FALL FAVORITES
This warm drink flavor takes over every menu the moment fall hits
Pumpkin spice
This word describes a short, unannounced test
A pop quiz
This acronym describes the anxious feeling of missing out on something fun that everyone else is doing.
FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
This sport is played on a court, uses a hoop, and games are split into quarters.
Basketball
This season comes right after summer and right before winter.
Fall (Autumn)
This cozy, often oversized knitted clothing item is a fall wardrobe must-have.
A sweater
This is the small storage unit assigned to students to hold books and belongings at school.
A locker
This term describes content that spreads extremely fast across social platforms.
Viral
This sport, played with a round ball and called "football" almost everywhere outside the US, involves scoring goals.
Soccer
This is the number of days in the month of September.
30
This fall holiday involves costumes, candy, and trick-or-treating.
Halloween
This school event, usually held before the year starts, lets students tour the building and find their classes.
Orientation
This trending post type is a casual, unedited collection of random pictures from someone's week, usually just called a "____ dump."
Photo dump
In baseball, this is the term for hitting the ball far enough to round all the bases in one swing.
A home run
This annual school event, usually held early in the fall, lets families meet teachers and walk through the building.
Back-to-School Night (Open House)
This is the term for a farm you visit in the fall to pick pumpkins.
A pumpkin patch
This standardized test, scored out of 1600, is commonly taken for college admissions — its main rival is scored out of 36
The SAT
This term, borrowed from finance, is slang for someone's reputation going up or down after a public moment ("his ___ went up after that clip").
Stock
This international soccer tournament happens every 4 years and was hosted by Qatar in 2022.
The World Cup
This term describes a year with 366 days instead of 365, with an extra day added to February.
A leap year
This US state is one of the most famous fall foliage destinations, known for its maple trees and syrup — think "leaf peeping" road trips
Vermont (also acceptable: New Hampshire)
This class type lets high schoolers earn actual college credit, usually ending in a big test in May — what's the two-letter abbreviation?
AP (Advanced Placement)
This TikTok tab, personalized by an algorithm based on what you watch and like, is the default home screen most users scroll — name the 2-word tab.
The "For You" page (FYP)
In basketball, this shot is worth 3 points instead of 2 — but only if you're standing behind a specific arc.
A three-pointer (three-point shot)
This California city has a name that comes from a Spanish/Ohlone phrase meaning roughly "little cornfields."
Milpitas