140 free March trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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
March is one of seven months with 31 days; it was also the first month of the year in the earliest Roman calendar.
Q 02March is named after the Roman god of what?
War
Mars gave his name to the month, and to the planet; his festival month opened the season for military campaigns.
Q 03In the earliest Roman calendar, which month was the first of the year?
March
That is why September, October, November and December have names meaning seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth.
Q 04March is the first month of which season in the Northern Hemisphere?
Spring
South of the equator, in places like Australia and Brazil, March is the first month of autumn instead.
Q 05What is the birth flower of March?
Daffodil
The daffodil is also the national flower of Wales, whose patron saint's day falls on 1 March.
Q 06Which pale blue gemstone is one of March's two birthstones?
Aquamarine
The name comes from Latin for 'sea water'; the other March stone is bloodstone.
Q 07Finish the old weather saying: 'March comes in like a lion and goes out like a...'
Lamb
The idea is that March starts with wintry storms and ends with gentle spring weather.
Q 08On what date is Saint Patrick's Day?
March 17
It is the traditional date of Saint Patrick's death and is a public holiday in Ireland.
Q 09Saint Patrick is the patron saint of which country?
Ireland
Legend says he used a three-leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity, which is why people wear shamrocks on his day.
Q 10What colour do people traditionally wear on Saint Patrick's Day?
Green
Since 2010 more than 300 landmarks in fifty countries, from the Sydney Opera House up, have been lit green for the day.
Q 11Which American city dyes its river green every year for Saint Patrick's Day?
Chicago
The tradition started by accident in 1961 when plumbers used dye to trace pollution and noticed how green the water turned.
Q 12Which small three-leaved plant is a symbol of the Irish and Saint Patrick's Day?
The shamrock
The word comes from the Irish for 'young clover'.
Q 13According to Irish folklore, a leprechaun hides a pot of gold where?
At the end of the rainbow
Leprechauns are usually described as tiny solitary shoemakers who love practical jokes.
Q 21Which president first proclaimed a National Women's History Week, in 1980?
Jimmy Carter
It grew from a 1978 school-district celebration in Sonoma County, California, and became a full month in 1987.
Q 22International Women's Day is celebrated on which date?
March 8
The idea was proposed by Clara Zetkin at a 1910 socialist women's conference in Copenhagen; the UN adopted it in 1977.
Q 23Read Across America Day, on March 2, marks the birthday of which children's author?
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904 and wrote more than 60 books.
Q 14Where was Saint Patrick born, before pirates carried him off as a teenage slave?
Britain
He was captured at 16 and spent six years as a slave before escaping, later returning to Ireland as a missionary.
Q 15Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because 3, 1 and 4 are the first digits of which number?
Pi
It was started in 1988 at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, and people mark it by eating pie.
Q 16Which famous scientist was born on Pi Day, March 14, 1879?
Albert Einstein
He was born in Ulm, in what was then the German Empire.
Q 17The day in this month when day and night are about equal usually falls on which date?
The 20th
It can drift to the 19th or 21st; the next March 19 equinox comes in 2044.
Q 18Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebrated for over 3,000 years, is timed to which event?
The equinox
It usually falls between March 19 and 22 and is marked with fire and water rituals, gifts and poetry.
Q 19Holi, the Hindu festival that usually falls in March, is famous for people throwing what at each other?
Coloured powder
It celebrates spring, love and the victory of good over evil, and lasts a night and a day.
Q 20In the United States, clocks go forward for daylight saving time on which day of March?
Second Sunday
Arizona and Hawaii skip the change entirely; the clocks go back on the first Sunday in November.
Q 24'The Ides of March' is famous as the date in 44 BC when which Roman leader was assassinated?
Julius Caesar
The Ides fell on the 15th in March; senators led by Brutus and Cassius stabbed him at a Senate meeting.
Q 25March Madness is the nickname of the national championship tournament in which college sport?
Basketball
The men's tournament began in 1939, when Oregon won; tens of millions of Americans now fill out brackets every year.
Q 26The world's first national park was created on March 1, 1872. Which park?
Yellowstone
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law; the park is famous for its geysers, including Old Faithful.
Q 27Which planet did William Herschel discover on March 13, 1781, the first found with a telescope?
Uranus
He spotted it from his garden in Bath, England, and at first reported it as a comet.
Q 28Alexander Graham Bell received the first U.S. patent for which invention on March 7, 1876?
The telephone
Bell later refused to keep a telephone in his study, calling it an intrusion on his real scientific work.
Q 29The Barbie doll made its debut at the New York Toy Fair on March 9 of which year?
1959
March 9 is still celebrated as Barbie's official birthday; the first doll wore a black-and-white striped swimsuit.
Q 30The first Oreo cookie was sold on March 6, 1912, to a grocer in which state?
New Jersey
Oreo was actually a copy of an earlier cookie called Hydrox, but it became so popular that people now assume Hydrox copied Oreo.