NATURE
How long it takes a red oak tree to start making acorns
What is 20 years
Name a popular fall apple variety that is best known for keeping its shape and texture extremely well when it is baked.
What is a granny smith?
Name a cult classic Halloween movie including witches, a black cat, a zombie, a nasty candle, a spell book and a group of teens.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This is the number of points awarded for a touchdown in a regulation game of football.
What is 6?
There are 7 with the PAT goal kick or 8 if the team opted for a 2 point conversion.
This Traditional German folk festival lasts for 2 weeks and ends the first Sunday of October.
What is Oktoberfest?
From a botanical standpoint, a pumpkin is considered this kind of plant
What is a fruit
fun fact: it is technically a type of berry called a pepo
Name a traditional fall food that is popular at fall festivals/carnivals and has a sticky sweet coating on the outside and sweet inside.
What is a caramel apple?
Name the sport played in the movie set in 1971 Virginia titled "Remember the Titans".
What is football?
This is the number of players on a single team during a standard soccer (football) match.
What is 11?
This Mexican tradition is a time to remember and focus on celebrating deceased loved ones rather than mourning their deaths.
What is Dia De Los Muertos?
Name the phenomenon that occurs globally during the autumnal equinox (also known as the first day of fall).
What is days and nights are approximately equal length (worldwide)
Name the company that singlehandedly started the modern fall flavor craze.
Who is Starbucks? They introduced the pumpkin spice latte in 2003 and it started fall flavor trends everywhere.
Name the park from the major scene in fall classic "When Harry Met Sally".
What is Central Park?
This is the number of total game wins that are required in the final Major League Baseball series to claim the title for the World Series.
What is 4?
This Irish/Scottish/Gaelic festival called Samhain is a festival akin to our American Halloween where people often lite fires and wear costumes to ward off this
What is ghosts/bad spirits?
This is the physiological phenomenon that many animals experience in late summer/fall where they gorge on food to build fat reserves for winter hibernations/torpor/brumation
What is hyperphagia
What are nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, all spice, and clove
In the movie titled "Dead Poet's Society", Robin Williams plays a character of a teacher. This is the subject he teaches.
What is English?
During a professional game of baseball, traditionally the song titled "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is sang by the entire stadium during this inning
What is the 7th inning stretch?
This Eastern/southestern Asian festival is celebrated in the fall under the brightest moon and is symbolized by lanterns and pastries called moonkakes.
What is the Moon Festival?
Carotenoids and anthocyanins are two pigments that are created during the break down of chlorophyll. Name what the break down of that chlorophyll does.
Name the US president that officially proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving be a national holiday celebrated annually to help heal our broken nation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
Bonus fact: It used to be the last week of November until 1941 when Roosevelt changed it to the 4th Thursday to make it easier to tell when the holiday would be.
In Tim Bruton's "Sleepy Hollow", Johnny Depp portrays a character that is a detective/investigator and is sent to hunt down the Headless Horseman and save the town. This is his characters name.
What is Ichabod Crane?
In the 1980 Olympic Hocky game known as the Miracle on Ice, these were the teams that played
What is the US and the Soviet Union?
The name of the festival held in the fall in Hindu culture that is the celebration of the New Year
What is Diwali?