Fall Holidays
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)
This fall activity involves a squash, a scoop, and a knife.
Pumpkin carving
What is the name of the full moon that occurs closest to the start of autumn?
Harvest moon
What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America alone. Free Hint: Don't overthink it, and it's used to make one of America's most popular pies.
Apples
What is Foliage?
A) Foil
B) The different colors of leaves to a tree or plant
C) To fool someone
D) To know someone's age
B) The different colors of leaves to a tree or plant
If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone’s favorite season?
Fall
Which month contains the first day of fall
September
These are made for fun but also to scare off birds from damaging or eating crops.
Scarecrow
Name four colors seen with fall leaves.
Red, orange, yellow, and brown
What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?
Turkey. 88% of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
______ forget about the majority of nuts they bury, which helps regrow forests.
A. Squirrels
B. Ants
C. Rabbits
D. Gophers
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.
Each Halloween I stand up inside Jack-o-lanterns. I’m tall when I'm young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Candles
What is the name of the day where people shop some of the best deals of the year?
Black Friday
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.
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
Popular seasonal drink flavor served in the fall that came about in 2003 from Starbucks. Today, Starbucks reports over 20 million are sold in latte form each year.
Pumpkin spice. The pumpkin spice flavor 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
As it gets colder in the Fall, what is the degrees at which water freezes?
32 Degrees Fahrenheit
0 Degrees Celcius
I’m a cozy layer, knitted or sewn, worn when the fall winds have blown. What am I?
A Sweater
What is a holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans on different days?
Thanksgiving!
According to seasonal retail and candy industry data, which chocolate treat is consistently ranked as the absolute best-selling candy for Halloween in the United States?
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Which part of the U.S. is best known for beautiful fall foliage?
Phoenix, Arizona
Dallas, Texas
New England, Massachusetts
Honolulu, Hawaii
New England, Massachusetts
What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.
BONUS: What is America's favorite type of this dish?
Pie
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."
Why is it so easy to trick a leaf in October?
They fall for anything.
Which month contains the last day of fall?
December
When was the world's first modern, shape-designed corn maze officially opened to the public?
1993 in Ann Arbor MI (at Davis Family Farm)
How did “fall” get its name?
From leaves falling from trees during the season.
A sticky treat made specially during Halloween and fall harvest (Hint: it is served on a stick)
Candy apple
Which US President officially proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, setting it on the final Thursday of November during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern?
A pumpkin patch
Halloween traces its roots back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. What event did Samhain mark for the Celts?
The end of the harvest and the start of the dark, cold winter
Before pumpkins became the traditional canvas for jack-o'-lanterns in North America, what root vegetable was commonly carved in Ireland and Scotland?
Turnips
What is the primary environmental cue that triggers autumn migration in many North American bird species?
A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?
A. 45%
B. 60%
C. 80%
C. 80% Pumpkins are 80-90% water
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.
What do you call a bear with no teeth in autumn?
A gummy bear