The three villainous sisters from Hocus Pocus
Sanderson Sisters
This fall activity involves a squash, a scoop, and a carving knife.
What is 'Pumpkin Carving'
What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America?
Apples
True or False?
You can eat every part of a pumpkin.
True!
What country invented bobbing for apples?
England
Although the modern version is now typically played by people bobbing into buckets of water to catch an apple with their mouth, the original game was actually once a British courting ritual. Males were assigned an apple, whilst the female would bob for them, hoping to get the right apple from the man she wanted. If she did, it was a sign that they were destined to be together.
Who is said to be the most popular cartoon ghost of all time?
Casper the Friendly Ghost
These are made for fun but also to scare off birds from damaging or eating crops
Scarecrow
What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?
Turkey
*Double Jeopardy*
This fluttering fella is the only insect that migrates up to 2,500 miles for nicer weather.
Monarch butterfly
The Monarch butterfly dislikes winter so much that it’ll fly South from America to the warmth of Mexico and parts of California at a speed between 12 and 25 miles per hour
Americans buy enough candy during Halloween week to fill six ____.
A. Titanics
B. Football Fields
C. Grocery Stores
D. Hospitals
A. Titanics
"If you took all the candy that's sold during Halloween week and turned it into a giant ball … it'd be as large as six Titanics and weigh 300,000 tons."
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, who is Jack Skellington’s long-time rival?
Oogie Boogie
What activity is the most popular fall activity?
a) visiting a haunted house
b) watching scary movies
c) carving pumpkins
C) Pumpkin Carving
What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.
Pie
The one type of tree that never loses its leaves or color.
An evergreen tree
True or false: fall is the most common time to have your birthday
*Double Jeopardy*
True. September, specifically, is the most common month to be born in.
Which movie tops Rotten Tomatoes' list of the "Scariest Horror Movies Ever"?
The Exorcist
Pumpkins grow on every continent except this one
Antarctica
Popular seasonal drink flavor served in the fall that came about in 2003.
Pumpkin spice
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
What German city does Oktoberfest occur in each year?
Munich
This president made Thanksgiving a national holiday
Abraham Lincoln
What haunted hotel is the setting for Stephen King’s “The Shining”?
Solve the anagram!
Norc Zema
Corn Maze
A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?
A. 45%
B. 60%
C. 80%
D. 90%
C. 80%
Romania
The largest pumpkin pie ever weighed nearly ____ pounds.
A. 3,700
B. 2,500
C. 1,000
D. 3,000
A. 3,700
According to Guinness World Records, the pie measured 20 feet in diameter, weighed 3,699 pounds, and required 440 sheets of dough. It was made by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio in September 2010.
Double Jeopardy!
Name three horror movie villains
Ghostface, Jason Voorhees, Headless Horseman, Chucky, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Hannibal, Pennywise....
The largest Halloween parade occurs here
Greenwich Village, New York
Solve the anagram!
Lovereft Shindawc
Leftover Sandwich
The autumn equinox signals what?
The first day of fall
What compounds are responsible for leaves changing their color?
A. chlorophyll
B. carotinoids
C. anthocyanin
D. all of the above
D. All of the above - a decrease in chlorophyll (the green compound) makes the carotinoids and anthocyanin (red & yellow) more visible