Halloween specials
Farming
Fall colors
Random
100
This friendly cartoon ghost was a favourite Halloween character for kids.
Hint: His name means “friendly.”
Casper?
100
: This piece of farm equipment is used to cut and collect hay in round or square shapes.
Hint: It makes big bales.
What is a baler? 
100
This red fall fruit is harvested in bogs, especially in British Columbia and Quebec.
Hint: It’s a Thanksgiving sauce.
What are cranberries?
100
This device, once common in every home, uses paper to communicate messages quickly before email.
Hint: Fax and email came later.
What is a telegraph (or letter)?
200
This traditional Halloween treat was once made by bobbing for fruit in water.
Hint: A crunchy fall fruit.
What are apples (bobbing for apples)?
200
These animals are sheared each spring to provide wool for clothing.
Hint: You count them to fall asleep.
What are sheep?
200
This fall color is often seen on pumpkins, squash, and autumn leaves.
Hint: It’s also the color of Halloween jack-o’-lanterns.
What is orange?
200
The inventor of the telephone.
Hint: He has strong Canadian ties.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
This orange-and-black candy is shaped like little kernels but doesn’t taste like corn.
Hint: It’s a love-it-or-hate-it treat.
What is candy corn? 
300
This sustainable style of farming avoids synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.
Hint: It’s all-natural.
What is organic farming?
300
These prickly green husks split open in fall to reveal shiny brown nuts.
Hint: Children collect them for crafts.
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300
This bird is famous for its colorful tail feathers and courtship dance.
Hint: Often called the “royal bird of India.”
What is a peacock? 
400
Witches are often shown riding on these through the night sky.
Hint: You might sweep your floor with it.
What is a broomstick?
400
Q: This Canadian province produces the most grain and is called “the breadbasket of Canada.”
Hint: " its capital is Regina".
What is Saskatchewan?
400
This green pigment in leaves is what makes them appear green in summer, but it breaks down in fall, revealing reds, oranges, and yellows.
Think “chloro” meaning green
What is chlorophyll?
400
his small fruit grows on bushes, is blue in color, and is often used in pies and jams.
Hint: A berry native to North America.
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500
Before pumpkins, people in Ireland carved jack-o’-lanterns out of this vegetable.
Hint: A root crop.
What is a turnip? 
500
Before tractors, farmers relied on these strong animals to plow their fields.
Hint: They wear harnesses and sometimes pull wagons too.
What are horses (or oxen)?
500
he scientific name for trees that shed their leaves in fall is this.
Hint: Opposite of “evergreen.
What are deciduous trees? 
500
This element, represented by the symbol “Hg,” is liquid at room temperature.
Hint: Think old thermometers.
What is mercury