ICE HOCKEY
This trophy is awarded to the NHL playoff champion.
What is the Stanley Cup?
Churchill won this prestigious award in 1953 for his historical writing.
What is the Nobel Piece in Literature?
What is the natural color of leaves?
Yellow and orange. The green is produced thanks to chlorophyll.
What fairytale has a pumpkin that is turned into a carriage?
Cinderella
Are pumpkins a fruit or vegetable?
FRUIT!
What is a hat trick?
Before coming prime minister, Churchill wrote this type of firsthand account about his experiences as a soldier and a war correspondent.
What are memoirs?
A male turkey is called this.
What is a gobbler?
Which famous Halloween movie features a family that includes Morticia, Gomez, and Wednesday?
The Addams Family
Where is the one place in the world where you can't find pumpkins?
Antarctica
This annual outdoor NHL game lets professionals hockey players compete in a stadium under the open sky.
What is the Winter Classic?
This famous Churchill speech includes the well-known phrase 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
What is the 'The Few' speech?
Who were the first group of people in history to use scarecrows?
The Egyptians
Which movie directed by Tim Burton stars Michael Keaton as a kooky chaotic spirit in striped clothing
Beetlejuice
What food source do some hibernating animals store in their burrows to eat during brief periods of wakefulness throughout the winter?
Nuts and seeds.
In hockey, this term describes a goal scored by a player when their team has fewer players on the ice than the opposing team because of a penalty.
What is a shorthanded goal?
What hobby did Churchill enjoy in his later years?
What is painting?
What country is believed to have started the tradition of carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns?
Ireland
A 1993 campy, nostalgic favourite about three 17th-century witches resurrected in Salem on Halloween night
Hocus Pocus
A male turkey is called this.
A gobbler
This NHL team won the Stanley Cup in 2018, earning the first championship in franchise history.
Who are the Washington Capitals?
What was Churchill's speech impediment? (Hint: He used to practice saying "The Spanish ships I cannot see for they are not in sight.")
Pronounced "s" as "sh"
When is the approximate date of the autumnal equinox (the start of fall)?
September 22 or 23
John Carpentar's original slasher film from 1978 that set the gold standard for pure October 31st dread
Halloween
What is the term for a period of unseasonably warm and sunny weather that can occur in Canada during the late fall, after the first frost?
Indian summer