Think Green This Halloween and a Spook-tacular Quiz!

8/3/2019 Think Green This Halloween and a Spook-tacular Quiz!

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Councilmember Marti Emerald & the City’s Environmental Services Department urge you to

Think Green This Halloween Creative and Fun Things You Can Do to Have an EEK-O-Friendly Halloween

TIP #1 Have children collect Halloween candy in reusable bags or containers theycan keep and use afterwards. According to the EPA, over 380 million plastic bags

and more than 10 million paper bags are used each year in the U.S. alone. Reusablebags are more durable than plastic and paper bags, which can tear and spill treats.

TIP #2 Make your own Halloween costumes instead of buying one you will discardafter the first use. By going to thrift stores or yard sales and using some creativity, you and your child can spquality time together and design something with your own personal touch. Also, avoid non-recyclable matesuch as polyvinyl chloride, which can emit dangerous toxins as well.

TIP #3 Give trick-or-treaters EEK-O-Friendly goodies. Think not only healthy, but consider candy or treats wlittle or no packaging that can be recycled. The treats can be small boxes of crayons, colored pencils, Hallowe

shaped erasers or other inexpensive items you can find at your nearest dollar store.

TIP #4 Instead of driving around town to other neighborhoods; stay close to home for trick-or-treating. Walkigreat exercise and reduces fuel consumption and air pollution. If you must drive, consider carpooling with ofamilies.

TIP #5 If you are throwing a Halloween party, use dishes, utensils and tablecloths than can be washed and reuinstead of thrown away. Also use recycled and recyclable materials to make decorations or use household itemlike white sheets to make ghosts— that can be returned to normal use after the party.

TIP #6 Put your old jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins in your compost bin. If you don’t already compost, thisgood time to start. With falling leaves and other food waste, you can create good soil for your garden to grow mpumpkins for next year. For information on composting, visit www.sandiego.gov/environmenservices/recycling/composting.

TIP #7 Reuse Halloween decorations each year. Properly store your decorations so they can be used next year, julike you would your Christmas, Hanukkah, or Thanksgiving decorations.

TIP #8 Properly dispose of candy wrappers. Make sure children throw away wrappers when they get home, or thro them in trash cans along their trick-or-treating route. Take an extra, reusable bag to pick up litter along the way

TIP #9 Remember to conserve energy by turning off any electrical decorations when you go to bed. This will noonly save on your electric bill, but can prevent possible fire hazards.

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Councilmember Marti Emerald has a question for you…

DO YOU KNOW

HALLOWEEN?Are you an expert on the spooky season?

Of CORPSE you are!See WITCH questions you have a GHOST of a chance of answering

1.What does the wer in werewolf mean?

2.What was Dracula’s real name?

3.What does the word―wicca‖ mean?

4.Every year, Charlie Brown waits with his friend Linus forwhat to appear?

5.What were Jack-o-Lanterns first made out of?

6.Who wrote the novel―Dracula‖ ?

7.How did Trick-or-Treating originate?

8.True or False: Pumpkins only come in one color, orange.

9. Why are orange and black Halloween colors?

10.What is the most popular Halloween candy?

11. In terms of how much money people in the US spend onholidays, how does Halloween rank?

12.Who wrote the novel ―Frankenstein‖?

13.In which century was candy corn invented?

14 .Transylvania is a historic region in which country?

15.What do witches brew their potions in?

16.Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

17.Who is Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego?

18.What is another name for Halloween?

19.Which country does Halloween come from?

20.How do you kill a vampire?

21.Which country celebrates the ―Day of the Dead‖ ?

22.What can kill a werewolf?

23.What color cat is unlucky?



Quiz Answers

1. Man

2. Dracula is the name earned by Prince Vlad of Walachia (Vlad Tepes II), also called "theImpaler" (1431–76)

3. The word wicca means healer. The term witch is derived from the old English word Wicce (meaning wise one) and Wicca (meaning healer)

4. Every year, Charlie Brown and his friend Linus sit in a pumpkin patch waiting for the GreatPumpkin to appear

5. Turnips

6. Bram Stoker

7. By people begging house to house for ―soulcakes‖ in return for promising prayers for the

dead

8. False. Pumpkins also come in white, blue and green.

9. Orange represents fall; and black, darkness and death

10. Chocolate bars.

11. Second

12. Mary Shelley13. Candy corn was invented circa 1880.

14. Romania

15. Cauldron

16. Fruit

17. Mr. Hyde

18. All Hallows’ Eve

19. Ireland

20. Pound a stake through its heart OR decapitate it OR cremate it OR bury it at a crossroads.

21. Mexico – but many people celebrate it here in the United States as well.

22. Silver bullet

23. Black

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Think Green This Halloween and a Spook-tacular Quiz!