Movies
Candy
Costumes
History & Traditions
Fun Facts
100
This Disney Halloween movie is a Halloween classic that features 3 witches known as The Sanderson Sisters.
Hocus Pocus
100
TRUE or FALSE: in Japan adults can buy sake-flavored Kit-Kats.
TRUE
100
This is the most popular costume every year (worldwide) and it typically features a hat and a broom.
Witch
100
The tradition of dressing up in costumes and going door-to-door to ask for candy is called ___________.
Trick-or-treating
100
Before we carved pumpkins, people used to carve ______, a root vegetable pictured below.
Turnip
200
This animated musical was produced by Tim Burton and features songs and scores by Danny Elfman, who also voices the main character Jack Skellington.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
200
This is America's favorite non-chocolate candy and their catchphrase is "taste the rainbow"
Skittles
200
Every year many people dress up as this superhero who got his powers after being bitten by a spider.
Spider-man
200
Jack-o-lanterns originated in this country and became popularized in America due to immigration. This country also has a traditional Halloween bread called barmbrack, or brack for short. Things associated with this country include Guinness beer, soda bread, and shamrocks.
Ireland
200
The average American spends $_____ a year on Halloween-related items.
Choices: $500 / $25 / $100
$100
300
This movie was released in the 90's, stars a young Christina Ricci and is all about her adventure with a friendly ghost that haunts her new home.
Casper
300
Even though we typically only eat this candy during the Halloween season and its considered a "classic", it has made America's list for the "worst" candy and it resembles a corn kernel.
Candy Corn
300
This is the most popular type of costume for little girls and some notable characters are Cinderella and Snow White
Princesses
300
Before we called it Halloween, Celtics dressed up in costumes during Samhain to scare off who/what?
Ghosts
300
This city, also known as The Big Apple, hosts the biggest Halloween parade in the U.S. and got its start due to a Greenwich Village resident and puppeteer.
New York City
400
This horror movie was considered very controversial when it was released in 1973 and is based on the real-life 1949 exorcism of a young boy, known by the pseudonym Roland Doe. Linda Blair plays the possessed character in this film.
The Exorcist
400
Throughout America this is the most popular candy choice on Halloween and it's made from chocolate and peanut butter.
Reese's PB Cups
(fav candy does vary by state, but this is most popular overall)
400
The average person spends $____ on a Halloween costume. Choices: $122, $74, $36
$74
400
Trick-or-treating comes from an old Celt tradition called _______, which occurred during Samhain where poor children would go door-to-door begging for food and money. In exchange for their generosity, the children would offer to pray for the souls of their recently lost loved ones.
Souling
400
This is the most popular Halloween song and it reached #1 on the Hot Billboard 100 list in 1962.
Hint: M________ M____.
Monster Mash
500
This well-known horror movie was released in 1978, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and was filmed in 20 days.
Halloween
500
This famous candy comes in many different varieties, including peanut, peanut butter, pretzel, crispy & caramel and it's slogan is "melts in your mouth, not in your hands"
M&M's
500
Over ____% of adults dress up for Halloween each year, making this holiday not just for kids anymore!
Choices: 30%, 60%, 75%
60%
500
The night before Halloween is called ________ due to all the pranking that occurs such as egging cars and toilet papering houses.
Mischief Night or Goosey Night
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500
Halloween is the ____ most popular commercial holiday in America.
(1st, 2nd, 3rd...)
2nd
600
The highest-grossing Halloween movie to date.
It (the 2017 version - $701.8 Million)
600
The Milky Way candy bar is named after a system of billions of stars held together by gravitational attraction called _________.
A Galaxy
600
This is the most popular choice for your dog's Halloween costume and it's also the thing we carve each year after we've emptied it's guts and seeds.
Pumpkin
600
Today's Halloween traditions come from the pagan holiday _______, which is a Celtic festival that marks the end of the harvest season and the start on winter and also marked the Celtic New Year; this is still celebrated today by pagans.
Samhain
600
This state produces 5 times the amount of pumpkins than any other state & has two nicknames: the land of Lincoln and the prairie state.
Illinois
