gregorian calendar; Clara Zetkin had proposed the day in Copenhagen in 1910.
Q 23Read Across America Day, on March 2, marks the birthday of which children's author?
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904, wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his publisher bet him he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words.
Q 14Irish raiders seized the teenage Saint Patrick as a slave from his home in which land?
Britain
Britain: Patrick's own Confessio says raiders took him at sixteen from his family's villa in Roman Britain, and that he herded animals in Ireland for six years before escaping.
Q 15March 14 is celebrated as the day of which mathematical constant, from its first three digits?
Pi
Pi, about 3.14159, gives the date 3/14; physicist Larry Shaw launched the first Pi Day at San Francisco's Exploratorium in 1988, with staff marching in circles and eating pie.
Q 16Which famous physicist was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879?
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein gave up his German citizenship at 16 and was stateless for five years, until Switzerland made him a citizen in 1901.
Q 17In March, the day when day and night are about equal usually falls on which date?
The 20th
The 20th is the usual date, though the calendar's leap-year cycle lets the moment slip to the 19th or the 21st in some years.
Q 18Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebrated for over 3,000 years, is timed to which event?
The equinox
The equinox: the new year starts at the exact moment it occurs, and families set out a haft-sin table of seven symbolic items to welcome it.
Q 19Holi, the Hindu festival that usually falls in March, is famous for people throwing what at each other?
Coloured powder
Coloured powder, called gulal, is thrown along with coloured water on Holi, which marks spring and the burning of the demoness Holika the night before.
Q 20In the United States, clocks go forward for daylight saving time on which day of March?
Second Sunday
Second Sunday: the Energy Policy Act of 2005 moved the change forward from April's first Sunday, starting in 2007, and pushed the autumn change back to November's first Sunday.
Q 24'The Ides of March' is famous as the date in 44 BC when which Roman leader was assassinated?
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was stabbed by a group of senators led by Brutus and Cassius, who meant to save the Republic; the civil wars that followed finished it off instead.
Q 25March Madness is the nickname of the national championship tournament in which college sport?
Basketball
Basketball: the nickname was coined in 1939 for Illinois high school tournaments, and broadcaster Brent Musburger later carried it over to the NCAA's college games.
Q 26Which park, created on March 1, 1872, is widely regarded as the world's first national park?
Yellowstone
Yellowstone was so overrun by poachers and souvenir hunters in its first years that the US Army was sent in to protect it in 1886 and stayed for three decades.
Q 27Which planet did William Herschel discover on March 13, 1781, the first found with a telescope?
Uranus
Uranus: Herschel spotted it from his garden in Bath, England, and first reported it as a comet; it was the first planet discovered since antiquity.
Q 28Alexander Graham Bell received the first U.S. patent for which invention on March 7, 1876?
The telephone
The telephone: Bell's patent, granted on March 7, 1876, was titled 'Improvement in Telegraphy'; three days later he made the first call, summoning his assistant with 'Mr. Watson, come here.'
Q 29Which toy company launched the Barbie doll at the New York Toy Fair on March 9, 1959?
Mattel
Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler created Barbie after watching her daughter Barbara give her paper dolls grown-up roles, and named the doll after her.
Q 30Which cookie was first sold on March 6, 1912, to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey?
Oreo
Oreo: Nabisco launched it as an imitation of Hydrox, a sandwich cookie from 1908, yet Oreo sold so much better that many people took Hydrox for the copy.