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Common Bonds
Halloween
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Rhymes with ghost
100
1898
University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell jumps a fence and runs onto the football field to fire up fans, giving birth to this now common sight at football and basketball games.
What are cheerleaders?
100
Emerald
Ruby
Kansas
What is the Wizard of Oz?
100
Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
What is the Mummy?
100
The first sequel to this film was subtitled "Freddy's Revenge"
What is Nightmare on Elmstreet?
100
To talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities
What is boast?
200
1948
In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats this Republican challenger
Who is NY Governor Thomas E. Dewey?
200
Freddy
Shaggy
Velma
What is SCOOBY DOO?
200
It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harves
What are orange and black?
200
Start spreading the news; in "Friday the 13th Part VIII" this hockey-masked slasher "Takes Manhattan"
Who is Jason?
200
Take your foot off the gas and let the car roll (and get a double meaning if you do it alonga scenic drive along this in California!)
What is coast?
300
1942
Happy birthday to her, an American actress best known for her television work, particularly her role in Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Who is Stefanie Powers?
300
Rings
Medals
Torch
What is the OLYMPICS?
300
The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike's better half, hung owls & goblins
Who is Mamie Eisenhower?
300
Film in which Jack Nicholson uttered the immortal line, "Heeeeeere's Johnny"
What is The Shining?
300
A dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan fried.
What is French Toast?
400
1865
Happy birthday to him, the eventual 29th President of the United States.
Who is Warren Harding?
400
Surgeon
Attorney
Five Star
What are GENERALS?
400
Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
What is Gaelic?
400
Max von Sydow played Father Merrin, the title character of this devilish 1973 scarefest. It was the top-grossing R-rated horror film for almost half a century.
What is the Exorcist?
400
In 1969, the Allman Brothers sang that sometimes they feel, sometimes they feel, like they've been tied to this.
What is the whipping post?
500
1795
Happy birthday to him, the eventual 11th President of the United States.
Who is James K. Polk?
500
Angles
Burns
Temperatures
What are things measured in DEGREES?
500
"I got a rock" was Charlie Brown's lament in the 1966 TV special about this "Great" imaginary being
What is the Great Pumpkin?
500
This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods
What is the Blair Witch Project?
500
The policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
What is glasnost?