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100
This is the average amount of candy sales in the U.S. for Halloween each year.
What is $2 billion?
100
Mummies originated in this country.
What is Egypt?
100
This animal has 8 eyes.
What is a spider?
100
This iconic music video by The King of Pop features Halloween creatures and very famous dance moves.
What is "Thriller"? Some of the sound effects in this song include thunder, wind, howling, creaking and even feet walking on wooden planks. The music video, which is called "Michael Jackson's Thriller" (1983), lasts fourteen minutes!
100
Witches are known to fly around on this cleansing utensil.
What is a broom?
200
Traditionally, at Halloween parties people will "bob" their head into water to grab this treat.
What is an apple?
200
This country celebrates "The Day of the Dead."
What is Mexico?
200
This animal was believed to protect witches' powers from negative forces.
What are black cats?
200
This board game can supposedly be used to communicate with the spirits of dead people.
What is the Ouija board?
200
Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday after this one.
What is Christmas?
300
The heaviest pumpkin ever recorded weighed about this many pounds (answer correct within 100 pounds).
What is 1,446 pounds?
300
This ancient group are responsible for the origin of Halloween over 2000 years ago.
Who are the Celts?
300
In England, white cats are believed to be _____ luck.
What is bad (luck)?
300
The original purpose of this Halloween object was to scare off evil spirits.
What is the jack-o-lantern.
300
This is why people would wear masks on Halloween.
What is keeping the dead from recognizing the living?
400
The first jack-o-lantern was not carved from a pumpkin, but from this vegetable instead.
What is a turnip?
400
This was the original trick in "trick or treat.”
What is singing a song to the person giving you the candy?
400
Vampire bats can be found on this continent.
What is South America?
400
This famous magician died on Halloween in 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
400
This is what the colour orange represents on Halloween.
What is the harvest?
500
It takes a pumpkin this long to grow.
What is 90-120 days (3-4 months)?
500
This is the original name of the holiday the Celts created that is now known as Halloween.
What is Samhain? (They called it The Feast of the Dead, when those who had died came back to visit this world. It was the line between the Summer and the Winter months, when most things had been harvested.)
500
According to legend, this is how you can kill a vampire.
What is cremating it? What is pounding a stake through its heart? What is burying it at a crossroads? (Different countries have different ideas of how to destroy them.)
500
The meaning of the word "hallow" in relation to this holiday.
What is "Saint"? (Hallow means saint. The Catholic holiday of All Saints Day is on the last day of October and has mixed with other European holidays such as the coming of winter, the harvest season and the celebration of the dead to become the holiday that we know today.)
500
This is the name for the day after Halloween.
What is All Saints' Day?