Fall Holidays
Fall Activities
Fall Jokes
Fall Food
N2Y
Fall Facts
50
The holiday that lands on October 31st each year.
Halloween
50
This fall activity involves a squash, a scoop, and a carving knife.
a. baking
b. Pumpkin carving
Pumpkin carving
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50
Why do trees hate going to school?
a. Because they're easily stumped
b. They are not people
Because they're easily stumped
50
What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America?
a. oranges
b. bananas
c. apple
Apples
There are over 7,500 known varieties of apples in the world with over 2,500 varieties grown in the United States.
50
What was the N2Y about?
a. Colin reminding Alondra about Fall Banner
b. The Great Reno Balloon Race
c. No News-2-You this week
b. The Great Reno Balloon Race
50
What type of tree never changes color?
a. cherry blossom
b. apple tree
c. a pine tree
A pine tree
100
Which month contains the first day of fall?
September
100
These are made for fun but also to scare off birds from damaging or eating crops
a. hay
b. corn fields
c. scarecrow
Scarecrow
100
How do you fix a pumpkin?
a. You just eat it
b. With a pumpkin patch
With a pumpkin patch
100
What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?
a. Pork
b. Turkey
c. Chicken
Turkey
100
How many hot-air balloons are in total?
a. 50
b. less than 100
c. more than 100
more than 100
100
this animal forgets about the majority of nuts they bury, which helps regrow forests.
a. Squirrels
b. Birds
c. Sloths
Squirrels
A study done at the University of Richmond cites that squirrels fail to recover up to 74% of the nuts they bury. This misplacing of so many acorns (the seeds of oak trees), the study says, is likely responsible for oak forest regeneration. When squirrels misplace these buried acorns they allow for these seeds to eventually grow into full oak trees!
200
What is a holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans on different days?
a. Thanksgiving
b. Christmas
Thanksgiving!
In Canada it is on October 9th, while here it will be on November 23rd
200
This activity can involve pitching, roasting, grilling, fishing, and telling stories.
a. rock climbing
b. camping
c. sky diving
Camping
200
What kind of vest do you wear in the fall?
a. Waistcoat
b. Har'VEST'
Har'VEST
200
What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.
a. Cookies
b. Cake
c. Pie
Pie
200
Where will one of the hot air balloon festival will be at?
a. Las Vegas, Nevada
b. San Diego, California
c. Reno, Nevada
c. Reno, Nevada
200
Americans buy enough candy during Halloween week to fill six ____.
A. Titanics
B. Football Fields
C. Grocery Stores
A. Titanics
On Halloween, we spend an estimated $9 billion on it. In fact, according to Vox, "If you took all the candy that's sold during Halloween week and turned it into a giant ball … it'd be as large as six Titanics and weigh 300,000 tons."
300
What is the name of the day where people shop some of the best deals of the year?
Black Friday
300
On how many continents can you grow pumpkins?
a) 3
b) 6
c) 4
B)6
These squashes grow on every single continent except the southernmost one. The top producers of pumpkins include China, India, Ukraine, the United States, Egypt, and Mexico.
300
Why did the apple pie go to the dentist?
a. Because it needed a filling
b. pies don't go to the dentist
Because it needed a filling
300
Popular seasonal drink flavor served in the fall that came about in 2003 from Starbucks
a. Pink Strawberry Drink
b. Cinnamon Oat milk coffee
c. Pumpkin Spice
Pumpkin spice
The pumpkin spice flavour profile has been around for centuries. The earliest-known “pumpkin spice” reference dates back to a British recipe from 1675 with pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Other recipes also contain ginger and/or all spice
300
True or False
The Super Glow Show happens each night after the Sun sets
False
it happens in the morning
300
What month are fall leaves the most colorful?
a. September
b. October
c. November
October
400
This holiday honors people who fought for our country
Veteran's Day
400
What activity is the most popular fall activity?
a) visiting a haunted house
b) watching scary movies
c) carving pumpkins
C) Pumpkin Carving
400
What do you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
a. nothing
b. Pumpkin Pi
Pumpkin Pi
400
A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?
A. 45%
B. 60%
C. 80%
C. 80%
400
True or False
Visitors can rider in the hot-air balloons
True
400
The largest pumpkin pie ever weighed nearly ____ pounds.
A. 3,700
B. 2,500
C. 1,000
A. 3,700
According to Guinness World Records, the pie measured 20 feet in diameter, weighed 3,699 pounds, and required 440 sheets of dough. It was made by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio in September 2010.
500
Which month contains the last day of fall?
a. December
b. January
December
500
What are the two most common food items that people commonly go out and pick during September and October?
Pumpkins and apples
500
How do trees get onto the internet?
a. to chipy chat
b. They 'log' in
They 'log' in
500
Name one popular fruit they use in Thanksgiving dinner
Cranberries, Pumpkins, Water Chestnuts , Sweet Potatoes, Celeriac,
Apples, pears, persimmons, grapes
500
How many people play checkers at the same time in Reno?
a. 640
b. 540
c. 340
540
500
Which country invented bobbing for apples?
a) America
b) Australia
c) Europe
d) Germany
Europe
The modern version is now typically played by people bobbing into buckets of water to catch an apple with their mouth.