Halloween Around the World
This ancient Celtic festival, celebrated in Ireland over 2,000 years ago, is where Halloween comes from.
What is Samhain?
This creature drinks blood and can turn into a bat.
What is a vampire?
This triangle-shaped candy is yellow, orange, and white, and looks like a kernel of a vegetable.
What is candy corn?
This is the most common color of a ripe pumpkin.
What is orange?
This is the only mammal that can truly fly.
What is a bat?
Before pumpkins, people in Ireland carved lanterns out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips?
This monster is wrapped in bandages and comes from ancient Egypt.
What is a mummy?
Kids say these three words when they knock on a door on Halloween night.
What is “Trick or treat”?
Because it has seeds inside, a pumpkin is scientifically a fruit, not a this.
What is a vegetable?
A spider has this many legs.
What is eight?
In the Philippines, families visit cemeteries on November 1 to remember loved ones during this holiday.
What is Undas (All Saints’ Day)?
When the full moon rises, a person turns into this howling animal-monster.
What is a werewolf?
This treat is a whole apple covered in sticky caramel or hard candy, served on a stick.
What is a candy apple (or caramel apple)?
This is the name for a pumpkin carved with a scary or funny face.
What is a jack-o’-lantern?
An adult human skeleton has this many bones.
What is 206?
According to Irish legend, the jack-o’-lantern is named after a tricky man named “Stingy” this.
Who is Jack?
In Filipino folklore, this creature splits in half at the waist and flies around at night.
What is a manananggal?
This candy’s slogan says to “Taste the ___.”
What is rainbow?
Pumpkins grow on this long, twisting plant that creeps along the ground.
What is a vine?
In the classic Charlie Brown special, Linus waits all night for “The Great ___.”
What is the Great Pumpkin?
In Ireland, this fruit bread with a ring baked inside is traditionally eaten on Halloween.
What is barmbrack?
In Irish folklore, the wailing cry of this female spirit warns that someone is about to die.
What is a banshee?
In Canada, kids have collected coins on Halloween for this children’s charity since 1955.
What is UNICEF?
Pumpkins are about 90% this liquid.
What is water?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King of this town.
What is Halloween Town?