FACTS
True or False: The day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) and Halloween are the same holiday.
[false]
Symbolically, Halloween marked the beginning of _____________.
[Winter (the dying season)]
This animal, often viewed as ‘Bad-Luck’ in the U.S., is often associated with the holiday Halloween.
[black cat]
This Halloween candy was originally referred to as “chicken feed”.
[candy corn]
What color is blood when it is inside your body?
[dark red/red]
Samhain (SAH-win) is based on which of the following two holidays: The Day of the Dead ; Halloween.
[Halloween]
Halloween is based on a holiday that originated how many years ago?
[2000 years ago]
This author, known for her terrifying fiction novel “Frankenstein”, is rumored to have walked around with her husband’s heart in a silk bag.
[Mary Shelley]
This 1984 song returned to the Billboard’s “hot 100” in October of 2021.
[Thriller, Michael Jackson]
What are the only flying mammals?
[bats]
The tradition of “jack-o’-lantern carving” can be traced back Ireland and Scotland, with their intent being to____________.
[ward off evil spirits]
Between 0-100 A.D., the festivals of Feralia and Pomona were added by the Romans to the Celtic holiday ___________.
[Samhain]
Considered one of America’s first ghost stories, ____________, written by Washington Irving is a 1820’s tale of a headless horseman who terrorizes a local town and the main character, Ichabod Crane
[The Legend of Sleepy Hallow]
A gathering of witches is called a ________.
[coven]
What is the name of the Supermassive Red Giant star in the constellation Orion?
[Betelgeuse]
What was the original intended purpose of humans dressing up on Halloween?
[To confuse the wandering spirits]
Between 600-700 A.D., Pope Boniface IV established _______________, a religious holiday celebrated on November 1st, thus making Halloween a holy, (or hallowed), eve
[All-Saint's Day]
During the 19th century, the spread of a disease, ____________ (at the time called ‘consumption’), killed many in New England.
Before physicians were able to explain how infectious diseases were spread, hopeless villagers believed that some of those who perished from consumption preyed upon their living family members.
[tuberculosis]
How long did it take to make the movie “A Nightmare Before Christmas"?
[3 years]
Why do jeans have tiny pockets inside their pockets?
[Levi’s created them for cowboy pocket watches]
Originally, instead of children dressing up and asking for candy, Beggars, (the poor, sick, and elderly), would go door to door and _______________.
[pray for the dead in return for food]
Halloween became a wide-spread, common holiday, around the year/century ___________.
[1800-1900 (29th century)]
This Tale goes, “After making a deal with the devil, A man named ______________ was cursed to eternally roam the earth, only being able to light coal to interact with his world and place it by gourds and turnips.”
[Stingy Jack]
What year did Charles M. Schulz's classic Halloween TV special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"?
[1966]
Name a country other than the United States that does not use the Metric system.
[Myanmar/Liberia]