Fall Activities
This is the act of going from house-to-house on Halloween asking people for prizes such as candy.
What is Trick-or-Treating?
Wrapped head to toe and ready to rise again, this undead figure comes straight from ancient Egyptian tombs.
What is a mummy?
This candy-coated chocolate's famous slogan promises it "melts in your mouth, not in your hand."
What are M&M's?
Known for its bright green skin and tart flavor, this apple variety is a popular choice for baking pies because it holds its shape well when cooked.
What is a Granny Smith?
Born September 26, 1981, this tennis superstar has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other woman in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams?
Flowing over 2,300 miles from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, this is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
This popular fall tradition involves carving faces into these orange gourds and placing candles inside them.
What are pumpkins?
Legend says a man named Stingy Jack inspired this carved, candlelit decoration — originally made from turnips in Ireland.
What is a Jack-O-Lantern?
A satisfying combination of nougat, caramel, and peanuts enrobed in milk chocolate, its slogan warns, "You're not you when you're hungry."
What are Snickers?
This tart, crimson condiment, a staple of the Thanksgiving table, is made from a fruit commercially grown in flooded fields known as bogs.
What is Cranberry Sauce?
It's fitting that this master of horror, who gave us "It" and "The Shining," was born on September 21, 1947, just as the days grow shorter.
Who is Stephen King?
In 1620, the Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic and landed at Plymouth Rock after traveling on this famous ship.
What is The Mayflower?
Many families, like us, visit these farms in autumn to pick this sweet, round fruit that often becomes pies and cider.
What are apples?
Celebrated 1 and 2 days after Halloween, this Mexican holiday honors the memories of loved ones who have passed away.
What is Día de los Muertos?
This Swiss chocolate bar is famous for its distinctive triangular prism shape, said to be inspired by the Matterhorn mountain.
What is Toblerone?
Starbucks launched this espresso beverage in 2003, and its annual return has since become a cultural symbol for the start of autumn.
What is a PSL?
Born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, he urged us to "Imagine" a world of peace after changing music forever with The Beatles.
Who is John Lennon?
There is no question here, but you MUST switch your point total with another team's.
Sorry/Congratulations! I do/n't make the rules...
Weekends during fall are times to go watch this high school sport often played on Friday nights.
What is football?
Created from stolen body parts and jolted to life with lightning, this monster first lurched onto the page in an 1818 novel.
What is Frankenstein's Monster?
Finish this Sour Patch Kids slogan: "First they're sour, then they're sweet..."
What is "Then they're gone"?
This tan-skinned, bell-shaped winter squash is prized for its sweet, nutty-tasting orange flesh and is commonly roasted or used to make soup.
What is butternut squash?
Now engaged to Taylor Swift, this NFL tight end was born on October 5th 1989.
Who is Travis Kelce?
Often called the "powerhouses" of the cell, these organelles generate most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate, used as a source of chemical energy.
What is the mitochondria?
For the past few years, the old fire station has been turned into one of these during October. Venture into it, if you dare.
What is a haunted house?
In Celtic folklore, people carved faces into turnips and potatoes before pumpkins to ward off this type of mischievous spirit.
What are fairies?
This whipped nougat-filled chocolate bar was so named because it originally came with three pieces in three different flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
What is a 3 Musketeers?
Often served on crisp autumn days and at football tailgates, this hearty stew, sometimes called a "bowl of red," is the subject of a fierce debate over the inclusion of beans.
What is chili?
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, this author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn took his famous pen name from a riverboat term for "two fathoms deep."
Who is Mark Twain?
Composed of the elements sodium and chlorine, this is the chemical symbol for table salt.
What is NaCl?
Head over to this farm in Plympton to have some fun with some fall activities including their a-maize-ing corn maze.
What is Sawchuck Farm?
This famous poem by Robert Burns, written in 1785, helped popularize many Halloween traditions.
What is "Halloween"?
Clarence Crane invented this hard candy in 1912, giving it a distinctive ring shape to stand out from other mints and naming it after a flotation device.
What are Life Savers?
This is the culinary term for the process of heating a beverage like cider or wine with a sachet of spices, such as cinnamon and cloves, to infuse it with autumnal flavor.
What is mulling?
This Cambridge, Massachusetts native, born October 8, 1970, won an Oscar for co-writing Good Will Hunting and later starred as a memory-wiped spy in the Bourne film series.
Who is Matt Damon?
This U.S. President holds the record for the shortest term in office, serving for only 31 days before dying of pneumonia in 1841.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
In Japan, folks head to the countryside for momijigari — a fancy name for doing this autumn pastime with fiery red maples.
What is leaf peeping?
Día de los Muertos is not “Mexican Halloween” — its origins trace back to Indigenous beliefs from this ancient Mesoamerican civilization.
Who are the Aztecs?
Originally marketed as an anti-smoking mint in Austria, this candy is now famous for the collectible character dispensers that dispense its small, brick-shaped treats.
What is PEZ?
Despite its name suggesting a mixture, this key "pumpkin spice" ingredient is a single dried berry from the Pimenta dioica tree, so named because its flavor profile resembles a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
What is allspice?
Born October 25, 1881, this Spanish artist co-founded the Cubist movement, forever changing modern art with works like Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Who is Picasso?
In Jaws, this is the name of the boat captained by Robert Shaw's character, Capt. Quint.
What is the Orca?
A major sporting event that takes place in the fall are the MLB playoffs. This New York Yankee performed so well in them he earned the nickname "Mr. October"
Who is Reggie Jackson?
The word “witch” is derived from the Old English wicce, meaning this.
What is "wise woman"?
The signature fizzing of this novelty candy is caused by trapping pressurized carbon dioxide gas inside the hard sugar crystals during manufacturing.
What are Pop Rocks?
Distinguished by its long, elegant neck and cinnamon-brown skin—a characteristic known as russeting—this pear variety is prized for a crisp, dense flesh that holds up exceptionally well when baked or poached.
What is a Bosc Pear?
This pioneering physicist and chemist, born November 7, 1867, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win the award in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
Though many people might guess Sydney or Melbourne, this planned city serves as the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?