ODD HAPPENINGS!
This is the reason bonfires are lit on Halloween.
To ward off evil spirits.
This is the most popular Halloween candy.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
This is the year Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas.
What is October 12,1492.
This bird is often associated with death.
What is a Raven.
Which famous magicion actually died on Halloween?
Who is Harry Houdini.
What was the first movie to feature a toilet seat on screen in 1960.
What is the movie, "Psycho". Earlier films avoided showing bathrooms.
How many colors of M&M's are there in a normal size bag?
What is six.
The colors are red,yellow,orange,green,blue, and brown. Consumers did not like the original tan color M&M, so in 1995 consumers were asked to vote on a replacement color. Blue Won!
This is what was Columbus searching for on his first voyage?
What is Asia.
This superstition gives you 7 years bad luck.
What is breaking a mirror.
Who was the first First Lady to decorate the White House to celebrate Halloween?
Who is Mamie Eisenhower.
She put op a huge Jack-o-lantern in1958.
This was the first horror movie to be nominated at the Academy Awards in 1974.
What is The Exorcist.
How many pounds of candy corn are produced every year:
A-5,000
B-25,000
C-35 million
35 million pounds.
That is 9 billion pieces of the tricolor wonders to munch on! Candy Corn was originally called "Chicken Feed", because it resembled feed for animals.
This European group is known to have reached the Americas before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings.
What Ghost did British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reportedly see in the White House?
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
Churchill was a guest at the White House. After a long hot bath, Churchill was walking back to his room, naked with a cigar in his mouth, when he saw Lincoln sitting by the fire. Churchill said, "Good evening Mr. President, you seem to have me at a disadvantage". Lincoln just smiled and disappeared.
What were originally used as the first Jack-O-Lanterns?
What are turnips.
Originating in Ireland, they would be hollowed out and have a lump of coal inside, and used as a guide for poor "Jack".Legend has it, he tricked the Devil and wasn't allowed into heaven or hell & he was cursed to wander the earth forever.
Which 3 veggie groups outsell all others in the fall:
1-Potatoes, carrots,onions.
2-Squash,pumpkin,carrots.
3-Potatoes,pumpkins,beets.
2-Squash,Pumpkin,Carrots.
This was the first wrapped penny candy that was sold in America.
What is Tootsie Roll.
It was created in 1907 and it was the first mass produced individually wrapped penny candy in America.
True or False. Columbus believed he had reached Asia on his first voyage.
True.
This is what you sprinkle on your doorstep if you was to keep evil spirits away and out of your house on Halloween night.
What is salt.
A Buddhist tradition has you throw salt over your shoulder that accomplishes the same thing.
What Halloween radio drama caused a mass panic on October 30,1938?
What is "War of the Worlds".
This was a special Halloween episode of the "Mercury Theatre on the Air" show, directed and performed by Orson Wells.
This is where did the "Headless Horseman" originated from?
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
American Author Washington Irving created the character in his 1820 short story. The horseman was the ghost rider of a soldier decapitated in the Revolutionary War.
What popular Halloween candy was named after a horse?
What is Snickers.
What modern holiday has been established as a counterpart to Columbus Day in some U.S. states?
What is "Indigenous Peoples' Day.
These are four legged animals associated with bad luck on Halloween.
What are black cats.
Witches supposedly turned into black cats on Halloween in order to not be detected.
What is "souling" and what do people ask for as they go door to door?
What are Soul-cakes(small cakes that would commemorate the dead).
This was a tradition that began in the 15th century where people would go door to door asking for soul-cakes. This influenced our modern day trick-or-treating.