halloween
Apart from sucking human blood, what do vampires and bats have in common?
They only come out at night.
What type of vegetable is disliked by vampires and is used to frighten them away?
Garlic
What color cat is a symbol of Halloween?
black
what date is halloween celebrated?
october 31st
Try and unscramble the following word: BINLOG in order to reveal an ugly, short, green creature that is usually dangerous to humans?
Goblin
What traditional activity takes place on Halloween and involves dressing children up in scary costumes and getting candy from neighbors’ houses?
Trick or Treat
What do witches use to ride in order to get around town?
Broomstick
What’s another name for a carved pumpkin?
A Jack-o-lantern
The Puritans were the first to associate what type of black-colored animals with bad luck?
Cats
What creatures can a vampire turn into?
a bat and a wolf
What was candy corn originally called?
Chicken Feed
How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?
: A whopping 35 million pounds of candy corn is made every year-amounting to about 9 billion pieces.
Where is the world’s longest haunted house?
The Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, Ohio, is a whopping 3,564 feet long and located 80 feet underground!
Where can you find mummies?
A graveyard
Instead of pumpkins, what vegetable did many Irish people carve for early Halloweens?
Turnips
How many colors of M&Ms are there?
There are 25 different colors of M&M’s.
What fruit is carved up on Halloween and placed outside for children to see, and what color is it?
Pumpkin, Orange
What classic comic strip helped boost the popularity of trick or treating in the US?
Peanuts by Charles Schultz depicted the characters trick-or-treating in 1951, well before the activity was widely-known around the country. It’s widely credited with introducing the idea to many families.
The average kid consumes how many calories on Halloween night?
7,000
How much does the world’s biggest pumpkin weigh?
2,624 pounds
What is the number one city for trick or treating in the United States?
San Francisco
How much is spent on pet costumes for Halloween annually?
$300 million
Complete the following chant, normally said by witches: double, double, toil and …?
Trouble
How many licks does it take, on average, to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop?
252
What is the most popular candy bought within the United States, including during the Halloween holidays?
M&M's