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Halloween: Tricks, Treats & Lore

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This board helps players review Halloween through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Origins & Old-World Roots, Icons & Spooky Symbols, Frights on Screen, Candy & Treats, Global & Local Traditions. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Origins & Old-World Roots

    This October festival of the ancient Celts inspired many Halloween customs.

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    Samhain

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  • Icons & Spooky Symbols

    Carved and candlelit, this grinning porch decoration lights the night.

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    jack-o'-lantern

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  • Frights on Screen

    This masked slasher stalks Haddonfield in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.

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    Michael Myers

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  • Candy & Treats

    Tri-colored kernels of mellowcreme that some love and others loathe.

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    candy corn

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  • Global & Local Traditions

    Kids in costumes go door to door for sweets, saying this rhyming phrase.

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    trick or treat

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Origins & Old-World Roots

$100 — This October festival of the ancient Celts inspired many Halloween customs.
Samhain
$200 — The name “Halloween” comes from this eve before All Saints’ Day.
All Hallows’ Eve
$300 — Medieval door-to-door begging for soul cakes evolved into modern trick-or-treating; Scots called it this.
guising
$400 — In Ireland and Scotland, this humble root vegetable was the original jack-o'-lantern.
turnip
$500 — This watery party game of catching fruit with your teeth began as autumn divination.
apple bobbing

Icons & Spooky Symbols

$100 — Carved and candlelit, this grinning porch decoration lights the night.
jack-o'-lantern
$200 — This inky feline, a witch’s familiar, is a classic omen of bad luck.
black cat
$300 — Bristles and a handle make this witch’s ride soar across silhouettes.
broomstick
$400 — Eight legs and sticky silk make this creature a web design icon.
spider
$500 — These two colors, one fiery and one dark, dominate Halloween decor.
orange and black

Frights on Screen

$100 — This masked slasher stalks Haddonfield in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.
Michael Myers
$200 — Linus waits for this sincere visitor in a 1966 Peanuts special.
The Great Pumpkin
$300 — Jack Skellington sings through this stop-motion tale of two holiday worlds.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
$400 — Bette Midler leads this trio of resurrected witches known as these sisters.
Sanderson sisters
$500 — This long-running Simpsons anthology delivers annual spooky sketches.
Treehouse of Horror

Candy & Treats

$100 — Tri-colored kernels of mellowcreme that some love and others loathe.
candy corn
$200 — Peanut butter in a chocolate cup that often tops Halloween favorites.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
$300 — Hard-shell chews with the slogan “Taste the Rainbow”.
Skittles
$400 — A lollipop with a chocolatey center made famous by “How many licks?”.
Tootsie Pop
$500 — Small bars and bags sized for door-to-door hauls are labeled this.
fun size

Global & Local Traditions

$100 — Kids in costumes go door to door for sweets, saying this rhyming phrase.
trick or treat
$200 — Mexico’s Nov. 1–2 remembrance with marigolds and sugar skulls.
Día de Muertos
$300 — In medieval England, door-to-door pleas for soul cakes were called this.
souling
$400 — Families swap porches for parking lots in this car-based candy event.
trunk-or-treat
$500 — On Nov. 5 in the UK, fireworks and bonfires mark this historical night.
Guy Fawkes Night

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