Halloween
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100

This is the day we celebrate Halloween.

What is October 31st?

100

This is where India Opal Buloni first found the scruffy dog she decides to name Winn-Dixie.

Where is in the produce section of a Winn-Dixie grocery store?

100

This big star sits right at the center of our solar system, providing warmth and light to all the planets.

What is the sun?

100

This is Michigan's state capital.

What is Lansing?

100

This was originally called 'Chicken Feed' when it was created in the 1880s.

What is candy corn?

200

This ranks as America's favorite Halloween candy.

What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

200

In Holes, this is the unique thing about the main character's name, Stanley Yelnats.

What is a palindrome, meaning it is spelled exactly the same way forward and backward?

200

This thick layer of fat helps polar bears, whales, and penguins stay warm in freezing Arctic temperatures.

What is blubber?

200

This is Michigan's state flower.

What is the apple blossom?

200

This costume was the most popular and searched Halloween costume of 2025.

Who is Rumi from the Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters?

300

This was the first Halloween costume in history.

What is a ghost?

300

in Holes, this is the crime that Stanley is wrongly convicted and sent to Camp Green Lake.

What is he is convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers belonging to famous baseball player Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston?

300

This is the scientific process that happens when liquid water warms up and turns into an invisible gas.

What is evaporation?

300

This is the most traveled to vacation place in Michigan.

What is Mackinaw, Mackinaw Island, or Mackinaw Bridge?

300

A pumpkin is technically classified as this (part of the gourd family).

What is a fruit?

400

The phrase "trick or treat" first appeared in print in this year in Blackie, Alberta, Canada

What is 1927?

400

In Because of Winn-Dixie, the setting of the story is in this state.

What is Florida?

400

This invisible force keeps your feet on the ground and pulls a dropped apple straight down from a tree.

What is gravity?

400

Detroit became the world capital of the automobile industry thanks to this famous pioneer/inventor.

Who is Henry Ford?

400

This Midwestern state produces more pumpkins than any other U.S. state.

What is Illinois?

500

This is what a group of witches are called.

What is a coven?

500

This is what Hagrid buys Harry Potter for his 11th birthday present.

What is Hedwig the snowy owl?

500

This is the special word for the complete, major change in body shape that a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly.

What is metamorphosis?

500

Michigan touches 4 of the 5 Great Lakes.  Name the 4 lakes.

What is Lake Michigan, Superior, Huron, and Erie?

500

Before pumpkins became popular, people carved these into jack-o'-lanterns.

What are turnips, beets, and potatoes?