Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
This company, famous for its golden ticket, was the inspiration for a 1971 movie starring Gene Wilder.
What is the Wonka Chocolate Company?
In the original Child's Play film, the murderous doll Chucky terrorizes a young boy and his family in this American city.
What is Chicago?
This is the location of the HIMSS 2025 European Conference.
What is Paris?
In 1692, this Massachusetts village became infamous for its series of trials that led to the execution of 20 people accused of witchcraft.
What is Salem?
I am full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of water.
What is a sponge?
This Chicago-based company, founded in 1904, is known for creating iconic candies like Lemonheads and Red Hots.
What is Ferrara Candy Company?
This is the name of the cat in Disney's "Hocus Pocus".
This is the year that HIMSS was founded.
What is 1961?
This infamous mobster, known as "Scarface," was one of the most well-known inmates of Alcatraz during the 1930s.
Who is Al Capone?
I can travel around the world while staying in the same corner.
What is a stamp?
This company is famous for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
What is Hershey's?
In this special, Sally becomes angry after missing trick-or-treating and a Halloween party to wait with Linus for this figure.
Who is the Great Pumpkin?
This is what AMAM stands for.
What is Analytics Maturity Assessment Model?
This hotel in Colorado inspired Stephen King to write "The Shining" after he stayed in room 217.
What is the Stanley Hotel?
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish.
What is a map?
This candy bar was introduced in 1930 and was named after its creator's family's favorite horse.
What is Snickers?
This square-shaped pumpkin is the hero of a Halloween-themed children's story.
Who is Spookley?
This is the cost of a HIMSS student membership.
What is $30?
This haunted Illinois prison, which closed in 2002, is famous for paranormal activity and housed notorious criminals like John Wayne Gacy.
What is the Joliet Correctional Center?
I run but never walk, have a bed but never sleep, and have a mouth but never eat.
What is a river?
This confection, invented in 1893 by a dentist, was originally called "Fairy Floss".
What is cotton candy?
This movie's iconic theme music was composed by John Carpenter in 1978.
What is Halloween?
This is the number of Christine's that currently work for HIMSS.
What is 4?
In 1590, the Roanoke Colony vanished, leaving only this cryptic word carved into a tree.
What is "Croatoan"?