UCCS/Colorado Facts
What do the UC staff think is the spookiest place on campus?
What is Heller Main House?
Halloween was originally known as this by the Catholic church.
What is All Souls Day?
What famous magician died on halloween 1926?
Who is Harry Houdini?
Chicken Feed was the original name of what Halloween treat?
What is candy corn?
What's been the top Halloween candy for 11 years running?
Skiiiiitles!
What spot was used as a US Navy hospital in world war 2, and is presumed haunted because it kept a morgue in the basement?
What is Hotel Colorado?
Jack o' lanterns originated in what country before coming to America?
These famous women in history got poisoned by painting this material onto watches, clocks, shoe buckles, and even their teeth.
Who are the Radium Girls?
How many jack o' lanterns were in the world record largest jack o' lantern display in 2013?
30,581 pumpkins
What candy is named after a family's personal horse?
Snickers
Main Hall was originally used as a what before UCCS became a school?
A tuberculosis ward
How many days long is Dia de Los Muertos actually supposed to be?
What is three?
a dancing plague
Halloween is the second-largest commercial holiday after what?
What is Christmas?
What popular sticky candy helped pave the way for the invention of jell-o?
What are tootsie rolls?
What is the most common type of haunted building in Colorado?
What are hotels?
This Halloween activity was used to predict who would get married first.
What unusual item was widely used in medicine up until the early 1900s?
Mummified Humans
What state produces up to five times more pumpkins than any other state?
What is Illinois?
About how many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
~364
How much did George Dwire purchase the Cragmoor Sanitorium for in the 1920's?
What is 1$?
What was the name of the Celtic tradition that was the origins of Halloween?
What is Samhain?
18-1900's Coffins used to have bells to prevent what from happening?
Being Buried Alive
How quick was the world's fastest pumpkin carving?
16.47 seconds! By Stephen Clarke of New York
According to the American Chemical Society, it would take eating approximately how many fun size candy bars to poison a 180 pound person?
Around 270.