Candy 101
Chicken Feed is the former name of this famous (and often hated!) Halloween candy.
Candy Corn
Charlie Brown receives this instead of candy when trick-or-treating in It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.
What is a rock.
This Transylvanian count is famous for turning into a bat and avoiding garlic.
Who is Count Dracula?
Before pumpkins became the standard, people in Ireland and Scotland carved jack-o'-lanterns out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips?
This ancient Celtic festival is said to be the basis for modern-day Halloween.
What is Samhain? (pronounced sow-in)
According to its advert, this candy bar is “fluffy, not stuffy”.
What is 3 Musketeers?
This director famously directed The Birds in 1963.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
This scientist created a monster from reanimated body parts.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This city in Massachusetts is famous for its 1692 witch trials and is a massive tourist destination every October.
What is Salem?
This decade the song “Monster Mash” reached #1 on the billboard charts.
What is the 1960s?
In the movie "E.T.," this was the candy that Elliot used to find E.T.
What are Reese's Pieces?
Jack Nicholson utters the immortal line, "Heeeeeere's Johnny" in this film.
What is The Shining?
According to folklore, this shape-shifting monster can only be killed by a silver bullet.
What is a werewolf?
This traditional Mexican holiday, celebrated right after Halloween, honors deceased loved ones with altars and sugar skulls.
What is Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead?
The quote “Double, double toil and trouble” comes from this William Shakespeare play.
What is Macbeth?
This candy was used as part of the rations for World War II soldiers.
What is a Tootsie Roll?
In 1910, less than a century after this novel by Mary Shelley was published, it had its first film adaptation.
What is Frankenstein?
The Headless Horseman originated from this short story written by Washington Irving in 1820.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Legend has it if you sprinkle this on your doorstep to keep evil spirts out of your house on Halloween night.
What is salt?
Transylvania located in this country.
What is Romania?
These were created and named after the candy mentioned in the book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl.
What are Everlasting Gobstoppers?
Author Ira Levin claimed credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow as the lead in this 1968 adaptation of his horror novel.
What is Rosemary's Baby?
A group of witches is called this.
A coven.
This US first lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween.
Mamie Eisenhower
This legendary horror actor starred in the 1930s movies “The Mummy,” “Frankenstein” and “The Bride of Frankenstein”
Who is Boris Karloff?