Fall Holidays
Tea
One-eyed
-ology
Scripts
100

Halloween is a contraction of this full holiday name which used to be much more focused on spirituality than costumes and candy.

All Hallows' Eve

100

This tea drink typically consists of black tea brewed in milk and water, sweetened with sugar, and flavored with mixed spices.

Masala chai

100

The cyclops that Odysseus and his men blind in The Odyssey.

Polyphemus

100

Cryptozoology

'The study of hidden animals'

(Also accept mythological creatures, cryptids)

100

العربية الفصحى الحديثة

Arabic

200

This flower is emblematic of the Mexican holiday "Día de (los) Muertos," or "Day of the Dead."

(Answer can be given in either Spanish or English)

Cempasúchil or marigold

200

Tea became widely available and popular in Britain during the reign of this monarch.

Victoria

200

This two-dimensional demon whose appearance is based on the Eye of Providence destroyed his home dimension and seeks to do the same to our 3-dimensional world starting with the small Oregon town of Gravity Falls.

Bill Cipher

200

Ceramology

'The study of ceramics'

(Also accept pottery, pots)

200

Русский язык записывается с помощью этой системы письма.

Cyrillic

300

Bonfire Night is celebrated on November 5th every year in the United Kingdom commemorating the Gunpowder Plot wherein this man, after whose name the holiday is also referred to, and his conspirators placed explosives beneath the House of Lords in Parliament.

Guy Fawkes

300

In the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), gunpowder green tea is popularly flavored with this herb.

Mint

300

This god sacrificed one of his eyes for the chance to drink from the wellspring of Mímir which granted him immense wisdom.

Odin

300

Pomology

'The study of fruits'

300

English is written in this script.

Latin

400

This festival of lights typically takes place over 5 or 6 days sometime in mid-October to mid-November celebrated in slightly different ways primarily by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs.

Diwali

400

The phrase "cha if by land, tea if by sea" explains why the world's languages tend to use only one of two words for tea. Most Romance languages use some variation of 'te,' with the notable exception of two Romance languages which use a 'cha' variant. Name one.

Portuguese or Romanian

400

Who's that Pokémon?

It's Duskull!

400

Epistemology

'The study of knowledge'

400

한국어는 한글로 표기됩니다.

Hangul

500

During the Korean harvest festival Chuseok people commonly eat songpyeon, rice cakes steamed on a layer of foliage from this fragrant tree.

Pine

500

This country is the world's top tea consumer per capita.

Türkiye (Turkey)

500

This song describes a flying creature with one eye and one horn that, despite its name, is here to get a job in a rock n' roll band.

"The Purple People Eater"

500

Speleology

'The study of caves'
500

ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎪᏪᎶᏙᏗ

Cherokee

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