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Test Yourself

Quiz: How much do you know about autumn?

Cosy jumpers and crunchy leaves are on the way.

WITH THE EVENINGS getting noticeably darker and the temperature slowly starting to drop, it’s fair to say that autumn is well and truly upon us.

According to Met Éireann, autumn begins on the first of September and lasts until the end of November.

Many people regard autumn as their favourite season, bringing with it falling leaves, cosy jumpers and Halloween.

But can you conker our autumn quiz? Test yourself below.

To start us off, what is autumn known as in the United States?
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Rise
Fall

Slip
Tumble
The full moon closest to the autumn equinox is traditionally known as a what?
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Blue moon
Blood moon

Harvest moon
Supermoon
Complete the title of this famous song, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday: Autumn in...
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Dublin
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London

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New York
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Paris
Which famous poet wrote the poem 'To Autumn'?
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John Keats
William Butler Yeats

William Wordsworth
Robert Frost
Which of these astrology signs does not appear during the autumn season?
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Libra
Scorpio

Sagittarius
Taurus
Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival, takes place every autumn in which German city?
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Berlin
Frankfurt

Hamburg
Munich
What is the name of the pigment that trees stop producing in autumn, which causes the leaves to turn red, orange and yellow?
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Anthocyanins
Betalains

Chlorophylls
Porphyrins
Squirrels begin to bury acorns in the autumn, but which birds do the same?
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Jackdaws
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Jays

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Magpies
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Rooks
Halloween dates back to the Celtic festival of Samhain, which fell on 1 November. Which of the four major pagan festivals comes first after Samhain?
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Imbolc
Bealtaine

Lúnasa
Fómhair
Finally, which of these flowers does not bloom in autumn?
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Asters
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Chrysanthemums

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Dahlias
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Hyacinths
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