Halloween Traditions
The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike's better half, hung owls and goblins
Who is Mamie Eisenhower?
In this Shakespeare play, Hecate appears as Queen of the Witches
What is Macbeth?
What would Halloween be without this lovely song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash"
What is Monster Mash?
Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele
What is Get Out?
This is the name of the full moon closest to the Fall Equinox?
What is Harvest Moon?
A Celtic tradition of using hollowed out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger halloween gourds
What are jack-o-laterns?
This Novel by Gregory Maguire about the green-skinned Elphaba became a gravity-defying musical
What is Wicked?
Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
What is Gaelic?
In 1984 a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this, for the first time
What is Elm Street?
This popular blend of spices, often used in baking and seasonal drinks, includes cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves
What is pumpkin spice?
This no-hands halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona
What is bobbing for apples?
The 2 female founders of Hogwarts are Helga Hufflepuff & this witch
Who is Rowena Ravenclaw?
In the original 1978 "Halloween" a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character
Who is Micheal Myers?
This director is known for films like "Pyscho" and "The Birds," both classics of psychological horror
Known for its brilliant red and orange foliage, this type of tree is often associated with the New England landscape in autumn
What is the maple tree?
It's said these two colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest
What are orange and black?
What is a wand?
In a forerunner to this Halloween statement, kids would ask for food in exchange for saying prayers for the dead
What is trick or treat?
This black and white horror film from 1931 is one of the earliest movies to feature a vampire?
What is Dracula?
In 1621, this colony held a three-day feast to celebrate the harvest, often regarded as the first Thanksgiving in America
What is the Plymouth colony?
This 20th century performer's museum in Scranton, Penn. features an online seance every Halloween
Who is Houdini?
In Salvic folklore, this witch has a house on chicken legs and flies around in a mortar, using a pestle to steer
Who is Baba Yaga?
Legend says that Death Awakens the dead with a fiddle on Halloween & invites the skeletons to this French named dance of death
What is Dance Macabre?
This famous hotel in the movie "The Shining" is said to drive its caretaker into madness
What is the Overlook Hotel?
In Greek Mythology, this goddess of the harvest and agriculture is associated with the season and is the mother of Persephone, who spends part of a year in the Underworld
Who is Demeter?