Halloween Trivia
About how many pieces of candy does the average trick-or-treater collect? (Hint: there's a range).
Between 50-90 pieces.
Four zombies have to share a massive chocolate bar that weighs 52 pounds. If they split it evenly, how much chocolate does each zombie get? (No calculator!!)
13 pounds.
How many Skittles colors are in a standard pack of Skittles?
Five: red, orange, yellow, green, purple.
After trick-or-treating, you have 128 pieces of candy. If you eat 7, your friend Joey eats 21, your brother eats 17 and your friend Molly gives you 13 pieces, how many pieces of candy do you have left?
96 pieces of candy.
Finish the lyric: “If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?”
Ghostbusters!
Is a pumpkin technically a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit.
You decide to trick-or-treat around the outer edge of a haunted block that is shaped like a rectangle. The haunted block is 50.25 yards by 26 yards. What is the total distance you and your friends walk if you walk around the entire block?
152.5 yards
What are the three colors of traditional candy corn from top to bottom?
White, orange, yellow.
A skeleton gets on an elevator in a haunted hotel at Floor 1. The elevator goes down 6 floors to the basement crypt then it goes up 12 floors to the spooky attic and then drops 3 floors to the monster mash. What floor did the skeleton end up on?
Floor 4
What was the most popular costume last year?
K-Pop Demon Hunters.
What do you call a group of witches?
A coven.
A vampire mayor decides to have a 15% candy tax on all trick-or-treat bags. If Ms. Gonzalez has 180 pieces of candy, how many pieces will she give to the mayor?
27 pieces.
Which Holiday sells the most candy in the US: Halloween, Christmas, Easter or Valentine's?
Halloween!
A pumpkin patch charges $3 entry fee and $5 per pumpkin. Write a rule for how much it would cost to buy x pumpkins.
y=5x+3
The slow-moving mummy that's chasing you shuffles 1/12 of a mile every 1/4 of an hour. How fast is it shuffling in miles per hour?
1/3 miles per hour.
What country does Halloween come from?
Ireland
For every 3 pieces of candy corn in a mixture, there are 2 chocolate eyeballs. If a bowl has 12 pieces of candy corn, how many chocolate eyeballs are there?
8 chocolate eyeballs.
Which of the following is the most popular Halloween candy: KitKat, Reese's, Snickers, Milky Way, M&Ms or Tootsie Rolls.
Reese's
A witch knocks over her cauldron and spills her potion, creating a puddle in the shape of a circle. If the circle has a radius of 7 inches, what is the total area of the puddle?
49π inches squared (153.94 inches squared).
Which Halloween candy was originally referred to as "chicken feed?"
Candy Corn
What was the most popular Halloween costume in 2014?
Elsa and Olaf
You and a friend want to combine your candy. You have 3(2h+4) pieces of candy and your friend has 3h+7, where h represents the number of houses you visited. Write an expression for how much candy you have together.
9h+19
What candy bar is named after a horse?
Snickers
(The Mars family's favorite horse).
A mummy already has 45 pieces of candy. She visits a neighborhood where each house gives exactly 3 pieces of candy. If the mummy wants 150 pieces of candy total, how many houses does she have to visit?
35 houses.
Write a rule for the following table:
x: 2 | -1 | 5 | -3 | 0 |
y: 11| 5 | 17 | 1 | 7 |
y=2x+7