oh the years of Halloween! | horrorrr | randummmmm | ohhh the good ol' days!! | what's the average? more calories!!! |
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What year was the first time we celebrated Halloween in this house?
2015
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name 5 horror movies
Example: Chucky, happy death day, Annabelle, Chucky 2, happy death day,
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How much did Americans spend on Halloween in 2019?
$2.6 billion
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When is Halloween thought to have originated?
4000 B. C.
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What classic horror movie creature’s shape was based on the Oscar statuette?
he Creature From the Black Lagoon
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What face did dad carve on a pumpkin that he has a picture of saved on his phone?
the face was the pumpkin barfing
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Name one Halloween movies that we have watched as a family.
Example: Edward scissors hands,
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what was candy corn originally called?
Chicken Feed
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When was Halloween first celebrated in the United States?
Around the 1840s when there was a flood of Irish immigrants fleeing from the potato famine
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How many pieces of candy does the average house give to each trick-or-treater?
Two pieces
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What was Leo last year for Halloween?
an orange morph suit!
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Where is the world’s longest haunted house?
The Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, Ohio, is a whopping 3,564 feet long and located 80 feet underground!
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What famous magician died on Halloween?
Harry Houdini
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Where was the first city-wide Halloween celebration in the United States?
Anoka, Minnesota
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What is the “correct” spelling of Halloween?
Halloween was originally spelled “Hallowe’en,” a contraction of “All Hallows Even.”
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has Leo ever been to a Halloween party?
Yes!! at Jack Fouts
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How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?
A whopping 35 million pounds of candy corn is made every year—amounting to about 9 billion pieces.
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What is the most commercially successful horror movie of all time?
It
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What was used before pumpkins to make jack o’ lanterns?
The Irish, who started the tradition, first used potatoes and turnips for jack o’ lanterns before finding that pumpkins were actually much easier to carve. In England, large beets were sometimes used.
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What item is banned in California on Halloween?
Silly String
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What is the plan for Halloween this year?
first dinner, then dessert, and then we will play jeopardy and then last but not least... watch a movie maybe?
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What was the original title for Disney’s Hocus Pocus?
Hocus Pocus was initially called Halloween House—and it was more horror than comedy.
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What is Hong Kong’s Festival of Hungry Ghosts called?
Yue Lan
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Who sang the original “Monster Mash?”
Bobby Pickett
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How many calories are in an average trick-or-treater’s Halloween stash?
11,000!
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