History
Day of Halloween
What is October 31st?
The name of the man from the famous movie "Halloween"
Who is Michael Myers?
You wear this on Halloween
What is a costume?
Fun fact: During the original festival people would wear costumes
The location of where Vampires originated
Where is ancient Greece?
PA's most popular candy during Halloween
What are Hershey's mini bars?
Original name of Halloween (after Samhain)
What is All Hallows Eve?
Name this movie: A group of kids team up to stop three witches who return to Salem on Halloween night.
What is 'Hocus Pocus'?
The ancient Celtic tradition is where Halloween orignates
What is Samhain?
This popular Halloween monster and costume originated in the Caribbean island of Haiti
What is a Zombie?
Fun fact: Dates back to 1600s
This candy was invented in the 1880s by George Renniger and was originally called "Chicken Feed"
What is candy corn?
Fun Fact:
Company founder Milton Hershey was a pioneer in the mass production of milk chocolate and turned what previously had been a luxury item for the well-to-do into something affordable for average Americans. In the early 1900s, he also built an entire town, Hershey, Pennsylvania, around his chocolate factory.
In 1917, Harry Burnett Reese moved to Hershey, where he was employed as a dairyman for the chocolate company and later worked at its factory. Inspired by Milton Hershey’s success, Reese, who eventually had 16 children, began making candies in his basement. In the mid-1920s, he built a factory of his own and produced an assortment of candies, including peanut butter cups, which he invented in 1928 and made with Hershey’s chocolate. During World War II, a shortage of ingredients led Reese to pull the plug on his other candies and focus on his most popular product, peanut butter cups. In 1963, Hershey acquired the H.B Reese Candy Company.
The reason that Celts celebrated Samhain
What is the Celtic New Year?
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What is association with human death?
Name this movie: A young boy, who is banned from music, journeys to the other side of death.
What is 'Coco'?
In 800 Pope Gregory III designated November 1st as this day. It incorporated some traditions from Samhain.
What is All Saints Day?
Werewolves were first mentioned in this epic poem dating back to 1400 BCE
What is the epic of Gilgamesh?
Bonus: What culture is responsible for the this poem?
This popular candy was included in World War II soldiers food rations. Used to give American troops "quick energy"
What is a tootsie roll?
Fun Fact: Can hold up to changing weather conditions
The state and region where Halloween originated in America
What is Maryland and the southern colonies?
In Corpse Bride, what does Victor mistakenly place a wedding ring on? It causes him to marry the Corpse Bride
What is a tree branch?
Due to this big event in the 1950s Halloween started to be celebrated in the classroom, community center, and at home for everyone
What is the Baby Boom?
This popular monster got its start by English author Mary Shelley
Who is Frakenstein?
When trick-or-treating started around the 1930s children were given these items
What are cookies, cake, fruit, nuts, coins, and toys?
Fun fact: It wasn’t until the 1970s, though, that wrapped, factory-made candy was viewed as the only acceptable thing to hand out to all the little ghosts and goblins that showed up on people’s doorsteps.
People were encouraged to told to take these 2 things out of Halloween to make it more community/family friendly
What is "frightening" and "grotesque"?
Fun Fact: Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of 1900s.
Name the movie: A journalist and helpers investigate a 1939 mystery in which five people vanished from a hotel elevator on Halloween
What is the Tower of Terror?
The American tradition of trick-or-treat has boomed. Americans today spend how much annually on Halloween
What is $6 billion?
Fun fact: This is the second largest holiday behind Christmas
This type of monster originates in Scottish, Irish, and English folklore
Hint: dates back to the Middle Ages and is a mischievous creature that is usually small and often described as very gross
What is a goblin?
Fun Fact: A pukwudgie is a goblin from the Indigenous Wampanoag culture that can not only shapeshift, but disappear entirely.
The name of the original item received on Halloween or "All Souls Day"
What are soul cakes?
Fun fact: The American Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating probably dates back to the early All Souls’ Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives.