History
Halloween is thought to have originated around this time
What is 4000 B.C.E.?
The one holiday that Americans spend more for than Halloween
What is Christmas?
The colors of candy corn
What are white, yellow, and orange?
The size of the largest pumpkin pie ever made in the U.S.
What is over 5 ft wide and 1,678 kg?
The most popular fruit of Halloween
What are pumpkins?
Halloween came to the U.S. in this era/decade
What is the 1840's? (when Irish immigrants flooded the country during the potato famine)
The most popular Halloween costume for kids
The average amount of candy given to each trick-or-treater
What are 2 pieces of candy?
Where celebrating the Day of the Dead started
What is Mexico?
The country in which the region of Transylvania lies
These 2 countries popularized costumes for trick-or-treating
What are Scotland and Ireland?
What is $2.6B?
The amount of calories in the average Trick-or-Treat bag
What are 11,000 calories?
3 activities done to celebrate Halloween in the U.S.
- creating Jack-o-lanterns
- trick-or-treating
- watching scary movies
- decorating their yards and houses
- dressing up in costumes
- going on hayrides and to corn mazes
- consuming pumpkin products and apple cider
The meaning of seeing a spider on Halloween
What is the spirit of a loved one who watches over the person who found the spider?
The amount of people hung during the Salem witch trials
Some bad sides of Halloween
- vandalism (smashing pumpkins, teepeeing)
- alcohol + costumes lands many in the hospital with silly injuries
- bad superstitions (beating/killing of black cats)
The most popular Halloween candy in America
What are Skittles?
The American state where dressing up as clergymen (priest or nun) is illegal
What is Alabama?
According to superstition, the ability that people born on Halloween have
What is the ability to see and talk to spirits?
Halloween's original name
What is Samhain?
The reason for celebrating Dia de los Muertos
What is remembering the family members who have passed and reuniting the living and the dead?
What is having the porch lights turned on?
At least 1 festivity of Dia de los Muertos
- building ofrendas containing photos of and memorabilia from the departed family members
- writing "Calaveras," short, humorous, and sarcastic poems that poke fun at the living
- making sugar skulls
- offering food and drink to the departed
"Double, double, toil, and trouble..."
What is "fire burn and cauldron bubble?"
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Who is Shakespeare?