Halloween Trivia #1- Advisory

Question 1

What's the title of the famous cartoon?

Accepted Answer

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Question 2

How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?

Accepted Answer

35 Million

Question 3

Which candy do you like best?

Accepted Answer

Snickers, Reece's Cups, Kit Kat, Sour Patch Kids

Question 4

Only one holiday surpasses Halloween in consumer spending. What is it?

Accepted Answer

Christmas

Question 5

When was Halloween first celebrated in the US?

Accepted Answer

1840's - Irish immigrants began coming to the US to flee the potato famine.

Question 6

The main colors for Halloween are?

Accepted Answer

Black & Orange

Question 7

What did kids ask for at the door when Halloween was first beginning?

Accepted Answer

Food & money

Question 8

How many calories are in the average trick-or-treator's Halloween stash?

Accepted Answer

11,000

Question 9

Where did the tradition of bobbing for apples orginate?

Accepted Answer

It was the symbol of the Roman Goddess of fruit and trees.

Question 10

How many pieces of candy does the average household pass out on Halloween?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 11

Halloween's origins date back to this ancient festival.

Accepted Answer

Celtic festival of Samhain

Question 12

What's your favorite holiday?

Accepted Answer

Thanksgiving, Summer Vacation, Christmas, Halloween

Question 13

People in medieval times started carving what?

Accepted Answer

Turnips

Question 14

Halloween means what in Old English?

Accepted Answer

Saints' evening

Question 15

Halloween also means?

Accepted Answer

All Hallows Eve

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