When was "Monster Mash" released?
A. 1982
B. 1951
C. 1950
D. 1962
1962
What’s the most popular kids' Halloween candy?
A.Kit Kat
B.Twix
C.Recees peanut butter Cup
D.Tootsie Pop
C.Recees peanut butter Cup
What is the most popular Halloween costume for pets?
A. Pumpkin
B. Banana
C. Ghost
D. Skeleton
A. Pumpkin
On average, what percentage of Americans carve a pumpkin for Halloween?
A.45%
B. 25%
C. 35%
D. 5%
Prior to pumpkins, which root vegetable did the Irish and Scottish carve on Halloween?
A. Pumpkin
B. Cabbage
C. Turnips
D. Corn
C.Turnips
Where is the world's longest haunted house?
A. Ohio
B. Minnesota
C. Kansas
D. California
The Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, Ohio, is a whopping 3,564 feet long and located 80 feet underground!
How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?
A. 10 Million
B. 25 Million
C. 35 Million
D. 50 Million
A whopping 35 million pounds of candy corn is made every year—amounting to about 9 billion pieces.
Only one holiday surpasses Halloween in annual consumer sales. What is it?
A. Easter
B. Thanksgiving
C. Valentines Day
D. Christmas
Christmas
What was the original title for Disney's Hocus Pocus?
A. Two witches
B. Halloween House
C. Halloween Fun
D. Haunted Horrors
Hocus Pocus was initially called Halloween House—and it was more horror than comedy.
What is the best halloween costume you have ever seen?
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Are pumpkins technically a fruit or vegetable?
A fruit
Who was the first First Lady to decorate the White House for Halloween?
A. Mamie Eisenhower
B. Abigal Adams
C. Elizabeth Monroe
D. Elizabeth Truman
Mamie Eisenhower in 1958.
What vegetable is part of a tradition on the night before Halloween?
A. Pumpkin
B. Cabbage
C. Carrot
D. Corn
Cabbage is often used in pranks on Mischief Night, sometimes referred to as Cabbage Night. People would sometimes leave stinky, rotten cabbage near neighbors' doors.
Why are the Halloween colors orange and black?
A. Black Cats and Leaves
B. Bats and Corn
C. Pumpkins and Night
D. Bats and Pumpkins
While there are competing theories, it’s generally thought that orange is for pumpkins and harvest, and black represents night, death or darkness.
When was Trick or Treat for UNICEF founded?
A. 1982
B. 1951
C. 1950
D. 1965
C. 1950
What was candy corn originally called?
A. Chicken Feed
B. Striped Triangles
C. Sweet stripes
D. Rooster Feed
A. Chicken Feed
When is Halloween thought to have originated?
A. 4000 B.C.
B. 1700 A.D
C. 200 B.C.
D. 1600 A.D.
A. 4000 B.C.
How many pounds of fresh pumpkins did the U.S. produce in 2021?
A. 1.2 Million
B. 2.5 Million
C. 3.5 Million
D. 5 Million
A. 1.2 Million
Why are black cats associated with Halloween (and bad luck)?
A. They are associated with Witchcraft
B. It started randomly
C. Because they look like the night
D. It's their eyes
The Puritans associated black cats with witchcraft, leading to the onyx-colored felines' association with Halloween.
In many other cultures, black cats are actually signs of good luck and are revered!
What is Des Moines, Iowa's pre-Halloween festivity called?
A. Iowa Fun
B. Beggars Night
C. Silent Night
D. The night before
In Des Moines, the night before Halloween is called Beggar's Night, in which kids go door-to-door telling jokes, reciting poems or dancing in exchange for sweets.
What's the most popular Halloween costume in the U.S., according to Google?
A. Pumpkin
B. Witch
C. Ghost
D. Skeleton
B. Witch
Where was “Hocus Pocus” filmed?
A. Mississippi
B. Minnesota
C. Massachusetts.
D. Maryland
Salem, Massachusetts.
Why did people start dressing up in Halloween costumes?
A. To repel spirits
B. For fun
C. Religious reasons
D. For a contest
Many Europeans, including the Celtics, dressed in costumes to repel spirits that they believed came back to Earth on what we now know as Halloween.
Where does “Double, double toil and trouble” come from?
MacBeth
What famous magician died on Halloween?
Harry Houdini