AP Style Halloween: T/F
True or False: When referring to Fall, always capitalize seasons.
What is false?
With 11% of Americans donning their furry friends in this costume, it's by far the most popular pet parent pick.
What is a pumpkin costume?
This nocturnal animal is often represented in Halloween mythology and is often connected to death, darkness, and vampires. They also are the only mammals that can fly!
What is a bat?
True or false: a pumpkin is a vegetable.
What is false: it's a fruit!
What are the first names of the Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus?
What is Winifred, Mary, and Sarah
True or False: Jack-o’-lantern is a proper noun that should always be capitalized.
What is false?
This classic Halloween song was released in 1962 and continues to generate an average of $350,000 in annual revenue from the original recording.
What is “Monster Mash”?
True or false: Trick-or-treating has existed ever since medieval times.
What is True?
This Halloween candy is the #1 seller in the US, based on 2023 Instacart/DoorDash orders...
Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, this 2017 adaptation is the highest-grossing horror movie of all time.
What is It?
(Which grossed $702,781,748)
True or False: The term trick-or-treater is always hyphenated.
What is true?
This state produces the most Halloween candy.
What is California?
The first jack-o'-lanterns were carved from this root vegetable.
What is a turnip?
The tradition of bobbing for this fruit originates in Europe, and the game was part of a courting ritual meant to bring young lovers together and help them determine if they were soulmates or not.
What is apple bobbing?
This 1922 silent film was the first vampire movie ever released (and almost wasn't released because Bram Stoker's widow, Florence, sued the German producers for unauthorized use of her husband's novel, Dracula).
What is Nosferatu?
What is true?
This U.S. state produces the most pumpkins.
What is Illinois?
Halloween originated in this European country.
What is Ireland?
It was during this century that Halloween candy became a popular cultural tradition.
What is the 20th century?
How many years after the original release did the much-anticipated Beetlejuice sequel hit theaters?
What is 36 years?
True or False: This commonly used Halloween phrase is missing hyphens: Trick or treat! (Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat!)
What is false?
In 2023, Travis Gienger nabbed the Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin. Guess its weight in pounds (I'll give it to whoever is the closest).
What is 2,749 lb?
"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" is a famous line from which Shakespeare play?
What vegetable was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween?
What is cabbage?
This 1999 moc-doc was filmed primarily in Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County, Maryland on a Hi8 camcorder (by the movie's three leads). Filming concluded on Halloween night, 1997, and the film has since inspired an entire generation of "found footage" horror movies.
What is The Blair Witch Project?