It's Fall Y'all!

Fall Holidays

50

The holiday that lands on October 31st each year.

Halloween

100

What is the name of the day where people shop some of the best deals of the year? 

Black Friday

200

Which month contains the first day of fall?

September

300

This holiday honors people who fought for our country

Veteran's Day

400

What is a holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans on different days?

Thanksgiving!

500

Which month contains the last day of fall?

*Double Jeopardy if you know the day*

December 21

Fall Activities

50

This fall activity involves a squash, a scoop, and a carving knife. 

Pumpkin carving

Also, WINNINGGGGGG 

100

These are made for fun but also to scare off birds from damaging or eating crops

Scarecrow

200

This activity can involve pitching, roasting, grilling, fishing, and telling stories.

Camping

300

Pumpkins grow on every continent except this one

*Double Jeopardy*

Antarctica

400

What activity is the most popular fall activity?

a) visiting a haunted house

b) watching scary movies

c) carving pumpkins

C) Pumpkin Carving

500

What are the two most common food items that people commonly go out and pick during September and October? 

Pumpkins and apples

Fall Sports

50

This fall sport also goes by "football" in most countries

Soccer

100

This sport requires running long distances

Cross Country

200

This sport starts its season in early August and goes until February.

Football

300

This sport has its playoffs season in the fall

baseball

400

Which baseball team holds the record for most World Series wins?

*Double Jeopardy if you know how many they have won*

NY Yankees-27

500

What year did the NFL play its first season?

1920

Fall Food

50

What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America?

*Double Jeopardy*

Apples

100

What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?

Turkey

200

What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.

Pie

300

Popular seasonal drink flavor served in the fall that came about in 2003 from Starbucks

Pumpkin spice

The pumpkin spice flavour profile has been around for centuries. The earliest-known “pumpkin spice” reference dates back to a British recipe from 1675 with pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Other recipes also contain ginger and/or all spice

400

A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?

A. 45%

B. 60%

C. 80%

D. 90%

C. 80% 

500

A sticky treat made specially during Halloween and fall harvest that includes fruit on a stick.

Candy apple

Fall Random

50

You can eat every part of a pumpkin?

True or false

True

100

This fluttering fella is the only insect that migrates up to 2,500 miles for nicer weather.

*Double Jeopardy*

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

200

The one type of tree that never loses its leaves or color.

An evergreen tree

300

Name three Halloween traditions

 trick or treating, carving pumpkins, roasting pumpkin seeds, passing out treats/candy, dressing up, putting up spooky decorations

400

How many countries call it fall instead of autumn?

a) 1

b) 3

c) 5

d) 7

A)1 

The USA! The season was originally just called harvest and autumn came around much later in the 1300s, according to CNN. When English poets started using the phrase “the fall of leaves” it became very fashionable to call the season fall. But by the mid-1800s, after the split of the colonies from England led to language change,  England reverted back to Autumn and the American upstarts retained fall. 

500

Fall begins on the 23rd with the autumn equinox. What is an equinox?

The sun appears directly at the earth's equator / the sun crosses the equator / day and night are the same length on this day (12 hrs each)

Fall Facts

50

Which country invented bobbing for apples?

a) America

b) Australia

c) England

d) Germany

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.

100

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."

200

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.

300

What type of tree never changes color?

A pine tree

400

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.

500

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