autumn
Autumn is also called fall in North American English. This topic is part of Seasons within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
autumn trivia questions
Autumn is the season between summer and what?
Answer: Winter
Bonus fact: Autumn is also called fall in North American English.
What event marks the astronomical beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: September equinox
Bonus fact: The September equinox occurs around September 22 or 23.
Why do many deciduous leaves turn yellow and orange in autumn?
Answer: Chlorophyll breaks down and other pigments become visible
Bonus fact: Carotenoid pigments are revealed as green chlorophyll disappears.
Who wrote To Autumn?
Answer: John Keats
Bonus fact: Keats wrote the poem in 1819.
Which season is celebrated in To Autumn?
Answer: Autumn
Bonus fact: The poem is one of Keats's great odes.
What imagery dominates To Autumn?
Answer: Ripeness, harvest, and seasonal change
Bonus fact: Keats presents autumn as a season of abundance and approaching change.
Who wrote The Autumn of the Patriarch?
Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
Bonus fact: The novel was published in 1975.
The Autumn of the Patriarch centers on what kind of ruler?
Answer: Aging dictator
Bonus fact: The unnamed tyrant embodies Latin American dictatorship.
An Autumn Afternoon was the final film of which Japanese director?
Answer: Yasujirō Ozu
Bonus fact: BFI lists An Autumn Afternoon as a 1962 Japanese film and identifies it as Ozu's final film.
A deciduous tree does what seasonally?
Answer: Sheds its leaves
Bonus fact: Many temperate deciduous trees lose leaves in autumn.
Władysław Reymont structured The Peasants around what four-part cycle?
Answer: The four seasons
Bonus fact: NobelPrize.org says the novel's sections correspond to autumn, winter, spring, and summer.
Many temperate hardwood trees lose their leaves in what season?
Answer: Autumn
Bonus fact: Deciduous trees shed leaves before winter.