Fall
This U.S. state is nicknamed the “Green Mountain State” and is famous for autumn foliage.
What is Vermont?
In Bewitched, this flamboyant witch is Samantha Stephens’ mother.
Who is Endora?
This fictional Connecticut town is home to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.
What is Stars Hollow?
This Van Morrison song includes the lyric “And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush.”
What is “Moondance”?
This 1998 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is famous for New York in the fall.
You’ve Got Mail
The word equinox comes from Latin roots meaning these two things.
What are equal and night?
In The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West is played by this actress.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
On The Vampire Diaries, this Virginia town is home to Elena Gilbert and the Salvatore brothers.
What is Mystic Falls?
This 1966 Simon & Garfunkel song opens with a reference to leaves turning brown.
What is “A Hazy Shade of Winter”?
This 1989 romantic comedy features one of cinema’s most famous autumn walks through Central Park.
When Harry Met Sally
This pigment produces many of the red and purple colors seen in autumn leaves.
What is anthocyanin?
This 1996 film stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True as witches.
What is The Craft?
This supernatural series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar premiered on The WB in 1997.
What is Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
This jazz standard, originally a French song called Les Feuilles mortes, became famous in English as a song about falling leaves.
What is “Autumn Leaves”?
This 1989 drama set at a New England prep school stars Robin Williams as English teacher John Keating.
Dead Poets Society
In the Northern Hemisphere, meteorological fall begins on this date.
What is September 1?
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches tell Macbeth that no man born of this can harm him.
What is a woman?
In Twin Peaks, this beverage and dessert combination is famously beloved by Agent Dale Cooper.
What are coffee and cherry pie?
This 1972 Neil Young album shares its title with a fall agricultural season.
What is Harvest?
This 1987 comedy follows two men desperately trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
This 19th-century American poet wrote “To Autumn,” one of the best-known poems about the season.
Who is John Keats?
This 1486 treatise, whose title translates roughly to “Hammer of Witches,” became one of Europe’s most notorious witch-hunting texts.
What is Malleus Maleficarum?
This 1990s supernatural drama starred Gary Cole as Sheriff Lucas Buck in the fictional town of Trinity, South Carolina.
What is American Gothic?
This 1977 song by Justin Hayward includes the line “Cold-hearted orb that rules the night” and is strongly associated with autumnal melancholy.
What is “Forever Autumn”?
This 1999 film set in rural Maine, based on a John Irving novel, features an orphanage and an apple orchard.
The Cider House Rules