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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:24 pm
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True/False
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.
Answer: True
7. Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead.
Answer: True
8. All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day which is celebrated on November 1
Answer: False
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.
Answer: True
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.
Answer: True
11. A haunting is a kind of 'recording' of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield.
Answer: True
12. In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses.
Answer: True
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.
Answer: True
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.
Answer: True
15. Trick-or-treating developed during the 1930s as a means to control young people's Halloween night pranks.
Answer: False
16. Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
Answer: True
17. Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.
Answer: True
18. Black cats were once believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers.
Answer: True
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:45 pm
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General
19. Name another color in which pumpkins can be found in.
Answer: Green
20. Orange and black are Halloween colors. What does Orange represent?
Answer: Autumn.
21. What does black represent?
Answer: Death
22. What are the mythical beings who defy death by sucking the blood of humans called?
Answer: Vampires (*cough* *cough* NO, THEY DO NOT SPARKLE! *cough* *cough*)
23. A unibrow, hairy palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger are signs that would mark a person as being what common Halloween creature?
Answer: Werewolf
24. What phobia do you suffer from if you have an intense fear of Halloween?
Answer: Samhainophobia
25. The first Jack-o-Lanterns were made out of what?
Answer: Turnips
26. If you see a spider on Halloween, what does it mean?
Answer: Spirit of a dead loved one is watching you (spiteful bastards...)
27. According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what will you see?
Answer: Your future spouse
28. What do folk traditionally "bob" for at Halloween parties?
Answer: APPLES!
29. What are male witches called?
Answer: Warlocks
30. What is the name of the serial killer in the film "Halloween"?
Answer: Jason
31. Samhainophobia is the fear of ________.
Answer: Halloween
32. Halloween is the day before what Christian holiday?
Answer: All saints' day
33. Who sat in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin in the classic "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"?
Answer: Linus Van Pelt
34. When was candy corn invented?
Answer: 1880
35. Transylvania is a historic region in ________.
Answer: Romania
36. Witches brew potions in a _________.
Answer: Cauldron
37. Is a pumpkin a fruit or vegetable?
Answer: Fruit! (Wait... what?!)
38. What is holy water?
Answer: Water blessed and sanctioned by a priest to cleanse the flesh of evil and/or darkness in the name of God/Jesus Christ
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?
Answer: Midnight
40. What type of cloth is worn everyday by many people to ward off potential ghostly visitations?
Answer: Fennel
41. What is a khu?
Answer: A part of the soul/spirit that left the body after death
42. What is the name of a spirit that is supposedly born from fire, or created by crafty magicians.
Answer: Salamanders
43. What common household seasoning is a classic defense against evil spirits?
Answer: Garlic
44. What was the name of the very first werewolf movie?
Answer: Werewolf of London
45. Werewolf hunters believe that you can obtain sanctuary from a predatory werewolf by climbing into what kind of tree?
Answer: Mountain Ash
46. In addition to the word, 'lycanthrope,' what other term is most often used when referring to a werewolf?
Answer: Shape-changer
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:46 pm
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47. Did you know that it is widely believed that ghosts loathe holy water and are unable to cross any water running over ground?
48. Did you know that ghosts are fond of silver?
49. Did you know that the ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit left the body when it died, and were considered responsible for illnesses and misfortune of the deceased person's family?
50. Did you know that the Irish would bury the corpse of a person suspected of being the victim of a vampire, face down?
51. Did you know that in Italy, there is a belief that anyone born at a particular time of day is prone to become a werewolf?
52. Did you know that in Argentina as late into modern times as the 20th century, the seventh male child was always thought to become a werewolf?
53. Did you know that for this reason, dozens of newborn children were murdered and their bodies disposed of?
54. Did you also know that in the 1920's, to prevent this belief from festering further, the Argentine President gave a reward to parents who preserved the life of their seventh born male child?
55. Did you also know that in Belgium, black cats are considered unlucky on ships?
56. Did you know that in China, the Halloween festival is known as Teng Chieh?
57. Did you know that until the last 20 years France didn't celebrate Halloween at all?
58. Did you know that in Germany, they put away all their knives for Halloween?
59. Did you know in Hong Kong the name for Halloween is "Yue Lan" (Festival of the Hungry Ghosts)?
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