World's Fairs and Exhibitions
This 1,063-foot-tall attraction was built for the Exposition Universelle, the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris.
Eiffel Tower
This 1967 flick stars Anne Bancroft as the older love interest of Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate
This cruciferous vegetable has an ornamental version that adds color to the fall garden
kale
This is the meat ingredient in pigs in a blanket
hot dog
She was a first lady who later married a Greek shipping magnate and became a book editor for Viking Press and Doubleday.
Jackie Kennedy-Onassis
Held in November in America, this holiday is always celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada.
Thanksgiving
This famous bridge in San Francisco opened in time for the 1939 World’s Fair
Golden Gate Bridge
With the tagline “A love story of today,” this film stars Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn as a young couple in love
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
When planted in October, this delicious, white, cruciferous vegetable overwinters and is ready for harvest in early summer.
cauliflower
This animal’s “wings” are standard happy hour appetizer
chicken
This media maven spent five months in prison at “Camp Cupcake,” not for insider trading but for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and two counts of making false statements.
Martha Stewart
Red delicious, yellow delicious, and Roma varieties of this fruit are harvested in October.
apples
Seattle’s most famous structure, it was built for the 1962 World’s Fair
Space Needle
She stars as the socialite Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Audrey Hepburn
October is the perfect month to start this sweet Italian herb indoors to provide a year-round supply for making pesto.
basil
This Italian cheese is cut into sticks, coated with breading, and then deep fried
mozzarella
Her name is synonymous with Red Door perfume, her signature fragrance.
(EA)
Elizabeth Arden
Reduced sunlight is one reason the leaves on this type of tree change color before the tree loses its leaves.
deciduous
In 1964, this Ford classic car, which is still in production, was introduced at the New York City World’s Fair
Mustang
This 1961 drama involves two lovers from opposing gangs in New York City and plenty of musical numbers.
West Side Story
October is the best month to plant this stalky harbinger of spring. The hardy perennial will take two or three years to be ready for your kitchen table
asparagus
Sour cream and a package of onion soup or dip mix have been the two ingredients of this standby dip since at least the 1960s
French onion dip
This woman launched her modeling career as an infant in the 1960s and her acting career in 1981. She graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1987.
Brooke Shields
This divided country was reunited in October 1990
Germany
On the way to JFK Airport, you will see this well-known structure from the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Unisphere (or globe)
This romantic musical film of 1964 is based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion
My Fair Lady
This flowering shrub is used to produce a popular facial astringent.
witch hazel
Wrap this around pineapple or water chestnuts and secure with a toothpick for a quick, baked appetizer.
bacon
This supermodel’s big break was posing for the cover of Vogue’s August 1986 issue. She launched the Meaningful Beauty line of cosmetics in 2005, and she hasn’t seemed to age a day since then.
Cindy Crawford
These black swan events often happen in October.
stock market declines or crashes
The Sunsphere was built for the 1982 World’s Fair, which took place in this city
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Apartment stars Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray alongside this actress
Shirley MacLaine
These purple, daisy-like flowers can be found in the garden until the first frost.
asters
Tortilla chips are often served with queso and this type of pepper. Hint: It’s the state pepper of Texas.
jalapeño
She was the highest-paid actress in 2014, and her humanitarian work includes two decades as a United Nations special envoy in support of refugees.
(AJ)
Angelina Jolie
When it’s not a harvest moon, the name of October’s full moon is this.
hunter’s moon (or sanguine or blood moon)