All About Fall Trivia Quiz

Answer: fall upon one's feet

"To land upon one's feet" implies becoming stable or centered. Sometimes the two terms, "to fall upon one's feet" and "to land upon one's feet", are used interchangeably.

They may refer to the cat and its well-known ability to land upon its feet.

Cats have a combination of their anatomy, muscles and bone structure, amazingly good internal balance and vision, among other things, which allows them to turn about feet-first quickly and to position themselves so that they land, gliding down, on their four feet.

Answer: Fallen

General Francisco Franco originally built The Valley of the Fallen (El Valle de los Caidos) to honor those who died in the Spanish Civil War. In actual fact, only two are so honored by name: Francisco Franco and Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. The cross is 500 feet high. It was built by the labor, perhaps forced, of some 20,000 political prisoners.

Answer: falleth

This proverb clearly draws on connotations of the Fall. Genesis 7:23 in the King James version speaks of "everything that creeps on the ground." There are many references to crawling or creeping things.
Perhaps, the proverb alludes to the safety of those that creepeth together.

There is of course the proverb "Pride cometh before a fall."

Answer: to fall into place

When you say that it all fell into place, you're saying it dawned upon you; it came together.

"Fall Into Place" is also the title of Apartment's debut album.

Answer: fall guy

The phrase "to be a fall guy" says that a person is being used as a scapegoat, being treated as a dupe. The fall guy is the one who is "taking the fall."
Once, William Safire wrote of a link between the slang word "fall" (meaning to be arrested) and the fall guy, who is the one who will get arrested.

"The Fall Guy" was originally a TV series with Lee Majors which was broadcast from 1981 to 1986.

Answer: downfall

Arthur Miller's 1964 play, 'After the Fall', examines his life and the women in them. Miller said this play takes place "in the rubble, in the ruins of values."
The play reviews his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, his mother, other women and major issues in his life.

Randy Gener interviewed Miller about the play in "Front & Center On-line, Summer 2004."

Answer: evenfall

All definitions say this is the time of twilight, the commencement of evening.

"Evenfall" is also the name of a 30 minute short film concerning a woman spy who is following in the traditions of her father.

Answer: back

In computer science, a fallback is "a mechanism for carrying forth programmed instructions despite malfunction or failure of the primary device" (The Free Dictionary).

Of course, we say, "spring forward and fall back" regarding the beginning and ending of Daylight Saving Time.

Answer: among

"Fall among" gives the idea that this meeting has happened rather accidentally.

Answer: on deaf ears

When something "falls on deaf ears," it means that people can't hear it and pay no attention to it.

There was a music group called The Fall on Deaf Ears. Two of their group were killed in an automobile accident in 1997.

Answer: fall apart

Chinua Achebe's great book, "Things Fall Apart", is a novel that follows the life of Okonkwo, in his village in Nigeria. The book reveals his enormous struggles to deal with change, both within and without his family. Readers have said that when the missionaries arrived, then, for a variety of reasons, began the downfall of Igbo society. Life as people knew it began to fall apart.

The title of the novel is linked to William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming" which has a line "Things fall apart/the center cannot hold."

Answer: fall off

"To fall off" is to lessen in quantity, It is grammatically called a "phrasal verb."

Obviously, to "fall off" could also mean to fall off of something.

Answer: they fall through

To "fall through" indicates that something has not happened or failed, such as our plans for the winter trip fell through unexpectedly.

To "fall short" is a similar phrase meaning that there is not enough of something, such as my salary fell short of what I needed to live.

Answer: shortfall

Very often people write about a fund or a person facing a shortfall of a certain number of dollars. The term seems to date back to 1895.

Answer: waterfall

Waterfalls are divided into ten classes.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's tallest. The beautiful Yosemite Falls in California is the biggest waterfall in the United States. Its vertical drop is 2425 feet.