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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:46 am
Questions
1. Another name for Halloween is _______.
2. How many bones does a skeleton have?
3. What device is used to contact the spirits?
4. Frankenstein was written by ______.
5. Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for trick or treaters. What candy bar was #1?
Answers:
1. All Hallows' Eve
2. Over 206
3. Ouija board
4. Mary Shelley
5. Snickers
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:07 pm
Questions
6. The largest pumpkin pie ever made was more than five feet in diameter and weighed more than 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, and 12 dozen eggs, and it took six hours to bake.
7. Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead.
8. All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day which is celebrated on November 1
9. Only one species of bat out of almost 950, drink blood. It is the Vampire Bat that lives in Central and South America. And the blood it prefers is NOT human blood, but blood of cattle and birds.
10. El día de los muertos(Day of the Dead), a fiesta observed in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking cultures on Nov. 1 shares some of its history and roots with Halloween.
11. A haunting is a kind of 'recording' of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield.
12. In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses.
13. Once a celebrated luxury ocean liner, when it ended its sailing days the Queen Mary was purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1967 and transformed into a hotel. The most haunted area of the ship is the engine room where a 17-year-old sailor was crushed to death trying to escape a fire.
14. Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, published in 1897, was based loosely on the real-life Vlad Dracula (1431-1476). He was a prince who actually did live in Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
15. Trick-or-treating developed during the 1930s as a means to control young people's Halloween night pranks.
16. Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
17. Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.
18. Black cats were once believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers.
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6. true
7. true
8. true
9. true
10. false
11. true
12. true
13.true
14. true
15. true
16. true
17. true
18. true
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:43 pm
Questions
19. Name another color in which pumpkins can be found in.
20. Orange and black are Halloween colors. What does Orange represent?
21. What does black represent?
22. What are the mythical beings who defy death by sucking the blood of humans called?
23. A unibrow, hairy palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger are signs that would mark a person as being what common Halloween creature?
24. What phobia do you suffer from if you have an intense fear of Halloween?
25. The first Jack-o-Lanterns were made out of what?
26. If you see a spider on Halloween, what does it mean?
27. According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what will you see?
28. What do folk traditionally "bob" for at Halloween parties?
29. What are male witches called?
30. What is the name of the serial killer in the film "Halloween"?
31. Samhainophobia is the fear of ________.
32. Halloween is the day before what Christian holiday?
33. Who sat in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin in the classic "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"?
34. When was candy corn invented?
35. Transylvania is a historic region in ________.
36. Witches brew potions in a _________.
37. Is a pumpkin a fruit or vegetable?
38. What is holy water?
39. A child who is born at a particular time of day is said to possess the ability to see ghosts. What is the time?
40. What type of cloth is worn everyday by many people to ward off potential ghostly visitations?
41. What is a khu?
42. What is the name of a spirit that is supposedly born from fire, or created by crafty magicians.
43. What common household seasoning is a classic defense against evil spirits?
44. What was the name of the very first werewolf movie?
45. Werewolf hunters believe that you can obtain sanctuary from a predatory werewolf by climbing into what kind of tree?
46. In addition to the word, 'lycanthrope,' what other term is most often used when referring to a werewolf?
Answers
19. White
20. Fall harvest
21. Death
22. Vampires
23. Werewolf
24. Samhainophobia
25. turnips
26. Spirit of a loved one is watching over you.
27. Bloody Mary
28. Apples
29. Warlocks
30. Michael Myers
31. Halloween
32. All Saints Day
33. Linus
34. 1880's
35. Romania
36. Caldron
37. fruit
38. sanctified water
39. chime hours
40.
41. Spirit
42.
43. Salt
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