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100

The country pumpkins originated from

Mexico and Central America

100

The number of straight laces on a football

Eight

100

The age of Canada's oldest maple tree, The Comfort Maple

500 years

100

The original name for Candy corn

Chicken Feed

100

Where the world's largest bat colony lives

Bracken Cave in San Antonio, Texas

200

The orange pigment that gives pumpkins their color

Betacarotene (converts to Vitamin A, essential for healthy vision, skin, and immune function).

200

The character who said, "This year I'm really going to kick that football".

Charlie Brown

200

The first group of people in history to use scarecrows

The Egyptians

200

The main ingredient in "hoppy glop"

Corn

200

The historical figure who inspired the name, Dracula, "son of the Dragon"

Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Dracul III, a 15th century Wallachian Prince named after his father, Vlad Dracul II)

300

The inventor of the famous Pumpkin Spice Latte launched in 2004

Peter Dukes, Starbucks' Espresso Beverage Team Lead

300

This team recorded a song called "The Super Bowl Shuffle" in 1985

Chicago Bears

300

October 1886: the United States received a gift

The Statue of Liberty

300

Name the five General Mills Monster Cereals

Frute Brute, Fruity Yummy Mummy, Count Chocula, Boo-Berry, and Franken-Berry

300

The year Frankenstein was published anonymously

1818 (Author: Mary Shelley)

400

The USA state that grows the most pumpkins

Illinois

400

The only NFL player to participate in both a Super Bowl and a World Series

Deion Sanders

400

When Halloween was first celebrated

~600 AD with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.


400

What Apples were called in colonial times

Winter bananas or Melt-in-the-Mouths!

400

This person lost their head on October 16, 1793 

Marie Antoinette

500

Washington's first Fall Pumpkin Patch

Craven Farm in Snohomish, WA in 1983. 

500

The two teams on the field when a lawnmower-shaped drone killed a fan during the 1979 preseason

Kansas City Chiefs and Carolina Panthers

500

Number of participants on the world's "Largest Hayride" at the 2011 NW Washington Fair

639 riders

(10 hay-covered trailers were pulled by a single snowplow for 11min and 12 seconds in Lynden, WA)

500

The weight of the world's largest 20ft pumpkin pie

3,700 pounds (Baked 2010 in Ohio)

500

This famous magician died on Halloween

Harry Houdini (DOD: October 31st, 1926)

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