Nature and Science
Which insect travels thousands of miles from North America all the way to Mexico for the winter in the month of September?
What is the Monarch Butterfly
What is the title of this 1940 standard by Glenn Miller and his orchestra tells the story of a couple sitting under a specific type of fruit tree. The chorus goes: "Don't sit under the _______ tree with anyone else but me!"
What is Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree?
Which of the following squashes is known for its deep green color, Pattypan Squash, Sweet Dumpling Squash or Kabocha Squash?
What is Kabocha Squash?
This animated Stone Age family made it's TV debut on September 30, 1960?
What is the Flintstones?
This rock singer was born in Zanzibar on September 5, 1946. He performed in a famous band called Queen. Can you name this legendary pop star?
Who is Freddie Mercury?
This is the astronomical event occurs around September 22nd or 23rd, marking the official start of fall.
What is the Autumnal Equinox?
Patti Page had a massive number-one hit with this beautiful, nostalgic song in 1950. The lyrics describe a peaceful night in a southern state, featuring lines about a "lonely boy" and "the beautiful _______ Waltz."
What is the Tennessee Waltz?
Before pumpkins were used, this vegtable was used to carve scary faces into....
What are turnips and potatoes?
Which sitcom about four older women sharing a Miami home premiered on September 14, 1985?
What is the Golden Girls?
Jazz legend John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926, in North Carolina. Which musical instrument was his claim to fame?
What is the Tenor saxophone?
Many species of birds rely on what invisible map to navigate south during their massive September migrations.
What is the Earth's magnetic field.
This 1965 classic reflects on life, aging, and the passage of time. Frank Sinatra famously compares the later stages of life to a specific season, singing: "But now the days are short, I'm in the _______ of my years."
What is It Was a Very Good Year?
True or False. Pumpkins and winter squashes are technically fruits.
True, they both contain seeds.
Which Grand Slam tennis tournament concludes in New York during September?
What is the U.S. Open?
Gene Autry was an American "cowboy" singer who was born on September 29, 1907. Which one of these holiday songs brought Autry fame and fortune?
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
This is the nickname is given to the full moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox
What is the Harvest Moon?
Written by John Philip Sousa in 1893, this patriotic march is played by school marching bands across the country every September at football games. It is officially the National March of the United States.
What is the The Stars and Stripes Forever?
If you traveled back in time 2,000 years ago, what color would most cultivated carrots have been?
What is purple or yellow?
Which European capital was devastated by a major fire that began on September 2, 1666?
What is London?
Actor John Ritter was born on September 17, 1948, in California. Which television sitcom, co-starring Joyce DeWitt, made Ritter famous?
What is Three's Company?
As leaves change color in late September, what is the name of the green pigment that breaks down, allowing hidden yellow and orange pigments (carotenoids) to show through?
What is Chlorophyll?
Released in 1941, this classic tune is famous for winter, but it was actually written during a blistering hot summer to help the writers think cool thoughts. It became a signature track for Nat King Cole.
What is the The Christmas Song?
Pumpkins originated on this continent
What is North America?
Which Beatles album, featuring the band crossing a street outside its recording studio on the cover, was released in September 1969?
Abbey Road.
The writer T.S. Eliot was born in Missouri on September 26, 1888. Which popular musical, from the 1980s was based, on a book of Eliot's poems?
What is Cats?