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Humans Are Funny in Fall
100
In 1953, a food company accidentally made 260 tons of leftover turkey, which led to this frozen dinner invention.
A) Hungry-Man
B) Swanson TV Dinner
C) Banquet Feast
Answer: 🥶 What is the Swanson TV Dinner?
100
The fear of leaves falling is called:
A) Phyllophobia
B) Arboranxiety
C) Leafitis
Answer: 🍂 What is Phyllophobia?
100
Squirrels forget about what percent of the nuts they bury?
A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 80%
Answer: 🌰 What is 50%? (They’re accidental foresters!)
100
The month of November got its name from the Latin word for:
A) Nine
B) Snow
C) Nest
Answer: 📅 What is nine?
100
In 1996, this U.S. state made it illegal to mislead a turkey with corn before hunting.
A) Alabama
B) Tennessee
C) Maine
Answer: 🦃 What is Tennessee?
200
Americans eat around how many pounds of turkey every Thanksgiving?
A) 100 million
B) 500 million
C) 1.4 billion
Answer: 🦃 What is 1.4 billion pounds?
200
In 2003, this U.S. town was buried under 95 inches of snow in just five days.
A) Erie, PA
B) Buffalo, NY
C) Anchorage, AK
Answer: ❄️ What is Buffalo, NY?
200
This clever bird stores thousands of seeds for winter — and remembers almost every one.
A) Blue jay
B) Clark’s nutcracker
C) Crow
Answer: 🐦 What is Clark’s nutcracker?
200
In the UK, November used to have a “Fool’s Day” in some towns — what silly thing happened?
A) People chased geese through the streets
B) Everyone wore their clothes backward for a day
C) They threw roasted chestnuts at strangers
Answer: 🦆 What is people chased geese through the streets? (Autumn chaos, medieval style!)
200
Every fall, Chicago’s Cloud Gate (“The Bean”) has to be cleaned for this odd reason.
A) Pumpkin latte spills
B) Leaf stains
C) Static cling from sweaters
Answer: ☕ What is pumpkin latte spills?
300
Before pumpkin spice lattes, Starbucks tested another fall drink flavor — it failed miserably.
A) Caramel apple latte
B) Turkey gravy latte
C) Sweet potato latte
Answer: ☕ What is a sweet potato latte?
300
In Japan, there’s a word for the sound of leaves rustling — it’s said to sound like:
A) A whispering ghost
B) A cat walking on paper
C) The sigh of autumn itself
Answer: 🍃 What is “the sigh of autumn itself”? (The word kaze no oto literally means “sound of wind.” Poetic much?)
300
Beavers can hold their breath underwater for up to:
A) 2 minutes
B) 10 minutes
C) 15 minutes
Answer: 🦫 What is 15 minutes?
300
November is famous for a meteor shower named after:
A) Shooting stars that taste like candy
B) Leonids
C) Falling pancakes
Answer: 🌠 What is Leonids? (Peaks around mid-November—space confetti!)
300
November used to be the month for this ancient Roman festival of eating and joking, kind of a “proto-Thanksgiving.”
A) Saturnalia
B) Brumalia
C) Novalia
Answer: 🍷 What is Brumalia?
400
How did early settlers in New England make their first pumpkin "pies"?
A) They used pumpkin vines to make the crust
B) They took out the insides and cooked the filling inside the whole pumpkin shell
C) They dried the pumpkin skin and made flour
D) They made pumpkin juice first
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400
What unusual thing can happen if lightning strikes a pile of autumn leaves?
A) The leaves turn into glass
B) They burst into instant confetti
C) They can fuse into a glowing ash sculpture
Answer: ⚡ What is they can fuse into a glowing ash sculpture? (The heat can create “fulgurite,” a glassy formation!)
400
In fall, a certain type of caterpillar hibernates inside a leaf… and turns the leaf into a tiny fort. Which one?
A) Leaf-rolling caterpillar
B) Hungry inchworm
C) Autumn ninja worm
Answer: 🐛 What is leaf-rolling caterpillar? (They literally curl the leaf into a cozy sleeping bag!)
400
In Canada, there’s a November tradition called “Terry Fox Run” — it honors a guy who:
A) Ran across the country to fight cancer
B) Tried to ride a moose across Canada
C) Invented maple syrup-flavored energy drinks
Answer: 🏃♂️ What is ran across the country to fight cancer? (True hero vibes!)
400
Some ancient Romans believed November rain had magical powers to:
A) Heal wounds
B) Make hair grow
C) Keep away ghosts
Answer: 💦 What is make hair grow?
500
Scientists found the smell of pumpkin pie can boost this by 20% in men.
A) Memory
B) Appetite
C) Blood flow
Answer: 😳 What is blood flow? (scent studies say so!)
500
In Alaska, fall sometimes lasts only:
A) 1 day
B) 1 week
C) 1 month
Answer: 🫎 What is 1 week? (Locals joke fall’s over once your pumpkin freezes solid overnight.)
500
There’s a mushroom that smells exactly like:
A) Chocolate cake
B) Rotten peanut butter
C) Cotton candy
Answer: 🤢 What is rotten peanut butter? (The Hydnellum peckii literally oozes a red liquid that smells funky but attracts insects.)
500
November was once the month when people made candles from animal fat for the winter. This process was called:
A) Waxing season
B) Tallowing
C) Grease month
Answer: 🕯️ What is tallowing?
500
In 2013, Finland tried something unusual in November:
A) A “darkness marathon” — people ran wearing headlamps
B) They held a festival for snow-free snowmen
C) They tried to grow pumpkins upside-down
Answer: 🏃♀️ What is a “darkness marathon” — people ran wearing headlamps? (November = nearly endless night!)