It's Fall Y'all!

Fall Holidays

100

This Mexican holiday is celebrated on November 1st and November 2nd each year in the USA and across Latin America.

Dia De Los Muertos (Day Of The Dead)

200

Which month contains the first day of fall

September

300

What is the name of the day where people shop some of the best deals of the year? 

Black Friday

400

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

Thanksgiving!

In Canada it is on October 9th, while here it will be on November 23rd

500

Which month contains the last day of fall?

December

600

This holiday honors people who fought for our country (USA).

Veterans Day

Fall Science

100

What is the name of the full moon that occurs closest to the start of autumn?  

 Harvest moon 

200

Name four colors seen with fall leaves.

Red, orange, yellow, and brown 

300

If a group of apples is called a bushel, and a celery is called a stalk, then what do you call a single corn?

Ear of Corn

400

Which part of the U.S. is best known for beautiful fall foliage? 

Phoenix, Arizona

Dallas, Texas

New England, Massachusetts

Honolulu, Hawaii 

New England, Massachusetts

500

How did “fall” get its name?

A) From an explorer named James Falls

B) A famous general named Henry Fall

C) A famous queen names Henrietta Fallon

D) From leaves falling from trees during the season

From leaves falling from trees during the season.

 

600

What happens to the amount of daylight in the fall?

It gets shorter.

Fall Random

100

Which country invented bobbing for apples?

a) America

b) Australia

c) England

d) Germany

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.

200

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

A) Monarch Butterfly

B) Raven

C) Flamingo

D) Bald Eagle

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

300

True or false: The first day of fall is always on the same day.

False 

The first day of fall is determined by the date of the autumnal equinox, which varies from year to year.

400

The one type of tree that never loses it's leaves or color (Hint is in the name)

A) Palm Tree

B) Evergreen Tree

C) Apple Tree 

An evergreen tree

500

How many countries call it fall instead of autumn?

a) 1

b) 3

c) 5

d) 7

1. Good ole 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. 

600

Besides pies, what were pumpkins also used for in the old days? (You must pick 2 answers)

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.

Fall Facts

100

What is Foliage?

A) Foil

B) The different colors of leaves to a tree or plant 

C) To fool someone

D) To know someone's age

B) The different colors of leaves to a tree or plant

200

______ forget about the majority of nuts they bury, which helps regrow forests.
A. Squirrels

B. Ants

C. Rabbits

D. Gophers

A. Squirrels

 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.

300

As it gets colder in the Fall, what is the degrees at which water freezes?

32 Degrees Fahrenheit

400

Americans buy enough candy during Halloween week to fill six ____.
A. Titanics

B. Football Fields

C. Grocery Stores

D. Buses

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."

500

What is that term called when birds fly South for the winter?

Migration

600

Babies born in the fall are more likely to live to be?

65 Years old

77 Years old

89 Years old

100 Years old

110 Years old

100 Years old

In a 2011 study published in the Journal of Aging Research, researchers analyzed the birth months of 1,574 American centenarians and compared them to the birth months of their shorter-lived siblings. The data showed that people born between September and November were more likely to become centenarians.

FALL RIDDLES

100

If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone’s favorite season?

Fall

200

Each Halloween I stand up inside Jack-o-lanterns. When I’m tall when I'm young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

Candles

300

I’m a cozy layer, knitted or sewn, worn when the fall winds have blown. What am I?

A Sweater

400

Why is it so easy to trick a leaf in October?

500

What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern?

A pumpkin patch

600

What do you call a bear with no teeth in autumn?

 A gummy bear