How it works
These 107 fall trivia questions for adults lean hard on purpose: only 16 are easy, and 42 are written to stump most of the table. The five rounds cover leaf color, the equinox and the calendar, harvest festivals, the orchard, and weather and wildlife.
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From leaf pigments to frozen frogs
Leaves and trees (18 questions) asks which vegetable shares its pigment with a yellow leaf, and why aspen leaves tremble. Sky and calendar (21) runs from the older phrase behind the word fall to the meteor shower that storms every 33 years. Harvest festivals (17) visits the Mid-Autumn Festival, Diwali and Onam. Apples, pumpkins and the harvest has 20. Weather and wildlife has 31, and 16 are hard.
Dinner table or quiz night
At a harvest dinner, read one question between courses and let the line under the answer start the talk: the leaf on Canada's flag has eleven points, and a real sugar maple leaf normally has 23. For a quiz night, Scored round marks 20 questions topic by topic.
- Mixed table? Start with Sky and calendar, which holds 5 of the 16 easy questions, including who composed The Four Seasons.
- Save Weather and wildlife for last. It has the frog that gets through winter frozen and the one bird known to stay torpid for weeks.
- Teens can play, but look at the vocabulary first: the hard questions ask for marcescence, phenology and scatter hoarding.
Questions and answers
Are these fall trivia questions multiple choice?
Yes. Each of the 107 has four choices, and the reason shows when you tap one. They are written for adults, and teens who like a hard question: one asks for the Japanese word for viewing autumn leaves. The levels are our estimate.
Why is there no question about jack-o'-lanterns or the first Thanksgiving?
Other sets on this site already ask them. Jack-o'-lanterns are in the Halloween set for kids, the harvest moon is in the kids set, and the first Thanksgiving is in the Thanksgiving set. Play this one first, then move to those for a longer night.
What did you leave out?
Anything that changes from year to year: the date of this year's equinox, the heaviest pumpkin on record, the week the leaves will peak. Each answer was read on September 19, 2026 in the Wikipedia article linked under it.