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Every October since 1990, The Simpsons has aired a Halloween anthology special. What is the official recurring name of these spooky episodes?
Treehouse of Horror
Since 1920, which two NFL teams have played a game every single Thanksgiving Day?
Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys
What was used for the first Jack-o-lanterns before pumpkins became the staple vegetable?
Turnips, potatoes and beets.
Which US state produces the highest number of cranberries harvested for Thanksgiving dinners annually?
Wisconsin. While Massachusetts is famous for its historic cranberry bogs, Wisconsin actually produces over half of the entire world's cranberry supply.
Why do tree leaves actually change color from green to vibrant yellows, oranges, and reds during the autumn months?
The leaves stop producing green chlorophyll, revealing other hidden pigments. the yellow and orange pigments are actually inside the leaves all summer long but they are masked by the dominant green chlorophyll.
In the classic 1966 animated special It's the Great Pumpkin, which member of the Peanuts gang misses out on trick or treating because they choose to spend the entire night waiting in a pumpkin patch.
Linus
The legendary "Iron Bowl" is one of college football's fiercest autumn rivalry games played every November. Which two state universities compete in it?
Alabama and Auburn.
The iconic killer mask in the 1978 horror movie Halloween was actually a mask of which celebrity?
William Shatner
According to the National Turkey Federation, 88% of Americans eat which meat as the main dish on Thanksgiving Day?
Turkey! with the next highest being ham and then other choices.
What is the name of the traditional German autumn festival that famously begins September and features large kegs, traditional beer, and massive pretzels?
Oktoberfest
Before the iconic giant character ballons were introduced, what unique attraction was featured in the very first 1924 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
live animals borrowed from the zoo featuring bears, elephants, camels and moneys on loan from the Central Park Zoo, which actually frightened some of the younger children.
Held on the first Sunday of November, which iconic race is the largest of its kind in the world drawing over 50,000 runners and taking them through all 5 boroughs of a major city?
The New York City Marathon.
The Celts celebrated this festival over 2000 years ago to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time they believed the boundary between the living and the dead became blurred.
Samhain
What piece of a turkey's skeleton is traditionally pulled apart by two people as a game to see who gets their holiday wish granted?
The collarbone (wishbone)
Which celestial event occurs every September, marking the official astronomical start of autumn in the northern hemisphere
The Autumnal Equinox resulting in nearly equal amounts of daylight and darkness across the globe.
Tim Burton originally created A Nightmare Before Christmas as a three page poem, but in the film which Tim Burton character had a small cameo?
Beetlejuice