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50
The holiday that lands on October 31st each year.
Halloween
50
This fall activity involves a squash, a scoop, and a carving knife.
Pumpkin carving
Also, WINNINGGGGGG
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50
This fall sport also goes by "football" in most countries
Soccer
50
What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America?
*Double Jeopardy*
Apples
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50
You can eat every part of a pumpkin?
True or false
True
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
What is the name of the day where people shop some of the best deals of the year?
Black Friday
100
These are made for fun but also to scare off birds from damaging or eating crops
Scarecrow
100
This sport requires running long distances
Cross Country
100
What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?
Turkey
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
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
Which month contains the first day of fall?
September
200
This activity can involve pitching, roasting, grilling, fishing, and telling stories.
Camping
200
This sport starts its season in early August and goes until February.
Football
200
What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.
Pie
200
The one type of tree that never loses its leaves or color.
An evergreen tree
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
This holiday honors people who fought for our country
Veteran's Day
300
Pumpkins grow on every continent except this one
*Double Jeopardy*
Antarctica
300
This sport has its playoffs season in the fall
baseball
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
300
Name three Halloween traditions
trick or treating, carving pumpkins, roasting pumpkin seeds, passing out treats/candy, dressing up, putting up spooky decorations
300
What type of tree never changes color?
A pine tree
400
What is a holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans on different days?
Thanksgiving!
400
What activity is the most popular fall activity?
a) visiting a haunted house
b) watching scary movies
c) carving pumpkins
C) Pumpkin Carving
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
400
A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?
A. 45%
B. 60%
C. 80%
D. 90%
C. 80%
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.
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
Which month contains the last day of fall?
*Double Jeopardy if you know the day*
December 21
500
What are the two most common food items that people commonly go out and pick during September and October?
Pumpkins and apples
500
What year did the NFL play its first season?
1920
500
A sticky treat made specially during Halloween and fall harvest that includes fruit on a stick.
Candy apple
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)
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