Fall Holidays
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FALL RIDDLES
100
What is the name of the day where people shop for some of the best deals of the year?
Black Friday
100
Name this show!
100
If a group of apples is called a bushel, and a celery is called a stalk, then what do you call a single corn?
Ear of Corn
100
What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America alone.
Apples
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100
This fluttering fella is the only insect that migrates up to 2,500 miles for nicer weather. (Name the specific type)
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
What is that term called when birds fly South for the winter?
Migration
100
If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone’s favorite season?
Fall
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
200
What holiday are they celebrating?
Hint: it's not Halloween.
Summerween!
200
How did “fall” get its name?
A) From an explorer named James Falls
B) A famous general named Henry Fall
C) A famous queen names Henrietta Fallon
D) From leaves falling from trees during the season
From leaves falling from trees during the season.
200
What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?
Turkey
88% of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
200
Which country invented bobbing for apples?
a) America
b) Australia
c) England
d) Germany
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.
200
What is foliage?
Tree or plant leaves collectively :)
300
This Mexican holiday is celebrated on November 1st and November 2nd each year in the USA and across Latin America.
Dia De Los Muertos (Day Of The Dead)
300
Who does Linus think is rising from the pumpkin patch?
"The Great Pumpkin"!
300
What happens to the amount of daylight in the fall?
It gets shorter.
300
What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.
Pie
300
True or false: The first day of fall is always on the same day.
False
The first day of fall is determined by the date of the autumnal equinox, which varies from year to year.
300
______s forget about the majority of nuts they bury, which helps regrow forests. (Answer is an animal)
Bonus if you can guess the percentage of nuts they forget about :)
A. Squirrels
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.
400
Which month contains the first day of fall
September
400
Name this show!
Bonus points if you can name the characters ^.^
Characters: Wirt, Gregory, and Beatrice
400
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
How many countries call it fall instead of autumn?
a) 1
b) 3
c) 5
d) 7
1. Good ole 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
Babies born in the fall are more likely to live to be?
65 Years old
77 Years old
89 Years old
100 Years old
110 Years old
100 Years old
In a 2011 study published in the Journal of Aging Research, researchers analyzed the birth months of 1,574 American centenarians and compared them to the birth months of their shorter-lived siblings. The data showed that people born between September and November were more likely to become centenarians.
500
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What is the cat's FULL name from Hocus Pocus? (First and last)
Thackery Binx
500
A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?
A. 45%
B. 60%
C. 80%
D. 30%
C. 80%
Pumpkins are 80-90% water
500
Americans buy enough candy during Halloween week to fill six ____.
A. Titanics
B. Football Fields
C. Grocery Stores
D. Buses
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."
500
What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern?
A pumpkin patch
600
What's her name?
600
What is the name of the full moon that occurs closest to the start of autumn?
Harvest moon
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600
On how many continents can you grow pumpkins?
a) 1
b) 3
c) 4
d) 6
6!
No matter where you are in the world, you'll be able to find a pumpkin (unless you plan to visit Antarctica). These squash grow on every single continent except the southernmost one. The top producers of pumpkins include China, India, Ukraine, the United States, Egypt, and Mexico. And, fun fact, the top pumpkin-producing U.S. state is Illinois.
600
Besides pies, what were pumpkins also used for in the old days? (Hint: 2 answers)
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.
600
As it gets colder in the Fall, what are the degrees at which water freezes?
32 Degrees Fahrenheit
600
I'm useful for a specific Fall activity. When I’m tall, I'm young. When I’m short, I’m old. What am I?
A candle
