September
Labour Day Riddles
Port Cities
Four-Letter Words
100

September’s common name for the full moon characterizes what happens in agriculture in the fall.

What is harvest?

100

How does NASA organize a party?

They planet.

100

This romantic city in Italy, with its gondola-filled canals, is one of Europe’s most popular port cities.


What is Venice?

100

This is the contraction for will not.

What is won’t?

200

The first day of fall is also known as this.

What is the (fall or autumn/autumnal) equinox?

200

Jeff is six feet tall. He is an assistant at a butcher’s shop and wears size 12 shoes. What does he weigh?


Meat

200

One of the oldest marine ports in North America is in the capital city of this French speaking province in Canada.

What is Québec?

200

This F-word is a synonym for finance, as in to finance a venture.

What is fund?

300

This is September’s blue birthstone.

What is sapphire?

300

I have four legs but no hair. Without being pulled or prodded, turned on or plugged, I am always ready for work. What am I?

A desk

300

This U.S. East Coast port city is a hub for cruise ships with Caribbean itineraries.

What is Miami?

300

Before electronics went digital, we changed stations and volume on radios with this D word.


What is dial?

400

The Scales and the Virgin represent these two zodiac signs that fall in September.

What are Libra and Virgo?

400

I lost my job after giving up my seat on the bus to a blind person. Why?

I was the bus driver.

400

This port city is the third-largest city in Israel. It’s also the only city in Israel with a subway system.


What is Haifa?

400

This is a British word for apartment.

What is flat?

500

The word September means this, which is why it is inaptly named.

What is “the seventh month”?

500

What recognition does the world’s top dentist get?

A little plaque

500

Egypt’s second-largest city is also Egypt’s largest port city.

What is Alexandria?

500

This is a word for raw facts and figures that can be processed.

What is data?