When a person is suspected of committing a crime, a detective will try to determine
the suspect’s verifiable whereabouts, also called this, at the time of the crime.
What is an Alibi
100
Pumpkin seeds have a hard shell, but if you do this to them, it will encourage them
to germinate more quickly.
What is soak them in water?
100
In the fall, we turn our clocks this way, which gives us back the hour of sleep we
lost in the spring.
What is Back?
100
This team has won the most World Series.
What is the New York Yankees?
100
This huge festival runs from September into October in Munich every year.
What is Oktoberfest?
200
Someone guilty of a crime is often called a perp, which is short for this noun.
What is a perpetrator?
200
This part of the pumpkin plant becomes the pumpkin.
What is the flower?
200
The season of fall is also known by this name.
What is Autumn?
200
In 2003, the New York Yankees won 101 games before being eliminated by this team
in the sixth game of the World Series.
What is the Florida Marlins?
200
This happens every second Monday in October in Canada.
What is Thanksgiving?
300
Since observation is the hallmark of a great detective, this type of memory, which
catalogs and remembers everything, is an asset to sleuths.
What is a photographic memory?
300
In this fairy tale, we hear about turning into a pumpkin
after midnight.
What is Cinderella?
300
This is when fall begins south of the equator.
What is March?
300
During this year, the Chicago White Sox conspired to throw
the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in the most famous baseball
scandal in history.
What is 1919?
300
This event doesn’t happen every October, but the three major crashes of this type
have all happened in October.
What is the Stock Market?
400
This is another name for a detective often used in mystery novels to describe an
amateur detective. It begins with the letter s.
What is a sleuth?
400
Pumpkins are full of this nutrient that is often
associated with carrots.
What is Beta-Carotene?
400
After raking leaves, we used to burn them. Today, we do this to them after jumping
in them and before adding them to our garden soil the following spring.
What is composting?
400
This was the year of the first World Series.
What is 1903?
400
Every October, a sea of pink ribbons signifies an
“awareness month” promoting awareness of this
disease that mostly affects women.
What is Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
500
This entrée often rears its ugly head in workplace cafeterias, takes on a grayish
hue, and sometimes even after taking a bite, no one has the first clue what it is.
What is mystery meat?
500
In the nursery rhyme “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater,” Peter put this into his
pumpkin shell for safekeeping.
What is his wife?
500
This author of Wuthering Heights was also a poet who penned “Every leaf speaks
bliss to me/fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Who is Emily Bronte
500
This team won the first World Series.
What is the Boston Americans?
500
Every October, polar bears flood this town in
northern Manitoba, which shares its name with Britain’s
prime minister during World War II.