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100
What is another name for Halloween?
All Hallows Eve
100
What popular cartoon ghost has appeared in dozens of films, TV series and comic books?
Casper the Friendly Ghost
100
Which Disney Land ride once used real live skeletons as props?
Pirates of the Carribean
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What American serial killer, nicknamed the Milwaukee Cannibal, killed and dismembered 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991?
Jeffrey Dahmer
100
Is a Pumpkin scientifically classified as a fruit or vegetable?
Fruit - A pumpkin is, in fact, a fruit. According to expert Joe Masabni, Ph. D., Texas A&M Agri Life Extension Service vegetable specialist in Dallas, scientifically speaking, a pumpkin is a fruit simply because anything that starts from a flower is botanically a fruit.
200
Which Halloween candy was originally referred to as chicken feed?
Candy Corn
200
What movie serial killer is said to be immortalized with a statue at the bottom of a lake?
Jason Voorhees
200
How many people were hung during the Salem Witch Trials?
Hint: Less than 20
Nineteen - 19 people were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials, which took place in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts: 14 women and 5 men.
200
What serial killer was never caught after a string of California murders in the 20th century? This killer self-identified with a "cross circle" symbol.
The Zodiac Killer
200
What flying insect is susceptive to and prefers addictive substances like nicotine or coffee in their nectar?
Bees - A study, carried out by researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education concluded that bees have shown a tendency to prefer a nectar with small amounts of nicotine and caffeine over a nectar that does not comprise these substances at all. Some floral nectar produces small amounts of nicotine in their nectar. Scientist believe this is an evolutionary trait flowers have developed to entice bees to them.
300
Which U.S. city hosts the world’s largest Halloween parade?
New York City, for the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
300
What was the original title of the movie Halloween?
The Babysitter Murders
300
What is the record for the longest living HEADLESS chicken?
Hint: It is not days, try months. Less than 2 years.
1 1/2 years or 18 Months!!!!!
300
Infamous serial killer and body-snatcher Ed Gein was the inspiration for horror character Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer. Which movie franchise made Leatherface a household name among horror movie buffs?
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
300
What is the last sense that you lose when you die?
Your hearing - Studies show that patients may still be able to hear when in an unresponsive state.
400
What vegetable was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween?
Cabbage - Halloween was once known as “Cabbage Night” due to a game of Scottish origin played on this holiday, in which women used the stem of this vegetable to predict what their future husbands would look like.
400
How many Halloween movies has Jamie Lee Curtis appeared in?
Seven Times -
Halloween (1978),
Halloween II (1981),
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998),
Halloween: Resurrection (2002),
Halloween (2018),
Halloween Kills (2021)
Halloween Ends (2022)
(Eight if you include having an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982))
400
In 1888 The heir to what Whiskey Brand purchased a 10-year old girl to feed to cannibals?
Hint: This whiskey brand is sold in Utah state liquor stores.
Jameson Whiskey -
In 1888, James Jameson, the heir to the Jameson whiskey empire, was on an expedition in a trading post in the Belgian colony of Congo, which he had been told was inhabited by cannibals. Jameson was interested in seeing the practice up close.
A Sudanese translator named Assad Farran, who was on the trip, later recalled that Jameson bought a 10-year-old enslaved girl for the sole purpose of watching her be killed and eaten.
400
Nike's famous "Just Do It" slogan was inspired by the final words of a convicted serial killer, Gary Gilmore. What is the Original quote?
Hint: "___ Do It". Missing word is plural.
"Let's Do It" - The founder of the Wieden+Kennedy agency, Dan Wieden, credits the inspiration for his "Just Do It" Nike slogan to a death row inmate Gary Gilmore’s last words: "Let's do it." From 1988 to 1998, Nike increased its share of the North American domestic sport-shoe business from 18% to 43% (from $877 million to $9.2 billion in worldwide sales)
400
What flying insect (apart from the well known insects) will drink blood?
Butterflies - Butterflies are opportunistic feeders and only eat a liquid diet through their straw like mouths and will drink blood if the opportunity presents itself.
500
What is having extreme fear of Halloween called?
Samhainophobia - [ sou-win-uh-foh-bee-uh ]
500
What horror film, released in 2023, had the best box office performance? (Made the most money)
Five Nights at Freddys
500
What minor federal holiday (Not started from a war) started with dynamite?
Hint: You probably/might/maybe have this day off of work
Labor Day - The Haymarket rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day (And a labor day to be on May 1st going against the Governments proposed Labor day on Sept. 1st), the day after the events at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, during which one person was killed and many workers injured. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at the police as they acted to disperse the meeting, and the bomb blast and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; dozens of others were wounded. Sadly the government decided as retribution to stick with September 1st. But the Riot sparked international interest and down the road would spark the start of "May Day" or the International Workers' Day.
500
What high profile serial killer worked for a suicide hotline?
Ted Bundy - In 1971, he took a job at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.
500
What fruit has an enzyme called "bromelain" that when consumed eats you back?!
Possible answers: Pineapple, Banana or Kiwi
Bromelain is an enzyme that eats proteins which is why your mouth can become irritated when eating one of these fruits (mainly pineapple because it allows the acids to eat away at your mouth parts) The enzyme itself is actually used in supplements and treatments to reduce inflammation and other things.