Creepy Encounters
It can be creepy to become separated from your group in this outdoor, natural maze that crops up during the fall harvest season.
What is corn maze?
The maze is cut through tall corn stalks and can go on for acres
This is the United Kingdom’s public TV networks.
What is BBC?
It began as a radio network in 1922. Today, it’s the world’s largest broadcaster.
If you have skeletons in your closet, it’s not a good idea to cast this stone.
What is first?
It’s best to think twice before criticizing others.
Fall runs from this mid-month through this mid-month in the northern hemisphere.
What is September through December?
This timeframe is astronomical fall. Meteorologists use a different calendar; meteorological fall runs September through November
Area 51 is located in which US state?
What is Nevada?
In the original series that aired from 1959 to 1964, Rod Serling brought creepy sci-fi to the small screen in this TV series.
What is The Twilight Zone?
The website IMDB.com describes the series in this way: “Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.” Some episodes can raise the hair on your skin.
Before its fall from the top position, this cable news network was renowned for its live coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial and Operation Desert Storm.
What is CNN?
Cable viewership has fallen dramatically. Most of the broadcast and cable news networks have dropped their foreign bureaus, and many people have cut cable and moved to streaming services.
When you’re dressed up, you are said to be dressed to this number.
What is nine or the nines?
The idiom dressed to the nines is used when someone is dressed in formal attire
When this debris enters Earth’s atmosphere, it burns up and creates these showers.
What is meteor?
The Taurid meteor shower occurs every year in mid-autumn
This US Presidents portrait is on the front of the $50 bill.
Who is President Grant?
These Halloween houses with warped mirrors can scare young children.
What are funhouses?
People typically enter these houses through creepy mouths and encounter spooky scenes throughout the house
This is Canada’s public TV network.
What is CBC? Founded in 1932 as the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, it added television in 1955.
Sometimes you can kill this number of birds with one stone.
What is two?
When we solve two problems at the same time, we kill two birds with one stone
Americans spend millions of dollars every autumn on this orange fruit.
What is pumpkin?
Didn’t realize pumpkins were a fruit? Scientifically speaking, anything that starts from a flower is botanically a fruit.
This person was the first to discover penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London.
The shower scene in this Alfred Hitchcock film is famously frightening.
What is Psycho?
As Hitchcock does in most films he directs, he makes a cameo appearance in Psycho.
This number of days was dedicated to broadcasting the details after President Kennedy’s assassination.
What is four?
There was no entertainment and little other news coverage in print or on the airwaves other than the assassination. The New York Times captured it all in the commemorative book Four Days in November: The Original Coverage of the John F. Kennedy Assassination.
It will never happen in this number of years.
What is a million?
People say “It will never happen in a million years” when the chances of something happening are the same as the chances of winning the lottery
This causes the leaves to change colors.
What is fewer hours of sunlight?
As sunlight diminishes, there is a decline in chlorophyll, which is responsible for the leaves’ green color. The intensity of fall colors depends on a range of factors: temperature, precipitation, and the amount of sunlight.
This is how many phases of the Moon there are while completing its monthly cycle.
What is 8?
The moon phases in order are : new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent
He wrote a scary poem about a raven that spoke.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The most remembered and quoted line from “The Raven” is “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
This TV franchise has made life more difficult for prosecutors and has caused jurors to have unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence.
What is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?
It’s called “the CSI effect” because on this and similar shows, the characters solve crimes through forensic evidence in the space of one hour.
When someone is being interrogated, they are getting this degree.
What is the third?
When a parent questions their child, the child sometimes accuses their parent of giving them the third degree
Apple juice begins its journey as another juice processed from apples.
What is apple cider?
According to the Huffington Post, “Apple cider is picked, washed, ground, pressed fresh juice. Apple juice starts off as cider and then is concentrated into syrup or powder then reconstituted with water and hermetically bottled to be shelf safe.”
This is the Earths longest river.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
It flows 4,345 miles from the Peruvian Andes through Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. The titled used to belong to the Nile River which runs 4,258 miles from the mountains of Burundi.