Myths and Stories
What do the Halloween colors black and orange signify?
Orange is the harvest
Black represents death
The average kid consumes how many calories on Halloween night?
a) 7,000 calories
b) 250 calories
c) 1,200 calories
a) 7,000 calories! You'd have to walk for 44 hours to burn that many calories!
What is the favorite drink at Hogwarts?
Butter Beer!
What is another name for a carved pumpkin?
Jack-O-Lantern
What do Linus and Charlie Brown wait for each Halloween?
Bonus question: Which comic strip brought Halloween into popularity in the U.S.?
The Great Pumpkin
bonus answer: Peanuts! (Charlie Brown)
What region are Vampire Bats from?
Southern argentina
Instead of candy, what did kids originally receive while trick-or-treating?
a) cards
b) money
c) food and drinks
c) food and drinks
How many bones are in the bones are in the human body?
216
What color of cat is a symbol of bad luck on Halloween?
Black
What is the First name of Dr. Frankenstein?
a) Phillip
b) Victor
c) Frank
Bonus: Who wrote the book "Frankenstein?"
b) Victor
bonus answer: Mary Shelley
Why did people start opening haunted houses?
a) Because people liked being scared
b) because there were abandoned houses and people wanted tours
c) to keep teenage boys from destroying property
c) After the great depression, teenage boys were causing problems, tipping over cars, and damaging property. People decided to start doing Halloween activities to keep them busy so they could have fun without destroying everything.
How many colors of M&M's are there?
a) 5
b) 25
c) 13
b) 25
What bone found in the head is often used as a symbol of Halloween?
The skull (cranium)
What is the name of the pot normally used by witches to brew their potions?
Cauldron
True or False:
The word "Hallow" means "Saint or Holy Person"
True
Why do people believe witches fly on brooms?
a) because of an old tradition called the "broomstick dance"
b) because brooms were often dirty and spooky in the closet
c) because flying on a vacuum cleaner would be ridiculous
A) Back in 1451, there was an old Pagan ritual called the "broomstick dance" where people would spin and jump around broomsticks, and this was confused to be accounts of witches flying
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
252
If you were going to make a witch's potion that bubbled, which of these could you try?
a) Apple juice and black pepper
b) Ice and grape soda
c) Dry ice and root beer
c) Dry ice and root beer. The dry ice not only makes the "potion" bubble, but it also gets "smoky."
Aside from sucking blood, what else do vampires and bats have in common?
They only come out at night
True or False
Halloween is the eve of all saint's day
False. That happens on November first
How did the myth of Vampires come to be?
a) people noticed that garlic kept bad people away
b) people were afraid of an infectious disease and didn't know how it spread
c) a man with pale skin and sharp teeth terrorized the town
b) physicians couldn't explain infectious diseases (Tuberculosis), so they imagined it was spread by those who died coming back to prey on the living.
Kids can sell their candies back to dentists, and then the dentists send the candy to...
a) Deployed soldiers
b) Homeless shelters
c) African children
a) they send packages to soldiers who are deployed overseas
Finish this spell:
Double double, toil and....
trouble!
Unscramble this word:
BINLOG
(hint: it's an ugly, short, green creature... usually dangerous to humans!)
Goblin
Where is Transylvania located?
a) Ireland
b) China
c) Romania
c) Romania, (which is a country near Hungary)