Harvest Season
You will likely only eat the red and green stalks of this vegetable in a pie mixed with strawberries.
What is rhubarb? While you can prepare the stalks in a variety of dishes, it’s not a favorite vegetable. The leaves are poisonous whether raw or cooked.
This breakfast and brunch dish consists of toasted English muffins, Canadian bacon, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce.
What is eggs Benedict? One legend tells that the dish became popular in the 1890s after a hungover restaurant patron ordered this custom concoction for lunch at the Waldorf Hotel in New York.
He is known as Ol’ Blue Eyes and Chairman of the Board.
Who is Frank Sinatra? He was one of the first teen idols.
The days can be hot during the fall, but you’ll feel the chill during these two times of day.
What are morning and night? Fall and spring are transitional seasons that feature incremental but major changes in temperature during their three-month spans
This fungus tops both pizza and pasta.
What are mushrooms? Favorite Italian mushrooms include portobellos, porcini, and chanterelles.
What did one leaf say to the other leaf?
I'm falling for you!
This legume is treated as a nut and often mistaken for one.
What is peanut? It is processed into a popular nut butter, and a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter requires around 500 peanuts.
This is the nickname for an underhand shot from the basketball free throw line.
What is the granny shot? Former Houston Rockets player Chinanu Onuaku revived the technique in the NBA in 2016, bringing the granny-style free throw back to professional basketball after a 35-year absence.
Campfire stories go better with this treat that combines graham crackers, chocolate bars, and marshmallows.
What are s’mores? They’re equally delicious when you roast the marshmallows over a charcoal grill, firepit, or gas stovetop.
This full moon happens during the fall, either in September or October.
What is the harvest moon? It’s the brightest of all the full moons, giving off an orange glow like a big pumpkin in the sky.
This green sauce can top both pizza and pasta.
What is pesto? Pesto is a versatile sauce and can also be used on vegetables, eggs, beans, and meats.
What is a scarecrow's favorite fruit?
Straw-berries!
This flower is a symbol of harvest season
What is chrysanthemum? They’re harvest season’s most prolific flower, blooming everywhere in bold, beautiful colors—red, yellow, gold, green, purple, pink, maroon, and white. Globally, they are the second-largest harvest in the ornamental category, after roses.
This U.S. state shares the longest border with a foreign country.
What is Alaska? Its border with Canada stretches 1,538 miles (2,475 km). You might have thought Texas has the longest border with another country, but its border with Mexico stretches only 1,241 miles (1,997 km).
An easy way to get chewing gum out of hair is to use this half of a popular kids’ sandwich filling.
What is peanut butter? The oil in peanut butter can dissolve chewing gum. Both are hydrophobic, meaning they don’t mix with water. It’s the concept of “oil and water don’t mix” in action. Using water to remove chewing gum makes it cling to the hair even harder.
This fruit grown in Washington state is in season and a sign of fall.
What are apples? Experts recommend isolating apples so their ethylene won’t ripen other fruit prematurely. Did you know the world produces more than 7,500 varieties of apples?
Flour is the primary ingredient in most pasta, but this pasta uses potato and flour to form its shape.
What is gnocchi? Of the different varieties of pasta, gnocchi has the fewest calories
Why was the jack-o-lantern scared to cross the road?
It had no guts!
Cranberries are harvested by doing this.
What is flooding the fields? When the fields are flooded, the cranberries float to the top, making harvesting easier.
The three wise men are mentioned in this book of the Bible.
Matthew. Matthew 2:1–12 references three wise men, or magi, who brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Jesus after his birth.
This holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada.
What is Thanksgiving? Many Canadians enjoy the same Thanksgiving foods as Americans, including turkey dinner
Trees, shrubs, and vines that lose their leaves fall into this category
What is deciduous? Those that keep their leaves and pine needles are known as evergreen.
This U.S. city is famous for its deep-dish pizza.
What is Chicago? Comedian Jon Stewart calls the infamous thick Chicago pizza a “casserole.” It’s made with pizza toppings on a yeasty, bread-like crust made in cast-iron pans.
Why did the tree giggle?
It heard acorn-y joke!
This purple vegetable doesn’t come from a chicken.
What is eggplant? In Europe, eggplants are called aubergines. They originally came from India, and they are now a favorite fruit around the world.
This professional applies horseshoes to horses.
What is a farrier? Most people know that horses wear horseshoes to protect their hooves, but they don’t necessarily know horseshoes increase traction and/or provide shock absorption.
The winning team of this event takes home the Vince Lombardi trophy.
What is the Super Bowl? The trophy is named for legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, one of the greatest coaches of all time.
This natural phenomenon in the sky, most visible in Arctic areas, burns brighter in the fall.
What are the northern lights? They’re brighter due to the seasonal tilt of Earth around the time of the autumnal equinox.
What is the United States? Flatbread topped with sauces and other ingredients dates to ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian civilizations.
Italians originally used this method of cooking pasta
Why do birds fly south in the fall?
Because it's too far to walk!