CANDY
ORIGIN OF MONSTERS
MOVIES
TRADITIONS
LORE
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SINCE THE COMMERCIAL AIRED IN 1968, OVER 20,000 KIDS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE SENT A LETTER ASKING HOW MANY LICKS IT TAKES TO GET TO THE CENTER OF THIS CANDY

WHAT IS A TOOTSIE POP

100

FIRST INTRODUCED IN AN 1818 NOVEL WRITTEN BY MARY SHELLY, THIS MONSTER WAS NAMED AFTER THE MAD SCIENTIST WHO CREATED HIM

WHO IS FRANKENSTEIN

100

THIS IS THE VILLAIN/MONSTER IN THE HALLOWEEN MOVIES FRANCHISE

WHO IS MICHAEL MYERS

100

ALTHOUGH AROUND SINCE MEDIEVAL TIMES, THIS HALLOWEEN TRADITION BEGAN IN AMERICA IN THE 1930S IN THE HOPES THAT IT WOULD PREVENT YOUNG PEOPLE FROM PULLING PRANKS ON THE NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN

WHAT IS TRICK OR TREATING

100

BEGINNING IN EUROPE DRESSED UP IN THESE TO REPEL EVIL SPIRITS THAT WERE SAID TO COME OUT ON WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS HALLOWEEN NIGHT

WHAT ARE COSTUMES

200

THIS CANDY WAS VOTED THE MOST POPULAR CANDY BY A WHOPPING 84% OF US STATES. THE ONLY OTHER VOTED CANDY WAS MnM's (REGULAR AND PEANUT)

REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

200
DATING BACK TO THE 17TH CENTURY, THESE UNDEAD OR REANIMATED CORPSE MONSTERS THAT FEED ON HUMAN FLESH ARE SAID TO BE A RESULT OF VOODOO.

WHAT ARE ZOMBIES

200

THIS MAN IS THE MAIN MONSTER/VILLAIN IN THE HALLOWEEN MOVIE "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET"

WHO IS FREDDY KRUGER

200

ORIGINATING IN IRELAND, THESE WERE ORIGINALLY CARVED INTO TURNIPS, NOT PUMPKINS

WHAT ARE JACK O LANTERNS

200

IN MEDIEVAL TIMES, IT WAS BELIEVED THAT WITCHES, DEVILS, DEMONS, AND OTHER EVIL ENTITIES DISGUISED THEMSELVES AS THIS ANIMAL, HENCE THE BELIEF THAT THEY BRING BAD LUCK... BE SPECIFIC

WHAT ARE BLACK CATS

300

AROUND SINCE THE 1880S, THIS CANDY WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED "CHICKEN FEED"

WHAT IS CANDY CORN

300

FIRST APPEARING IN BRAM STOKER'S 1897 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL, THIS MONSTER IS LOOSELY BASED ON VLAD THE IMPALER OF ROMANIA (FORMERLY TRANSYLVANNIA)

WHO IS DRACULA

300

WINIFRED, MARY, AND SARAH ARE THE NAMES OF THE THREE WITCHES IN THIS 1993 HALLOWEEN MOVIE

WHAT IS HOCUS POCUS

300

IT IS BELIEVED THAT THESE WINGED CREATURES ARE HARBINGERS OF DEATH. THEY BECAME SYNONIMOUS WITH HALLOWEEN BECAUSE THEY WERE OFTEN DRAWN TO THE LARGE BONFIRES LIT ON HALLOWEEN. IT IS ALSO SAID THAT IF ONE FLIES DIRECTLY INTO YOUR HOME ON HALLOWEEN, YOUR HOUSE IS HAUNTED.

WHAT ARE BATS

300

BEFORE ADOPTING THE NAME HALLOWEEN, THE HOLDIAY HELD THIS NAME

WHAT IS ALL HALLOWS EVE

400

IN A SURVERY OF OVER 15,000 PEOPLE, THIS CANDY HAS BEEN VOTED THE 'WORST CANDY IN AMERICA" FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

WHAT ARE CIRCUS PEANUTS

400

INTRODUCED IN 1996, THIS MAIN MONSTER IN THE "SCREAM" MOVIE FRANCHISE HAS BEEN A HALLOWEEN COSTUME STAPLE FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS

WHO IS GHOSTFACE

400

MADE OF PURE GREEN ECTOPLASM, THIS IS THE NAME OF THE ICONIC LARGE GHOST FIRST ENCOUNTERED BY THE CHARACTER RAY IN "GHOSTBUSTERS"

WHAT IS SLIMER

400

IN GERMANY, FAMILIES HIDE THESE AROUND THE HOUSE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT TO PREVENT RETURNING SPIRITS FROM INJURING THEMSELVES OR OTHERS

WHAT ARE SHARP OBJECTS

400

THE HALLOWEEN COLORS ARE ORANGE AND BLACK. ORANGE STANDS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE HARVEST SEASON, AND BLACK SIGNIFIES THE DEATH OF THIS

WHAT IS SUMMER

500

JAPAN HAS OVER 350 VARIATIONS OF THIS CHOCOLATE CANDY, INCLUDING WASABI AND CHILI FLAVORS.

WHAT ARE KIT KAT BARS

500

THIS EERIE FIGURE IS CONSIDERED DEATH PERSONIFIED

WHO IS THE GRIM REAPER

500
THE MAYOR IN "THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS" USES THIS AS A BOWTIE 

WHAT IS A SPIDER

500

ORIGINATING IN ENGLAND, THE NIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN, WHERE PRE-HALLOWEEN HIJINKS AND PRANKS OCCUR WAS GIVEN ONE OF THESE TWO NAMES 

WHAT IS MISCHIEF NIGHT OR DEVIL'S NIGHT

500

SOME SUPERSTITIONS SAY THAT IF YOU WEAR YOUR CLOTHES INSIDE OUT AND WALK BACKWARDS ON HALLOWEEN, ONE OF THESE WILL APPEAR IN FRONT OF YOU AT MIDNIGHT.

WHAT IS A WITCH

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