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FALL RIDDLES
100

Largest country in the world by land area.

What is Russia?

100

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)


100

What is the name of the full moon that occurs closest to the start of autumn?  

 Harvest moon 


100

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


100

Basketball: a free point is worth this many points.

What is one point?

100

If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone’s favorite season?

Fall

200

The Danube River empties into this sea.

What is the Black Sea?

200

Which month contains the first day of fall

September


200

These blood cells transport oxygen around the bodys.

What are RBC?

200

______ 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.

200

Tennis: Grand slam tournament played on clay.

What is French Open (Roland-Garros)?


200

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


300

This African country has more pyramids than Egypt.

What is Sudan?

300

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


Black Friday

300

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


300

As it gets colder in the Fall, what is the degrees at which water freezes?

32 Degrees Fahrenheit

0 Degrees Celcius


300

Volleyball: Defensive specialist that wears a different colored jersey. 

What is the libero?

300

I’m a cozy layer, knitted or sewn, worn when the fall winds have blown. What am I?

A Sweater

400

This country has the most time zones.

What is France?

 

400

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

400

This largest planet in our solar system is famous for its Great Red Spot, a massive, centuries-old storm.

What is Jupiter?

400

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."

400

Baseball: WHIP stands for.

What is Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched?

400

Why is it so easy to trick a leaf in October?

They fall for anything.

500

These two countries have the shortest land border.

What are Spain and Morocco? 

500

Which month contains the last day of fall?


December


500

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.

 

500

What is that term called when birds fly South for the winter?

Migration


500

Tennis: this player completed the Golden Slam in 1988 by winning 4 majors and Olympic gold in the same calendar year.

Who is Steffi Graf?

500

What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern?

A pumpkin patch

600

This is the oldest city in the world.

What is Jericho?

600

This holiday honors people who fought for our country (USA).


Veterans Day



600

What happens to the amount of daylight in the fall?

It gets shorter.


600

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.

600

Fencing: one of the three weapons that allow the entire body to be a target.

What is épée?

600

What do you call a bear with no teeth in autumn?

 A gummy bear

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