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.
- Classroom review
- Test prep
- Team trivia
- Group play
- Family game night
A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
This October festival of the ancient Celts inspired many Halloween customs.
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Samhain
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Carved and candlelit, this grinning porch decoration lights the night.
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jack-o'-lantern
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This masked slasher stalks Haddonfield in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.
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Michael Myers
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Tri-colored kernels of mellowcreme that some love and others loathe.
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candy corn
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Kids in costumes go door to door for sweets, saying this rhyming phrase.
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trick or treat
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Board content
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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