Cleveland
CWRU
The Farm
Halloween
Fall
100

Name of the superhero created in Cleveland 

Superman

100

The two main schools that federated to become CWRU

Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University

100

Which half of the University‘s namesake originally owned the farm

Western Reserve University (Women’s College)

100

Another name for Halloween

All Hallow’s Eve

100

The festival celebrated in Germany every year in fall (with lots of beer)

Oktoberfest

200

The president buried at Lake View Cemetery 

President Garfield

200

The year the University’s two namesakes federated

1967

200

The subject the farm was originally meant to help young women learn

Practical botany

200

The author of the 1818 classic book Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

200

Before fall or autumn, the British term for this season

Harvest

300

The holiday film that features a house in Cleveland

A Christmas Story

300

The name of the famous physics experiment that proved the nonexistence of luminiferous ether

Michelson & Morley 

300

The original name of the farm

The Valleevue Farm

300

The vegetable that was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween

Cabbage

300

The first peoples in history to use scarecrows

The Egyptians

400

The river that caught on fire in the summer of 1969

Cuyahoga River

400

Guilford House on Mather Quad’s original use

Western Reserve University’s First Women’s Dormitory 

400

For whom the Farm was originally meant to help educate 

The women‘s college of Western Reserve University 

400

The Halloween song in which Vincent Price provides the spooky monologue

Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”

400

In Greek mythology, the explanation for the seasonal change into fall (and winter)

Persephone’s return to the Underworld (for 6 months)

500

The electrically powered item that was first seen in the U.S. in 1914 at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland

Traffic Light

500

The original purpose of Adelbert Gymnasium

An armory (WWI ended before its completion, so it was never used as one)

500

Name of the man who left the farm to Western Reserve University in his will

Andrew Squire

500

The location of the world’s longest haunted house

Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, Ohio (3,564 feet long and 80 feet underground)

500

The first balloon in Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in 1927

Felix the Cat

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