Song
Candy
Costumes
Monsters
Halloween Lore
200

Which Song is this?

Thriller by Michael Jackson

200

Candy sales spike during this holiday season, making it the highest-grossing holiday for candy sales in the United States.

Halloween

200

This classic Halloween costume is traditionally made with a white sheet and two eye holes.

Ghost

200

This monster originates from Haitian folklore, where sorcerers (bokors) reanimated corpses.

Zombies

200

Halloween's roots are found in this Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half”

Samhain

400

Name the Song

Monster Mash

400

According to various surveys, this candy consistently rank as one of the most popular Halloween candies in the United States.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

400

In terms of Costume sales, this type of costume still constantly tops the sales 

Superheros

400

To become this monster, some folk legends say the methods include on a belt made of skin, drinking water from a paw print, being bitten, cursed, or the seven son. Along with when the body is rubbed with a magic salve.

Werewolf

400

The ancient celts believed that during this time, the Veil between our world and the otherworld was at the thinnest, thus these beings came through

Spirits and fairies (Aos Sí) (Extra points for the Aos Si)

600

Name that song

This is Halloween

600

This Halloween treat, was first created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company with the name “chicken feed.” 

Candy Corn

600

In 2016, there were sightings of people dressed up as this.

Killer Clown

600

 This malevolent, cannibalistic spirit  from Algonquian Indigenous folklore, often described as an emaciated, monstrous being associated with winter, starvation, and insatiable hunger for human flesh.

Wendigo 

600

This Halloween tradition involved people going door to door in costumes or disguises, reciting songs or verses in exchange for food, while impersonating spirits of the dead was believed to offer protection from those same spirits.  

Mumming and Guising 

800

Name the tune

I'm a Hex Girl

800

This candy was created by the German company Trolli in the late 20th century, quickly becoming a popular Halloween candy.

Gummy Worms

800

People often dress up for Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in colorful, symbolic attire, including traditional dresses, suits, and elaborate face paint inspired by

La Calavera Catrina

800

 One method of finding this monster's grave involved leading a virgin boy through a graveyard or church grounds on a virgin stallion—the horse would supposedly balk at the grave in question

Vampire

800

Jack O Lanterns are said to get their name from a drunkard who, after deceiving people throughout his life and even Satan, is doomed to roam the Earth with only a hollowed turnip to light his way.

Stingy Jack

1000

Name that tune

Man with the Hex

1000

In the early 20th century, children often received these types of items before World War II

homemade cookies, popcorn balls, nuts, fruit, or even coins.

1000

According to historical records, the first documented Halloween-style costume celebration in the U.S was here (Hint it is “Halloween Capital of the World.)

Anoka, Minnesota,

1000

This creature from Ireland is featured in Washington Irving’s 1820's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and is described in a different story as having a :such a head no mortal ever saw before. It looked like a large cream cheese hung round with black puddings: no speck of colour enlivened the ashy paleness of the depressed features; the skin lay stretched over the unearthly surface almost like the parchment head of a drum."

Dullahan

1000

About 100 years ago, Halloween in the USA was dangerous: more and more pranks by youth occurred on Halloween night, some of which resulted in injuries as well as economic damage. Thus Halloween was called this?

Mischief Night