March Trivia
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188 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
March has 31 days, one of seven such months alongside January, May, July, August, October and December.
Q 02March is named after the Roman god of what?
War
War: Mars gave his name to the month and the planet, and his month opened the season for military campaigns.
Q 03Which Roman king is traditionally credited with adding January and February to the calendar?
Numa Pompilius
Numa Pompilius, Rome's legendary second king, is credited by Livy and Plutarch with adding January and February to the ten-month calendar that had begun with March.
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 south of the equator, in Australia and Brazil, March opens autumn.
Q 05What is the birth flower of March?
Daffodil
The daffodil, a spring-blooming narcissus, is the March birth flower and a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings; the jonquil is sometimes listed alongside it.
Q 06Which pale blue gemstone is one of March's two birthstones?
Aquamarine
Aquamarine, a blue-green variety of the mineral beryl, takes its name from the Latin aqua marina, meaning 'sea water'.
Q 07In the old weather saying, March comes in like a lion and goes out like what?
Lamb
Lamb: the proverb, in print since at least the 1700s, says March opens with lion-like winter storms and closes with mild, lamb-like spring weather.
Q 08On what date is Saint Patrick's Day?
March 17
March 17 is the traditional date of Saint Patrick's death, conventionally placed in the year 461, and has been kept as his feast day for centuries.
Q 09Saint Patrick is the patron saint of which country?
Ireland
Ireland: Patrick, a fifth-century missionary bishop credited with spreading Christianity across the island, is its primary patron saint, alongside Brigid and Columba.
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 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, from the Irish seamróg meaning 'young clover', is worn on Saint Patrick's Day and appears on Aer Lingus aircraft and Irish rugby shirts.
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: folklore has the leprechaun, a solitary fairy shoemaker, guarding a pot of gold that can never be reached because rainbows have no end.
Q 21Which president first proclaimed a National Women's History Week?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter proclaimed the week of March 8, 1980 as National Women's History Week; it grew from a 1978 Sonoma County, California school celebration and became a full month in 1987.
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
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
Britain: Patrick's own Confessio says he was born in Roman Britain at Bannavem Taburniae, captured by Irish raiders at sixteen, and spent six years enslaved 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 scientist was born on Pi Day, March 14, 1879?
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the German Empire, on March 14, 1879; he published the special theory of relativity in 1905.
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
The equinox: Nowruz begins at the exact moment of the March equinox, so it usually falls between March 19 and 22, marked with haft-sin tables, house cleaning and family visits.
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 start of US daylight saving time to the second Sunday in March from 2007, with clocks going back on 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 23 times at a meeting of the Senate in the Theatre of Pompey by conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius.
Q 25March Madness is the nickname of the national championship tournament in which college sport?
Basketball
Basketball: the NCAA Division I men's tournament, first played in 1939, expanded to a 64-team bracket in 1985, and its single-elimination games fill three weeks of March and early April.
Q 26Which park, created on March 1, 1872, was the world's first national park?
Yellowstone
Yellowstone, signed into being by President Ulysses S. Grant, spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and is famous for geysers such as Old Faithful.
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: U.S. Patent 174,465, issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, was titled 'Improvement in Telegraphy'; three days later he spoke the famous 'Mr. Watson, come here' line.
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
New Jersey: Nabisco records the first Oreo sale to a grocer in Hoboken on March 6, 1912; the cookie imitated Hydrox, launched four years earlier in 1908.