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50

What does it mean when someone places a teal pumpkin on their porch for Halloween?

The house is handing out non-food treats to make sure that kids with food allergies can still participate.

50

What year did Christopher Columbus get lost?

1492

50

Oktoberfest takes place every autumn in which German city?

Munich

50

Are pumpkins technically a fruit or a vegetable?

Fruit

50

Who wrote Frankenstein?

Mary Shelley

50

Some mammals store up on food and fat reserves to prepare for this during fall/winter.

Hibernation

100

Which month contains the last day of fall?


December

100

What insect migrates south to Mexico for the winter during the fall months?

Monarchs (or just butterflies)

100

Which Hindu festival takes place in the fall?

Diwali

100

What process refers to soaking poultry in a saltwater solution before cooking it?

Brining

100

Who wrote Dracula?

Bram Stroker

100

What ancient siege weapons are used for "Punkin Chunkin"

Trebuchet

150

When is Día de los Muertos celebrated?

November 1st & 2nd

150

If you want to visit Transylvania (not the one in PA), what country do you need to fly to?

Romania

150

What country started the tradition of pumpkin carving?

Ireland

150

In what country were pumpkin pies first made?

Mexico

150

What two American Football teams play on every Thanksgiving?

Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys(boooooooo!)

150

What is a female Turkey called?

Hen

200

Which US state first adopted Thanksgiving as an annual holiday?

New York

200

Where can you see the world's largest bat colony?

Bracken Cave in San Antonio

200

Which Jewish holiday, celebrating the Jewish near year, takes place in the fall?

Rosh Hashanah

200

What are the traditional ingredients in a hot toddy?

Whiskey, lemon juice, honey, and hot water

200

Bowling has a Thanksgiving/Fall themed term. What is the name and what does it signify?

Turkey, three strikes in a row.

200

What is this part of the turkey called?















Wattle

250

What does the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” signify?

On November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. in France, German forces formally agreed to a cease-fire, thereby ending World War I.

250

Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for what trade profession?

Plumbers

250

Who was the first group of people in history to use scarecrows?

The Egyptians

250

Which U.S. state has named apple cider their official state drink?

New Hampshire

250

What movie holds the record for the highest-grossing weekend in Thanksgiving history?  Other movies need to just let it go.

Frozen 2
250

What is the smell of the first rain of fall called?

Petrichor

300

What year was the first Thanksgiving?

1621

300

What other holiday is celebrated on Black Friday?

Native American Heritage Day

300

Why is Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November in America?

So the Christmas shopping season is longer. President Roosevelt did this to aid in the country's financial recovery from the Great Depression.

300

In colonial times, what were apples called?

Winter bananas or "melt-in-the-mouths"


300

Where does the popular rhyme ‘double, double toil, and trouble’ originate?

Macbeth

300

What pigment is responsible for trees with red and purple leaves?

Anthocyanins