Halloween Traditions
This is the act of children dressing up in costumes and going from house to house in search of candy.
What is Trick-or-Treating?
Halloween is always celebrated on the very last day of this spooky month.
What is October?
This iconic treat, a mix of peanut butter and milk chocolate, is consistently ranked as America's #1 favorite Halloween candy.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
This caped, blood-drinking Count from Transylvania is arguably the most famous vampire in history.
Who is Count Dracula?
This simple costume, often made with just an old white sheet and a pair of scissors, has been a last-minute classic for generations.
What is a ghost?
This is the general name for the iconic pirate flag, which most famously features a white skull and crossbones on a black background.
What is the Jolly Roger?
This is the name for a hollowed-out pumpkin with a face carved into it, which is then illuminated with a candle.
What is a Jack-o-Lantern?
These are the two traditional colors of Halloween, one representing the fall harvest and the other representing darkness and death.
What are Black and Orange?
First, they're sour, then they're sweet; this brand of gummy humanoids is a tart and chewy trick-or-treat favorite.
What are Sour Patch Kids?
Often incorrectly called by his creator's name, this monster was assembled from body parts and brought to life by electricity.
What is Frankenstein's Monster?
The release of this 1977 space opera created a massive demand for costumes of its dark-helmeted villain, Wookiee co-pilot, and robed-princess heroine.
What is Star Wars?
Played by Johnny Depp, this rum-loving, swashbuckling character is the legendary captain of the Black Pearl.
Who is Capt. Jack Sparrow?
This animal, considered a "familiar" or companion to witches, is a common Halloween superstition said to bring bad luck if it crosses your path.
What is a black cat?
This is the large orange gourd that people carve faces into to make jack-o'-lanterns.
What is a pumpkin?
This brand's "fun size" pack famously contains two bars: a "left" and a "right" stick of cookie, caramel, and chocolate.
What is Twix?
According to folklore, this creature is a human who involuntarily transforms into a beast at the sight of a full moon.
What is a Werewolf?
In the mid-2010s, "Elsa" from this Disney film became so popular it broke a 10-year streak of "princess" being the top-selling costume for girls.
What is Frozen?
This fearsome English pirate, real name Edward Teach, was known for tying slow-burning fuses into his long, dark beard to intimidate his enemies.
Who is Blackbeard?
We normally have a tradition to do one of these every Halloween, where we search for spooky objects from a list Nana gives us.
What is a scavenger hunt?
During this global conflict in the 1940s, sugar rationing forced trick-or-treaters to receive items like coins, nuts, and small toys instead of candy.
What is WWII?
Invented in the 1880s by George Renninger, this divisive, tri-colored candy was originally called "Chicken Feed."
What is Candy Corn?
Along with sunlight and a stake through the heart, this pungent-smelling bulb is a classic item used to ward off vampires.
What is garlic?
Sparked by a 2001 film, the costume for this boy wizard—consisting of round glasses, a wand, a lightning scar, and a black robe—dominated the 2000s.
Who is Harry Potter?
In Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island, this one-legged ship's cook with a parrot on his shoulder is the main antagonist. His name also inspired a brand of fast seafood restaurants.
Who is Long John Silver?
One of the best treats on Halloween comes from Auntie with her bread and cider, both made with this fruit.
What are apples?
This group of 19th-century immigrants is credited with popularizing Halloween in the United States, bringing their traditions with them.
Who are the Irish?
This coconut and dark chocolate bar is the nutty counterpart to its milk chocolate and almond-topped sibling, the Almond Joy.
What is Mounds?
This 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson tells of a London doctor who uses a serum to split his personality into a good and an evil side.
What is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
After the 2008 film The Dark Knight, this villain's costume of a purple suit, green vest, and smeared makeup became the most popular adult costume of the year.
Who is The Joker?
This type of ship was one of the biggest that could be pirated in the 18th century and shares its name with a jellyfish that has really big testi... I mean tentacles.
What is a Man o' War?
This classic party game, which involves trying to grab an apple from a tub of water with just your teeth, was once a Roman harvest tradition.
What is bobbing for apples?
The ancient Celts believed the line between the living and this group was blurred on Samhain, so they wore costumes to hide from them.
What are the dead?
Adjusting for inflation, this candy bar would have to be called a $1,045,000 Bar if it was created today.
What is a 100 Grand Bar?
Bela Lugosi is the iconic actor for Dracula, while this British actor is famous for his 1931 portrayal of Frankenstein's monster.
Who is Boris Karloff?
Before the rise of plastic in the 1950s, early 20th-century mass-produced Halloween masks were typically made of this lightweight, flammable, open-mesh fabric.
What is gauze?
This term was used for a "legal" pirate, or a sailor granted a government document called a "letter of marque" that allowed them to attack and capture enemy ships.
What is a privateer?
The name "Hallowe'en" is a Scottish shortening of this "holy" evening, the night before November 1st.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
Before pumpkins, the Irish and Scottish carved spooky faces into these small, purple-and-white root vegetables.
What are turnips?
These small, sour, and crunchy fruit-flavored pebbles are often sold in a box with two different flavors, separated by a divider.
What are Nerds?
This real-life 15th-century Romanian prince, infamous for his cruelty, served as the primary historical inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
In 1993, this fast-food chain recalled 100,000 of its flame-retardant "Pink Panther" costumes, which were made of 100% polyurethane foam.
What is McDonald's?
Name one of the two 18th-century female pirates, who disguised themselves as men, were captured while sailing on the ship of "Calico Jack" Rackham.
Who is Mary Read or Anne Bonny?
Many modern Halloween traditions, like wearing costumes and lighting bonfires, originated with this ancient Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest.
What is Samhain?
The word "bonfire" comes from the Samhain "bone fires," where priests would throw these into the flames as a sacrifice.
What are animal bones?
Though the exact taste is a mystery, the most-cited flavor for the classic red version of this chewy, aquatic-shaped candy is lingonberry.
What is Swedish Fish?
This 1922 silent German Expressionist film, an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, featured the terrifying "Count Orlok."
What is Nosferatu?
In the 1970s and 80s, this New York-based company, founded in 1937, was the undisputed king of children's boxed costumes, famous for its "smocks" and masks.
What is Ben Cooper Inc.?
This 18th-century "Pirate Republic" was a notorious haven for pirates like Blackbeard and Charles Vane, was governed by its own "pirate code."
What is Nassau, Bahamas?