Fall Holidays
This 2-day holiday is celebrated in Mexican and Latin American countries.
What is the Day of the Dead or Dia De Los Muertos?
This specifically Halloween food was invented 1880s
What is candy corn?
What Martin Luther nail to the church door.
What are the 95 thesis?
A Disney movie about Dia De Los Muertos
What is Coco?
Famous American short story about a headless horseman written by Washington Irving.
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
We get the word Halloween from this Catholic name.
What is All Hallows' Eve
This taste of the rainbow wasn't invented until 1974
What are skittles?
This was Martin Luther's main complaint with the Catholic church.
What are indulgences?
A movie that always leaves me wondering if is about Halloween or Christmas.
What is "The Nightmare Before Christmas"?
What is "The Witches"
Catholic days celebrated on Nov 1 and 2
What All Saints Day & All Souls' Day?
Treats given out to children on Halloween before candy became a popular alternative.
What are coins, nuts, & fruit?
Martin Luther chose Oct 31 to post his 95 theses because many people be coming to church tomorrow in honor of this holiday.
What is All Saints' Day?
The character that always believes in the "Great Pumpkin"
Who is Linus?
The author of these famous horror short stories - "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado"
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
The ancient Celtic holiday celebrating the end of harvest and their new year.
What is Samhain (saa win)?
A phenomenon in the 1970s and 80s that caused store bought candy to become the main thing handed out at Halloween.
What was Satanic Panic?
The council where Martin Luther was declared a heretic.
What was the Diet of Worms?
The movie Hocus Pocus is set in this famous "witchy" town.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
A famous play from the 1950s based on the Salem Witch Trials
This is a British holiday celebrating the failure of a plot to blow up parliament and King James I.
What is Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night?
This is the #1 candy given out on Halloween.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
Three of the 5 "Solas" that summarize the core beliefs of the Protestant Reformation.
What are:
Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone)
Sola Fide (Faith Alone)
Sola Gratia (Grace Alone)
Solus Christus (Christ Alone)
Soli Deo Gloria (To the glory of God alone)
The first in a series of animated movies about Dracula and his daughter Mavis
What is Hotel Transylvania?
Shakespeare play that coined the famous line, "Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
What is Macbeth?