Spooky Movies
Who you gonna call?
Ghostbusters
Snickers ________
Satisfies
The _____ is transformed not by a kiss but when the princess hurls it against her bedroom wall.
Frog
On the night of October 31, the Celtics celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ___________ returned to earth.
Ghosts of the Dead
In this Tim Burton movie, the Skeleton King makes his grand entrance into another famous holiday.
The Nightmare Before Chirstmas
How many grams of sugar in a king size Hershey's milk chocolate bar?
14 grams
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm didn’t intend their collection of fairy tales to be for children at all. It was part of a scholarly project to identify and preserve the true spirit of the _______ people.
German
Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago mostly in what is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on what day?
November 1st
In this next Tim Burton movie, a little girl must escape her Other Mother.
Coraline
The number one selling Halloween Candy.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Partly because of the Grimms’ original intent to preserve a truly Germanic folk literature, the ______ tried to appropriate Children’s and Household Tales for their own ideological purposes.
Nazis
Thus, a new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend more than ________ annually on Halloween, making it the country’s second largest commercial holiday after Christmas.
11 Billion
In this Claymation film, 3 kids must ban together to stop a monster, that to everyone else is just another common building in the neighborhood.
Monster House.
Invented in the 1880s by George Renninger and originally called, "Chicken Feed"
Candy Corn
It’s a little hazel tree _________ has watered with her tears that provides her the necessary ballgown.
Cinderella
In the second half of the 19th century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing the ___________ helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally.
Irish Potato Famine
In this tragic tale, a wedding in the 1880's has one man in two very different worlds.
The Corpse Bride
Americans are expected to spend how much on Halloween Candy this year?
3.9 Billion
The Final Edition of the Brothers' Grimm was published in what year?
1857
By A.D. 43, the Roman Empire had conquered most Celtic territory. During the 400 years it ruled the Celtic lands, two Roman festivals were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. Name 1 of those 2 festivals.
Feralia (a day in late October when the Romans commemorated the passing of the dead), and Pomona (the Roman goddess of fruit and trees).
This warm hearted cartoon movie first aired on October 27th, 1966, and follows the story of a child with a blanket, a boy with a strange dog (who fancies himself as a WWI flying ace), and a tale of something that rises from the pumpkin patch to deliver presents to children.
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown