120 free Fall Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This fall trivia for kids quiz is written for children roughly six to twelve, and for the teachers, parents and party hosts who need a round of easy autumn questions. It covers the things kids actually notice in fall: leaves turning yellow and red, acorns and squirrels, pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns, apple picking and cider, animals getting ready to hibernate or fly south, the harvest moon and the first day of autumn, plus the big fall holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Bonfire Night, Diwali and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Everything is kid-safe. If you want the grown-up version, our main autumn trivia quiz has the harder questions. The questions start very easy (what colour a pumpkin usually is, what a baby sheep is not) and get a little trickier for older kids and parents (what makes leaves turn yellow, why squirrels bury acorns, which bird holds the record for the longest migration, how much the heaviest pumpkin ever weighed). Most of it can be worked out with a little thinking. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry for the subject before publishing, and the sentence that supports it is stored with each question.
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Q 01What is another name for the season called fall?
Autumn
North Americans say fall; most other English speakers say autumn.
Q 02Fall comes between which two seasons?
Summer and winter
Days get shorter and nights get longer as the season goes on.
Q 03In which month does fall begin in the Northern Hemisphere?
September
In the Southern Hemisphere it begins in March.
Q 04Which three months do weather forecasters call fall in the Northern Hemisphere?
September, October, November
South of the equator, fall is March, April and May.
Q 05What happens to the days as fall goes on?
They get shorter
This carries on until the shortest day, the winter solstice in December.
Q 06Which US holiday is often treated as the informal end of summer and start of fall?
Labor Day
It falls on the first Monday in September.
Q 07The season's other name comes from which old language?
Latin
Autumnus may go back even further, to an Etruscan word about the passing of the year.
Q 08What is the day in early fall when day and night are about the same length called?
The equinox
It falls between September 21 and 24.
Q 09On the day in fall when day and night are equal, where does the Sun rise and set?
Due east and west
After that it rises and sets a little further south each day.
Q 10When it is fall in the Northern Hemisphere, what season starts in the Southern Hemisphere?
Spring
The same equinox marks two different seasons.
Q 11Which colours do leaves turn in the fall?
Yellow, orange, red and brown
Some places, like New England, get tourists just to see them.
Q 12What is the green stuff in leaves called?
Chlorophyll
It sits inside tiny parts of the leaf called chloroplasts.
Q 13Why do leaves lose their summer colour in the fall?
Their green pigment breaks down
Red colours come from new pigments called anthocyanins.
Where do the yellow colours in fall leaves come from?
Q 21What colour are most pumpkins?
Orange
White and green pumpkins exist too.
Q 22A pumpkin is a type of what?
Squash
Botanically its fruit is a kind of berry called a pepo.
Q 23How much did the record-setting heaviest pumpkin of 2023 weigh?
About 2,749 pounds
That is more than a small car.
Q 24Which little creatures usually pollinate pumpkin flowers?
Pigments hidden in the leaf all summer
Carotenoids are there all along, masked by the green.
Q 15What does the green pigment in a leaf do for the plant?
Catches sunlight to make food
It makes simple sugars out of water and carbon dioxide.
Q 16What is the name for tourists who travel to look at colourful fall leaves?
Leaf peepers
In parts of Canada and the US it is big business.
Q 17What word describes trees that drop their leaves every year?
Deciduous
It means falling off at maturity; baby teeth are called deciduous teeth for the same reason.
Q 18What is the opposite of a tree that drops all its leaves each year?
An evergreen
Evergreens do drop leaves, just not all at once.
Q 19What is the name for all the leaves on a tree taken together?
Foliage
As in 'autumn foliage'.
Q 20What do leaves take in from the air to make food?
Carbon dioxide
They give oxygen back out.
Bees
Pumpkins make both male and female flowers.
Q 25Where were pumpkins first grown, thousands of years ago?
North America
Pumpkin fragments found in Mexico are 7,000 to 5,500 years old.
Q 26What is inside a pumpkin's thick shell?
Seeds and pulp
The seeds are edible too.
Q 27What is a carved pumpkin with a face called?
A jack-o'-lantern
They are hung out as decorations for Halloween.
Q 28Before pumpkins, what vegetable did people in Ireland carve into lanterns?
Turnips
Immigrants brought the idea to America, where pumpkins were bigger and easier.
Q 29The carved pumpkin lantern is linked to an Irish legend about a man called what?
Stingy Jack
He was doomed to roam with only a hollowed turnip to light his way.
Q 30How do you turn a pumpkin into a Halloween lantern?
Cut a lid, scoop, carve a face
The face is usually scary or funny.