Autumn Season
Historically, what the fall/autumn season was called
What is harvest?
Because of the harvest moon that occurs close to the autumn equinox.
Thanksgiving is always celebrated on the _____ Thursday in November.
What is the 4th?
In Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted for three full days.
Pumpkin spice is made up of a combination of the following spices: ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, _______.
What is cinnamon?
Pumpkin spice contains no actual pumpkin flavoring.
Americans typically refer to this time of year as “fall,” while the ______ use the word “autumn.”
Who are the British?
Autumn is considered the more formal name for the season. Both 'autumn' and 'fall' originated in Britain.
Name one species of trees that don't lose their leaves.
What is the Evergreen tree?
The trees boast needles that are actually tightly rolled leaves, and this shape helps the needles conserve water throughout the fall and winter. A waxy coating on the needles also helps keep water from evaporating.
The autumn months in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is September, October, and November?
The autumn months in the Southern Hemisphere are March, April, and May.
The historic festival celebrated in Munich, Germany each autumn?
What is Oktoberfest?
The festival began as part of a crown prince's wedding celebration in 1810 and has continued since. About 1.3 million gallons of beer are poured during the festival.
The most common fall season harvests.
What are pumpkins and apples?
The United States has 5,000 plus apple producers who grow, on average, 240 million bushels of apples each year. In 2019, farmers in the top five pumpkin-producing States harvested more than 800 million pounds of pumpkins.
These 2 vegetables were used to make jack o'lanterns before pumpkins.
What are potatoes and turnips?
The Irish started this tradition before finding that pumpkins are much easier to carve. In England, large beets were sometimes used.
How fall dominates the life cycle of birds.
Many birds spend this season traveling to mating grounds or finding food.
The causes of Fall colors in leaves.
What is by the amount of sugar in leaves.
The redder the leaf, the more sugar that leaf is storing. That is why Maple trees are so vibrant.
Why ancient people wore Halloween costumes in the fall.
What is to hide from ghosts?
Costumes were worn to disguise and protect from those spirits wishing to do harm. A custom of dressing up and going from house to house performing short scenes in exchange for food or drink was part of the festivities.
The amount of varieties of apples.
What is over 8000 varieties?
About 2,500 of which are grown in the United States.
The most commercially successful horror movie of all time.
What is It?
A 2017 American coming-of-age supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. It grossed $328.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $373 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $701.8 million, against a production budget of $35 million.
Each autumn, this insect migrates from the U.S. to Mexico and some parts of Southern California.
What is a Monarch butterfly?
They migrate about 2,500 miles away to a warmer climate.
The amount of hours of daylight and darkness on the first day of autumn.
What is 12 hours?
The term equinox comes from the Latin words aequus, meaning equal and nox, meaning night.
The Chinese celebrate this ancient festival that coincide with autumn.
What is the Moon Festival?
They celebrate this to give thanks for a successful summer harvest.
Pumpkins are grown in all continents except.
What is Antarctica?
About ½ of the produced pumpkins in the US are grown in 6 states. Farmers in the top 6 pumpkin-producing states produced 753.8 million pounds of pumpkins in 2015. The “Pumpkin Capital” of the world is Morton, Illinois.
This is a popular game that kids and adults play at Halloween, it actually started as a British courting ritual.
What is bobbing for apples?
Every male was assigned an apple and then the young eligible ladies would bob for them, hoping to grab the apple of their beloved.
What is catching leaves?
Every leaf means a lucky month next year.
People who live near this never experience the season of autumn.
What is the equator?
Around the equator, the temperature remains consistently warm.
This day occurs on November 11 every year in the U.S. in honor of the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 that signaled the end of World War I.
What is Veterans Day?
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
This vegetable is about 90% water.
What is a cabbage?
It’s high in vitamins C and K as well as folate and potassium.
This team's tailgaters hold the record for braving the coldest weather to support their team.
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
In 1967, fans braved a wind chill of 48 degrees below zero to see the Packers defeat the Cowboys in what would become known as the “Ice Bowl.”
The use of pumpkins in the old days.
What is to remove freckles and cure snake bites?
In early colonial times, pumpkins were also used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.