in season

1 Who led the failed peasant revolt known as the Autumn Harvest Uprising, in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, in September 1927?

2 What classic John Ford western sees a displaced Native American tribe trekking more than 2,000km back to their homeland?

3 What astronomical term is used to signify the biannual event, occurring in March and September, when day and night are of almost equal length?

4 Which 19th-century British poet described autumn as a 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'?

5 As part of this week's Mid-Autumn Festival, a dragon made of burning joss sticks is paraded in which part of Hong Kong?

6 Which Neil Young album features Old King, an ode to his dog?

7 Declining levels of what plant pigment cause the leaves of trees to change colour in autumn?

8 Louis Armstrong recorded a duet of jazz standard Autumn in New York with which of his contemporaries?

9 Which landscape photographer is famous for his 1948 image, called Autumn Moon, of a moonlit night in Yosemite National Park?

10 Who said: 'The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality'?

Solution 1 Mao Zedong 2 Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 3 Equinox 4 John Keats 5 Tai Hang 6 Harvest Moon (1992) 7 Chlorophyll 8 Ella Fitzgerald 9 Ansel Adams 10 Martin Luther King Jnr.