(A) Fall Holidays
(B) Fall Activities
(C) Fall Jokes
(D) Fall Food
(E) Fall Random
(F) 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. 

Pumpkin carving


50

Why do trees hate going to school?

Because they're easily stumped 

50

What is the most popular fall fruit, that comes in over 2,500 varieties in America?

Apples


50

You can eat every part of a pumpkin?

True or false

True

50

What type of tree never changes color?

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

Scarecrow

100

How do you fix a pumpkin?

With a pumpkin patch

100

What is the most common main dish served at Thanksgiving?

Turkey


100

This fluttering fella is the only insect that migrates up to 2,500 miles for nicer weather.

Monarch butterfly


The Monarch butterfly dislikes winter so much that it’ll fly South from America to the warmth of Mexico and parts of California at a speed between 12 and 25 miles per hour

100

This animal forgets about the majority of nuts they bury, which helps regrow forests.

Squirrels
Throughout the fall, squirrels spend their days collecting and "caching" nuts, meaning they hide the tasty treasures away in spots where they hope to find them later. One 1998 study by the University of Richmond found that squirrels fail to recover up to 74 percent of the nuts they bury, which is likely responsible for oak forest regeneration.

200

What is a holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans on different days?

Thanksgiving!

WINNERRRRRRR 

In Canada it is in October, while here it will be in November

200

This activity can involve pitching, roasting, grilling, fishing, and telling stories.

Camping

200

What kind of vest do you wear in the fall?

Har'VEST'

200

What is one of the most popular baked pastry dish that can be made with either fruit, meat or vegetables.

Pie

200

The one type of tree that never loses its leaves or color.

An evergreen tree

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?

Because it needed a filling

300

Popular seasonal drink flavor served in the fall that came about in 2003 from Starbucks

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: Autumn babies live longer.


True

Although the days might be getting shorter, those born in Autumn could live longer, according to a study carried out by the Journal of Aging Research. The study found that 30% of US centenarians born during 1880-1895 were born in the Autumn season.

300

What month are fall leaves the most colorful?

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?

Pumpkin Pi

400

A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?

A. 45%

B. 60%

C. 80%

C. 80% 

400

Besides pies, what were pumpkins also used for in the old days?

a) remove freckles

b) cure snake bites

c) soothe a tooth ache

d) help fingernails shine

A & B) To remove freckles and cure snake bites.

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?


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?

They 'log' in

500

A sticky treat made specially during Halloween and fall harvest that includes fruit on a stick.

Candy apple

500

How many countries call it fall instead of autumn?

a) 1 Country

b) 3 Countries

c) 5 Countries

d) 7 Countries

A)1 

The USA! The season was originally just called harvest and autumn came around much later in the 1300s, according to CNN. When English poets started using the phrase “the fall of leaves” it became very fashionable to call the season fall. But by the mid-1800s, after the split of the colonies from England led to language change,  England reverted back to Autumn and the American upstarts retained fall. 


500

Which country invented bobbing for apples?

a) America

b) Australia

c) England

d) Germany

England

Although the modern version is now typically played by people bobbing into buckets of water to catch an apple with their mouth, the original game was actually once a British courting ritual. Males were assigned an apple, whilst the female would bob for them, hoping to get the right apple from the man she wanted. If she did, it was a sign that they were destined to be together.