Fall Foods 🍗
This popular fall spice blend features cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
What is pumpkin spice?
The “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated in this century.
What is the 17th century?
The Peanuts gang famously watches this character wait all Halloween night for the Great Pumpkin.
Who is Linus?
This organization hosted its annual 5k in October 2025, and it ran through Emory's campus.
What is the Winship Cancer Institute?
This popular Thanksgiving Day event in New York City features giant balloons.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This fruit, a fall favorite, comes in varieties like Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, and Gala.
What is an apple?
The Pilgrims sailed to North America aboard this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
This 1993 Disney movie about three resurrected witches in Salem is a Halloween-season classic.
What is Hocus Pocus?
Of course, you were there for the event of the season: on October 30th, you sang your heart out in costume at this event taking place in the ground floor lobby.
What is scareoke?
In Greek myth, fall begins when this goddess returns to the underworld.
Who is Persephone?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This traditional Southern fall dessert features layers of thinly sliced sweet potatoes, sugar, and spices.
What is sweet potato pie?
This U.S. President made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Taylor Swift song begins with the lyric “I remember it all too well,” making it a fan-favorite fall anthem.
What is “All Too Well”?
Raoul residents, you know well that our very own hall council came in 1st place for homecoming floats with this theme, bald caps included.
What is Pitbull?
This U.S. president attempted to shift Thanksgiving earlier in the month during the 1930s, creating the temporary “Franksgiving.”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A hearty fall soup often made by hollowing out its gourd container.
What is butternut squash soup?
This Indigenous nation shared the 1621 feast with the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This 2001 rom-com starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks opens with the line “Don’t you love New York in the fall?”
What is You’ve Got Mail?
November 5 marked the beginning of this week celebrating students who are the first in their family to go to college.
What is First Gen Week?
This legendary rider, popularized by Washington Irving, haunts Sleepy Hollow in search of his missing head.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
These tiny Thanksgiving vegetables are often roasted with balsamic glaze to win over skeptics.
What are Brussels sprouts?
This woman campaigned tirelessly for decades to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
Ray Bradbury’s novel The Halloween Tree follows a group of boys on an autumn night as they chase the spirit of this friend.
Who is Pip (Pipkin)?
(DAILY DOUBLE) Emory's SPC, or Student Programming Council, used this theme for 2025's Homecoming Week.
What is Swoop's Days Off?
In China, this fall festival occurs on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month and features the legend of Chang’e, the Moon Goddess.
What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?