POTPOURRI
MUSIC & MOVIES
TRICKS
TREATS
COSTUMES
100
THESE ARE THE TRADITIONAL COLORS OF HALLOWEEN.
WHAT ARE BLACK AND ORANGE?
100
A POPULAR CAT NAME, BINX, IS NAMED AFTER A CHARACTER FROM THIS POPULAR HALLOWEEN MOVIE.
WHAT IS HOCUS POCUS?
100
IN A FORERUNNER TO THIS HALLOWEEN STATEMENT, KIDS WOULD ASK FOR FOOD IN EXCHANGE FOR SAYING PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD.
WHAT IS TRICK OR TREAT?
100
THIS POLARIZING YELLOW, ORANGE, AND WHITE CANDY WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED "CHICKEN FEED."
WHAT IS CANDY CORN?
100
This was the most popular Halloween costume for pets in 2015.
Pumpkin
200
HALLOWEEN IS SECOND ONLY TO THIS HOLIDAY IN TERMS OF DOLLARS SPENT COMMERCIALLY.
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?
200
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DESCRIBED THE VIDEO FOR THIS POPULAR HALLOWEEN SONG AS "THE MOST FAMOUS MUSIC VIDEO OF All TIME."
WHAT IS MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER?
200
AS DEPICTED IN NUMEROUS HALLOWEEN MOVIES AND TV SHOWS, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR HALLOWEEN "TRICKS" IS TO THROW THIS ON SOMEONE'S TREES IF THEY DON'T GIVE YOU A "TREAT."
WHAT IS TOILET PAPER?
200
IT'S TRADITIONAL TO BOB FOR THESE AT HALLOWEEN PARTIES.
WHAT ARE APPLES?
200
DRACULA IS A NICKNAME FOR WHICH BRUTAL ROMANIAN RULER?
WHO IS VLAD III, OR VLAD THE IMPALER?
300
This popular "trick" item is banned in California on Halloween.
What is Silly String?
300
THIS HALLOWEEN SONG FROM BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT "WAS A GRAVEYARD SMASH."
WHAT IS MONSTER MASH?
300
DESPITE THE OLD WIVES TALES, HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED OR KILLED FROM POISONOUS CANDY GIVEN TO THEM BY STRANGERS ON HALLOWEEN?
WHAT IS ZERO?
300
WHAT A HOOT. A LICKING MACHINE RESOLVED THAT IT TAKES 364 LICKS TO GET TO THE CENTER OF THIS CANDY.
WHAT IS A TOOTSIE POP?
300
THE LYCANTHROPE IS MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THIS.
WHAT IS A WEREWOLF OR WOLF-MAN.
400
The first written account of children using the phrase “trick or treat” occurred in this country.
What is Canada?
400
THE SONG "THIS IS HALLOWEEN," WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN 1993 FOR THE MOVIE THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS WAS COVERED BY THIS SPOOKY ARTIST FOR A SPECIAL RELEASE OF THE FILM'S SOUNDTRACK IN 2006.
WHO IS MARILYN MANSON?
400
THIS FAMOUS MAGICIAN DIED ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN 1926, ALTHOUGH MANY INITIALLY THOUGHT HIS DEATH WAS A HOAX.
WHO IS HARRY HOUDINI?
400
THIS IS THE MOST POPULAR HALLOWEEN CANDY, WITH ANNUAL SALES OF ROUGHLY $510 MILLION.
WHAT ARE REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUPS?
400
SHE WROTE THE NOVEL FRANKENSTEIN.
WHO IS MARY SHELLEY?
500
JACK-O-LANTERNS WERE ORIGINALLY MADE OUT OF THIS ROOT VEGETABLE.
WHAT ARE TURNIPS?
500
WHICH WEST COAST RAPPER VOICES THIS CHARACTER IN THE 2019 ANIMATED ADDAMS FAMILY MOVIE?
WHO IS SNOOP DOGG?
500
TRICK-OR-TREATING HAS BEEN POPULAR IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA SINCE THE 1930s, BUT WAS STALLED FOR SEVERAL YEARS DUE TO A SUGAR SHORTAGE DURING THIS.
WHAT WAS WORLD WAR II (1940s)?
500
THIS WAS THE FIRST WRAPPED PENNY CANDY IN AMERICA.
WHAT IS A TOOTSIE ROLL?
500
What two countries popularized Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating?
What are Scotland and Ireland?