Apples
While there are 85 different types of apples that grow in the United States, this variety is most often purchased in the US.
What is Red Delicious?
This pigment creates the yellow and orange hues in fall leaves.
What is carotenoid or beta carotin?
This 1931 film had the tagline "A monster science created but could not destroy!"
What is Frankenstein?
Wear pink in October to observe this awareness month that focuses on symptom awareness and early detection. It originally started as a week long event in 1985 but is now observed for the entire month of October.
What is Breast Cancer Awareness?
After 33 days at sea, Italian Explorer Christopher Columbus landed in the New World on this date (month, day, year).
What is October 12, 1492?
The old saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" comes from about 8.4 milligrams in a medium apple of this vitamin. It helps the immune system work properly and improves the absorption of iron from plant foods.
What is Vitamin C?
This New England state is renowned for its stunning fall colors, particularly in the White Mountains.
What is New Hampshire?
Jamie Lee Curtis was paid $8000 and provided her own wardrobe for this 1978 John Carpenter film. It was her first feature film.
What is Halloween?
This October holiday has it's roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and has influences from the Christian Holy Day of All Saints Day.
What is Halloween?
The ‘Space Age’ was heralded with the launch of this first artificial Earth Satellite by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957.
What is The Sputnik?
Apples were an important part this ancient civilization's agriculture, reflecting both the variety of crops cultivated and the innovations in farming techniques. They developed specific cultivation methods to enhance apple production and improve their quality through grafting.
This is the technical term for trees shedding their leaves in the fall.
What is abscission?
In this 1984 Wes Craven classic a girl warns her boyfriend, played by Johnny Depp, "Whatever you do don't fall asleep."
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?
This Jewish holiday is also known as the Day of Remembrance, for this day commemorates the creation of the world, and the Jewish nation recalls its responsibilities as God’s chosen people.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
During the Reign of Terror, a period during the French Revolution, this woman was guillotined after being condemned for treason on October 16, 1793.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This part of an apple contains a cyanide- and sugar-based compound called amygdalin. They have a strong outer layer that is resistant to digestive juices, making it unlikely to harm a human.
What are the seeds?
This is the term that refers to the study of leaves.
What is phyllogogy?
The dark past of Lakewood comes out in the 2015 MTV series based on this movie series that starred David Arquette.
What is Scream?
This Jewish holiday is a day of repentance, fasting, and prayer. It is the holiest day of the year after the Sabbath and falls annually on the 10th of Tishrei.
What is Yom Kippur?
With the demise of the 600-year-old Ottoman Empire after WWI, this country was officially declared a republic on October 29, 1923.
The Guinness world record for heaviest apple weighed approximately this many pounds and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan on October 24, 2005.
What is 4 pounds?
This type of tree is known for it's star shaped leaves that turn a vibrant red in the fall.
What is a Sweetgum?
This is the actual name of the possessed spirit inside of the doll named Chucky from the 1988 horror film Childs Play.
What is Charles Lee Ray?
This October Holiday has been federally recognized since 2021 and honors and celebrates the traditions, cultures, and histories of the first people of this land.
What is Indigenous People's Day?
After nearly a year, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, condemned 12 high-ranking Nazis to death concluding the Nuremberg Trials on this date (month, day, year)
What is October 1, 1946?