Fall into Fall
While it’s autumn in the United States, Australia is experiencing this season.
What is spring
Despite its name, a traditional pumpkin spice blend contains none of this orange ingredient.
What is pumpkin?
This sport originally used peach baskets as its goals.
What is basketball?
Despite its name, Munich’s Oktoberfest takes place mostly during this month, taking advantage of warmer weather.
What is September?
Often mistaken for his creature’s name, this is actually the surname of the scientist in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel.
Who is Frankenstein?
Unlike most butterflies, this orange-and-black species migrates to central Mexico for the winter.
What is the monarch butterfly
This spice used in apple pie and fall drinks comes from the bark of a tree.
What is cinnamon?
Although nicknamed a “pigskin,” an NFL football’s leather actually comes from this animal.
What is a cow?
In Mexico, families use marigolds whose scent is believed to guide loved ones’ spirits home during this holiday.
What is Day of the Dead?
In Washington Irving’s story, this rider is said to be the ghost of a soldier whose head was blown off during the Revolutionary War.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
This name belongs to the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, whether it occurs in September or October.
What is the Harvest Moon?
These tart red berries contain air pockets, allowing farmers to collect them by floating them in flooded bogs.
What are cranberries?
Hockey pucks are stored this way before a game to reduce bouncing and help them glide smoothly across the ice.
What is kept frozen?
Japan’s autumn tradition of Tsukimi involves gathering to admire this object in the night sky.
What is the moon?
Unlike many movie vampires, Dracula in Bram Stoker’s original novel can survive this daytime danger, although it limits his powers.
What is sunlight?
In fall, squirrels sometimes bury these as decoys to fool animals that might steal their food.
What are empty holes?
Its name sounds like a mixture, but this pumpkin pie seasoning is actually a single type of dried berry.
What is allspice?
The first basketball game was played using a ball borrowed from this other sport.
What is soccer?
The first Oktoberfest in 1810 celebrated this type of royal occasion—not a beer harvest.
What is a wedding?
Meaning “noisy ghost” in German, this type of spirit is associated with unexplained knocking and furniture moving on its own.
What is a poltergeist?
Though its name suggests an evergreen, this needle-bearing tree turns golden in autumn and drops its needles for winter.
What is a larch (or tamarack)?
This pumpkin spice ingredient comes from the same fruit as mace: mace is the outer covering, while this spice comes from the seed.
What is nutmeg?
Before major league games, baseballs are rubbed with a special variety of this earthy substance to remove their slippery shine.
What is mud?
Before pumpkins became popular, people in Ireland carved Halloween lanterns from these root vegetables.
What are turnips?
In some European vampire folklore, scattering seeds could delay a vampire because it supposedly had to perform this task before moving on.
What is count every seed?