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WorksheetsHalloween Trivia
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The term “jack o’lantern” originates from an ___ folktale about a cheap man named “Stingy Jack” who made a deal with the devil.
Irish
German
Brazilian
Transylvanian
The world’s longest haunted house is The Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, _____, is a whopping 3,564 feet long and located 80 feet underground!
Michigan
Minnesota
Ohio
New Mexico
A whopping ____ million pounds of candy corn is made every year—amounting to about 9 billion pieces.
481
1,783
10
35
Americans spend _____ on Halloween in 2019.
$100 million
$2.6 billion
$54 million
$12 billion
Candy corn originally called ________.
Chicken Feed
Buffalo Feed
Hog Feed
Bat Feed
Many Europeans, including the _______ , dressed in costumes to repel spirits that they believed came back to Earth on what we now know as Halloween.
Puritans
Celtics
English
Polish
In Des Moines, Iowa, the night before Halloween is called _______ Night, in which kids go door-to-door telling jokes, reciting poems or dancing in exchange for sweets.
Houdini's
Scottish
All Fool's
Beggar’s
Mamie Eisenhower, in ________, was the first First Lady to decorate the White House for Halloween
1846
1995
1958
1893
The famous magician, Harry ______, died on Halloween.
Hamlin
Stiles
Carrie
Houdini
Halloween is thought to have originated in ________.
4000 B.C.
1775
1642
2500 B.C.
Halloween was first celebrated in the United States around the 1840s when there was a flood of Irish immigrants fleeing from the potato famine
carrot
potato
turnip
pumpkin
The first city-wide Halloween celebration in the United States was in ______.
Anoka, Minnesota
San Jose, California
Baltimore, Maryland
Springfield, Illinois
The Irish, who started the tradition, first used ________ for jack o’lanterns before finding that pumpkins were actually much easier to carve. In England, large beets were sometimes used.
rutabagas and potatoes
turnips and apples
potatoes and turnips
watermelons and cantelopes
The soldiers in battle in the Korean War where given _______.
Snickers
M & M's
Milk Duds
Tootsie Rolls
About ______ calories are in an average trick-or-treater’s Halloween stash.
500
4,000
75,000
11,000
_________ is banned in California on Halloween.
Silly String
Colored hairspray
Face paint
Sparklers
________ popularized Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating
France and Sweden
The United States of America
Scotland and Ireland
Cuba and Bermuda
The average house gives each trick-or-treater ____ pieces of candy.
one
two
three
four
_____ is the most popular Halloween candy in America.
Skittles
Snickers
M & M's
Reese's
The first-ever fun-size candy bars were __________.
Hershey's and Reese's
Snickers and Reese's
Milky Way and Hershey's
Snickers and Milky Way
