It's Fall Y'all!

Fall Holidays

50

The holiday that lands on October 31st each year.

Halloween

100

Which month contains the first day of fall?

September

200

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

Thanksgiving!

In Canada it is on October 9th, while here it will be on November 23rd

300

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

Black Friday

400

This holiday honors people who fought for our country

Veteran's Day

500

What are fall's three zodiac signs?

Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius 

Fall Activities

50

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

Pumpkin carving

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

On how many continents can you grow pumpkins?

a) 3

b) 6

c) 4

B)6

These squashes grow on every single continent except the southernmost one. The top producers of pumpkins include China, India, Ukraine, the United States, Egypt, and Mexico.

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

Pumpkins

50

Where is the one place in the world where you can't find pumpkins?

a. Antarctica

b. Egypt

c. Iceland

Antartica

100

If you throw a pumpkin in water, will it sink or float?

Float

200

What country started the tradition of pumpkin carving?

a. Scotland

b. Greenland

c. Ireland

Ireland

300

Pumpkins are brimming with what essential nutrient?

a. Vitamin A

b. Vitamin D

Vitamin A

400

How much did the largest pumpkin in the world weigh?

a. 1067 pounds

b. 2702 pounds

c. 5413 pounds

2702 pounds 

500

The Irish originally did not carve pumpkins. What did they carve instead?

a. Potatoes

b. Turnips

c. Squash

Turnips

Fall Food

50

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

Apples

100

What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?

Turkey

200

Is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

Fruit!

300

What is the popular seasonal drink flavor served in the fall that came to be 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%

C. 80% 

500

Which U.S. state has named apple cider their official state drink?

a. New Hampshire

b. Vermont

c. New York

New Hampshire

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.

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

What bug flies south to Mexico for the winter during the fall months?

a. Ladybugs

b. Butterflies

c. Bumblebees

Butterflies

300

True or False: Autumn babies live longer.

True: Although the days might be getting shorter, those born in Autumn could live longer, according to a study carried out by the Journal of Aging Research. The study found that 30% of US centenarians born during 1880-1895 were born in the Autumn season.

400

Besides pies, what were pumpkins also used for in the old days?

a) remove freckles

b) cure snake bites

c) soothe a tooth ache

d) help fingernails shine

A & B) To remove freckles and cure snake bites.

500

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. 

Fall Facts

50

What type of tree never changes color?

a. Pine tree

b. Oak tree

c. Cedar tree

A pine tree

100

This animal forgets about the majority of nuts they bury, which helps regrow forests.

Squirrels
Throughout the fall, squirrels spend their days collecting and "caching" nuts, meaning they hide the tasty treasures away in spots where they hope to find them later. One 1998 study by the University of Richmond found that squirrels fail to recover up to 74 percent of the nuts they bury, which is likely responsible for oak forest regeneration.

200

Americans buy enough candy during Halloween week to fill six ____.
A. Titanics

B. Football Fields

C. Grocery Stores

A. Titanics
On Halloween, we spend an estimated $9 billion on it. In fact, according to Vox, "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."

300

What is the natural color of leaves?

a. Yellow and brown

b. Green and Red

c. Yellow and Orange

Yellow and orange. The green is produced thanks to chlorophyll.

400

The largest pumpkin pie ever weighed nearly ____ pounds.
A. 3,700

B. 2,500

C. 1,000

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

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.