Tricks, Treats, & Traditions
What date is Halloween celebrated every year?
October 31st
What creature sleeps in a coffin during the day?
Who is The Pumpkin King?
Jack Skellington
Botanically speaking, is a pumpkin a vegetable or a fruit?
Fruit
What is Anoka's spooky-related nickname?
The Halloween Capital of the World
What do you called a pumpkin which has a face carved in it?
A jack-o-lantern
What creature transforms under a full moon?
Werewolf
Winifred, Mary, and Sarah are the three witch sisters in which movie series?
Hocus Pocus
What scientific animal group does a spider belong to?
Arachnid
In what year did Anoka start it's annual Halloween celebrations?
1920
Before pumpkins became the usual choice, what would people in Ireland and Scotland commonly carve into jack-o-lanters?
Turnips
What creepy monster originates in Egypt?
Mummy
In It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, what character spends Halloween waiting in a pumpkin patch?
Linus
How do bats navigate using sound?
Echolocation
The original Anoka Halloween celebration was created largely to stop young people from doing what?
Vandalism/pranks
Halloween comes from the original "All Hallow's Eve". What does the word "hallow" refer to?
A saint
Is Frankenstein the name of a monster?
No, it is the name of the scientist who makes the monster, Victor Frankenstein.
In The Addams Family, which family member is literally just a disembodied hand?
Thing
Carbon dioxide
One of the oldest Anoka Halloween traditions, what is the name of the parade in which only elementary school students participate?
What is the name of the ancient Celtic festival that modern Halloween is based upon?
Samhain (pronounced SOW-in)
In Irish folklore, what monster is famous for terrifying shrieks that warn of approaching death?
Banshee
In Ghostbusters, what is the name of famous car the team drives?
Ecto-1
What is the "glowing" effect some things give under a blacklight called?
Fluorescence
In 1937, 12-year-old Harold Blair carried a proclamation naming Anoka the Halloween Capital of the World to which US city?
Washington DC (while the records of what actual transpired were destroyed in a fire, legend says that congress immediately granted the title!)