FALL FUN
Skeletons in Your Closet
ORANGE
SPOOKY!👻
SCARY!🦇
100
In Peanuts, Linus has spent many a Halloween waiting for this being.
What is The Great Pumpkin?
100
True or false: Babies have more bones than adults?
What is true?
Babies are born with about 275-300 bones that fuse together as they grow, Adults have 206 bones.
100
This yellow, gold, red or orange flower is a very hardy annual and emits a distinct scent that can deter pests.
What is a Marigold?
100
This U.S. city is known as the “Witchcraft Capital"
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
100
This is a 1973 terrifying movie starring young actress Linda Blair.
What is The Exorcist?
200
True or False:
Hay bales can spontaneously combust if they get too wet.
What is True?
(When there’s moisture in the hay, it becomes a breeding ground for bacteria. These little guys kick off a heat party, by breathing and reproducing. In hay, temperatures begin to rise between 130°F and 140°F, reaching up to 175°F in extreme cases. Elevated temperatures, coupled with the accumulation of heat and gas in the presence of oxygen, initiate a fire.)
200
True or False:
You can eat your way to stronger bones.
What is True?
(Bones lose strength over time. Foods rich in calcium and vitamin D go a long way toward maintaining bone strength. Exercise, especially weight-bearing exercise, helps keep bones strong, too.)
200
True or False: A sweet potato is a type of yam?
What is false?
Yams and sweet potatoes are entirely different, unrelated vegetables, though the terms are often mixed up in U.S. grocery stores.
Enslaved Africans in America used local sweet potatoes as a substitute for the true yams they knew from their homelands, calling them by words from West African languages like nyami (which became "yam"). Later, in the 1930s, U.S. potato growers marketed softer, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes as "yams" to separate them from older, firmer white varieties. Today, almost everything labeled as a "yam" in standard U.S. supermarkets is actually just an orange sweet potato. True yams are usually found only in international or specialty markets.
Taste & Texture: Sweet potatoes--sweet, moist, and soft when cooked. The flesh can be orange, white, or purple; Yams--starchy, dry, and much less sweet, more closely resembling a standard potato or yuca. Raw yams can be toxic and must be cooked.
200
Ophidiophobia is a fear people have of ______.
haunted houses
ghosts
snakes
What are snakes?
200
Double Jeopardy:
This is the starring actor and 1931 movie title.
Who is Bela Lugosi in Dracula?
300
Celebrated after Halloween, this Mexican holiday honors deceased loved ones.
What is Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead?
300
Our body's cells die and are replaced constantly. Over this amount of time we will have completely replaced our skeleton with new cells:
3 years
7 years
10 years
What is 10 years?
300
Charles Leggett, an amateur gardener and insurance worker, bought land in Stow, MA in the late 1930s and began crossbreeding a gooseneck with a pumpkin and a Hubbard and invented this sweeter version.
What is Butternut Squash?
300
Another name for a lycanthrope is:
a. a ghost
b. a werewolf
c. a bat
What is a werewolf?
300
This Stephen King book adapted into a movie in 1980 starring Jack Nicholson as a winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel.
What is The Shining?
400
Fall started officially on September 22nd for North America but starts in this month for South America.
What is March?
400
Humans are part of a group of creatures called vertebrates. That means our bones are covered by a system of tissue and skin; we have a backbone. This is the percentage of the world’s animals (humans included) that are vertebrates.
10%
50%
75%
What is 10%?
The other 90 percent are invertebrates.
400
Double Jeopardy: Name of both characters and the Disney movie.
Who is Mowgli & Shere Khan in The Jungle Book? (1967)
400
This 1925 horror film based on Gaston Leroux’s novel by the same name was made into successful Broadway musical.
What is “The Phantom of the Opera”?
400
Double Jeopardy: This actor played a great Psycho in 1960 & character name for extra points.
Who is Anthony Perkins playing Norman Bates?
500
This was the first group of people in history to use scarecrows?
a. Egyptians
b. Pilgrams
c. Italians
Who were the Egyptians?
(Farmers used the first recorded scarecrows in ancient Egypt to protect their crops from flocks of quail. Farmers often made scarecrows out of tunics and nets hung on reeds during this time.)
500
There is actually one bone not connected to any other in your body and it is located:
In your ear
In your neck
In you nose
What is your neck?
The hyoid is a tiny, horseshoe shaped bone in the neck that supports the tongue and the bottom of your mouth which helps us to talk, breathe and swallow.
500
These orange great apes live only in the tropical rainforests of these two Southeast Asian islands-- Borneo and Sumatra.
What is an Orangutan?
500
This famous macabre American short-story writer and poet was buried in Baltimore Oct. 3, 1849 after dying mysteriously.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
500
This 1991 movie ends with a famous quote, "I'm having an old friend for dinner."
What is The Silence of the Lambs?