Halloween Movies
Halloween History
Halloween Music
Halloween Candy
Halloween Potpourri
100
Number of times you have to say Beetlejuice’s name to get him to show up
Three
100
All Saints' Day
November 1st
100
"Who ya gonna call?"
Ghost busters
100
The founder of the Hershey chocolate company
Milton Hershey
100
The heaviest ________ on record weighed in at 2,702 lbs
Pumpkin
200
The first horror movie to be nominated for an Academy Award
The Exorcist (1973)
200
Magician who famously died on October 31, 1926
Harry Houdini
200
"I told the witch doctor I was in love with you. And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do. He told me..."
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
200
2 billion of these are made in the U.S. every day
M&M's
200
The second-most popular Halloween costume, inspired by a super hero
Spiderman
300
The name of the town with the Headless Horseman
Sleepy Hollow
300
Trick or treating became popular during this decade
1950's
300
"They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky"
The Addams Family
300
The first-ever fun-size candy bars
Snickers (& Milky Way)
300
Name of the condition: irrational fear of Halloween
Samhainophobia
400
The daughter of Morticia and Gomez
Wednesday Addams
400
These were historically used to light the way for souls seeking the afterlife
Bonfires
400
Vince Guaraldi wrote and performed the music for this famous Halloween cartoon that is played every year.
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
400
This iconic Halloween candy was originally called chicken feed
Candy corn
400
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
Salem witch trials
500
The single most commercially successful horror movie of all time
It
500
In Celtic festivals, this color represented the fall harvest
Orange
500
He wore an iconic red jacket in the title track music video. It remains the best selling album of all time.
Thriller
500
This is what the two M's stand for in the M&M's logo
Mars and Murrie
500
Transylvania is a region in this modern-day country
Romania
600
The name of the serial killer in the "Halloween" series
Michael Myers
600
U.S. soldiers in the First Marine Division used the phrase as a codename for mortar shells. But the real candy came in handy when the soldiers used them to patch holes in their vehicle's fuel lines.
Tootsie Rolls
600
"I was working in the lab late on night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight"
Monster Mash
600
Milky Way candy bar was created in an attempt to mimic the taste of this
Malted milkshake
600
A group of bats
Colony
700
The word "Candy" comes from the location of the Candia Family in Crete who owns Mars, Inc. Mars, Inc named for symbolizing the Roman God of war. The word Candy is the American translation of this Arabic meaning.
Rock Sugar
700
The first Jack-o-Lanterns were made out of this vegetable
Turnips
700
In this movie Catherine O'Hara (Delia) sang... "day-o... day-o... daylight come and me wanna go home"
Beetlejuice
700
The most popular Halloween candy in America
Skittles
700
The reason vampires can't see their reflection in a mirror
They don't have a soul
-or-
Mirrors used to be made from polished silver
800
This serial killer inspired The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Ed Gein
800
Halloween's origins can be traced back to this country
Ireland
800
"Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see... this our town of Halloween"
This is Halloween (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
800
In an iconic scene in 1982's E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, Elliot entices the alien with these
Reese's Pieces
800
The first name of Dr. Frankenstein
Victor