An Autumn Movie Night!
Brain Teasers Time
Fall Mash-up
Fun Fall Facts!
Finish the lyrics: September Songs
200
Perhaps the most memorable moment of this Nora Ephron classic is when the titular characters (played by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan) meet in Central Park on an autumn day. Just the foliage in the background alone will convince you to grab a hot drink and stroll through the Big Apple this fall.
What is When Harry Met Sally?
200
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
What is He is playing Monopoly?
200
What is falling leaves?
200
Septem means ‘seven’ in what language?
What is Latin?
200
Finish the lyrics of this Earth, Wind, and Fire Tune:
Do you remember
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Love was changin' the minds of pretenders
While chasin' the clouds away
What is "The 21st night of September?"?
400
Fall is basically synonymous with spooky season. Get into the spirit with the OG slasher flick about a mental patient who escapes a sanitarium, where he's been living for the last 15 years for murdering his babysitting sister, and returns to his hometown to stalk a female babysitter and her friends.
What is Halloween?
400
Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?
Who were The catcher and the umpire?
400
What is scare crow?
400
September is dedicated to Vulcan, Roman god of what?
What is Fire?
400
Finish the lyrics of the Bangels song:
September girls
Do so much
And for so long
'Till we touched
I love you, boy
Never mind
I've been crying
All the time
December boys _______ bad
December boys_______ bad
What is "got it"?
600
The movie that put Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on the map. In this autumnal tale, a janitor at Harvard (Damon) is discovered to be a mathematical genius and sent to therapy with an unconventional psychology professor (Robin Williams, who won an Oscar for his performance) to help him deal with his past, and the demands on his future.
What is Good Will Hunting?
600
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
What is the river was frozen?
600
What is quarter back?
600
September heralds the beginning of Fall in the northern hemisphere, with it officially commencing on the September equinox, which is usually between the 21st and the 23rd of the month but in this part of the earth, it’s the opposite of course, with spring starting on the September equinox.
What is the southern hemisphere?
600
Finish the lyrics of this Greenday tune:
Summer has come and passed
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Wake me up when September ends
What is "The innocent can never last."
800
When a group of friends discover an old pirate map in an attic, they embark on an underground adventure in search of lost treasure while also facing a number of dangerous obstacles along the way.
What is the Goonies?
800
Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
What is Nine—two parents, six sons, and one daughter?
800
What is back to school?
800
September is known as Harvest Month. It’s a great month to harvest in preparation for the coming winter months. In fact, in Old England, it was called this... meaning Harvest Month.
What is “Haervest-monath”?
800
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Finish the lyrics of this tune by Johnny and Rosanne Cash:
I watch the clouds go sailing
I watch the clock and sun
Oh, I watch myself depending on
_____________________.
What is "September when it comes"?
1000
This Brat Pack classic, centered on a group of 20-something-year-olds (including Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy) as they date, work, and try to figure out how to be adults after graduating from Georgetown, all set in a New England autumn that will have you nostalgic for your J.Crew catalog days.
What is St. Elmo's Fire?
1000
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
Who is his son?
1000
What is winterize?
1000
September begins on the same day of the week of just one other month. Which month would that be?
What is December?
1000
Finish the lyrics to this September Song sung by Frank Sinatra:
Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December
But the days grow short
When you reach September
When the Autumn weather turns the leaves______
One hasn't got time for the waiting game
What is "to flame"?