Halloween

1. Halloween is celebrated on ___. a. February 14th b. July 14th c. October 31st d. December 25th 2. The word comes from medieval England's All Hallows' ___. a. eve b. time c. month d. rite It's believed that ___ have supernatural powers, and that they fly on broomsticks. a. Wizards b. Witches c. Fairies d. Ghosts Halloween is the time for ___ fun. a. spooky b. frosty c. very d. plenty 3. ___ and black are colors associated with Halloween. a. Blue b. Red c. Orange d. Green ___ are carved into Jack-o'-Lanterns. a. Pumpkins b. Melons c. Potatoes d. Onions Children wear scary ___. a. habits b. costumes c. gowns d. customs Children go from door to door asking for ___. a. tricks b. treats c. money d. coins When children go to someone's door they say "___." a. Trick or treat b. Treat or trick c. Treat or treat d. Trick or beat ___ are also associated with Halloween. a. Black dogs b. Brown bears c. Black cats d. White cats

1: Who first celebrated what we've come to know as Halloween? The Druids. The Romans. The Christians. 2: The tradition of dressing up started because: We try to scare away evil spirits. It's a way to honor the dead. When the evil spirits came, they wouldn't recognize you. 3: The celebration of Samhain is to honor: The God of the dead. The end of summer. The priest who held the first Halloween service. 4: The Romans called Halloween Pomona Day. Who or what was Pomona? The town where the Romans first celebrated Pomona Day. The goddess of fruits and gardens. The place where evil spirits dwell. 5: Halloween falls on the night before: All Soul's Day. All Saint's Day. The first Harvest Moon

Let's start really easy with 'Casper the friendly _____.' Ghost Cat Pumpkin Witch Beware of a _____ cat crossing your path! They say it's bad luck. Black Striped Calico Gray Put a light in the _______ to light up its face. Window Refrigerator Doorway Pumpkin

Kids love to get _____ when they go "trick or treating"! Candy Kittens Fruit Cereal Witches love to fly around on a _____. Vacuum Cleaner Jet Plane Dragon Broomstick You can dress up in your favorite _______ for Halloween. Barrel Costume Food Plant You can dress up like a ______ on Halloween and wear red horns and a tail. Snow Queen Pumpkin Vegetable Devil Be safe and carry a __________ to go trick or treating. Bucket Cat Cape Flashlight It's fun, but a little scary to go into the Haunted _______ on Halloween. Waterfall Lion Cage House Car

Halloween is on this same date every year. What is it? October 13 October 31 November 1 October 1 A _______ costume is scary because he wears fangs. Mighty Mouse Vampire Turkey Robot To make a Jack o'Lantern you need to carve a face on a _______. Carrot Pumpkin Birthday Cake Squash A good Halloween game is bobbing for ______. Apples Playmates Lemons Do-nuts Little girls like to put on a crown and dress up like a ________. Witch Frog Princess Clown

Is Halloween, October 31st, a public holiday? Yes No

According to legend, how do you kill a vampire? Bury it at a crossroads Cremate it All of these Pound a stake through its heart What kind of candy, divided into three layers, is a popular treat around this time? Answer: (Two Words)

The word Halloween derives from which of the following? "All Hallow's Eve" "Samhain" "All Saints Day" Nothing, it's always been Halloween Fill in this movie title: "It's the Great Pumpkin, _______ _____" Answer: (Two words)

Which 1993 movie feature characters such as Max, Dani, and Allison? Halloweentown The Witches of Eastwick

Halloween Hocus Pocus What do kids traditionally say to people at Halloween time in hopes of receiving candy, a toy, etc.? Answer: (Three words,)

Which of these animals is considered a bad omen around Halloween? Dog Mouse Cockroach Bat Which of these sings "Monster Mash"? Bobby Pickett Billy Ray Cyrus Dr. Demento Frankie Avalon What phase of moon supposedly makes people act crazier and causes humans to turn into werewolves? Quarter moon Harvest moon Half moon Full moon True or false: Halloween grew from evil practices True False

Questions
1 Who hunted down the ghosts of Hollywood celebrities in the Dead Famous TV series? Gail Porter 2 Who is the famous daughter of Psycho star Janet Leigh with a Halloween connection?

Jamie Lee Curtis 3 Who said there was something of the night about Tory politician Michael Howard? Anne Widdecombe 4 Who had a hit single which began and ended with Vincent Price? Michael Jackson (Thriller) 5 In Celtic mythology the wailing of which supernatural being is an omen of death? Banshee 6 What ghostly phenomena gets its name from the German for noisy spirit? Poltergeist 7 Which Belgian noble woman was sentenced to death for bathing in the blood of servant girls she had murdered in order to keep her young? Countess Elizabeth Bathory 8 What rite is used in a number of religions for the expulsion of so called evil spirits? Exorcism 9 Name the author of Dracula Bram Stoker 10 Phasmophobia is the fear of what? Ghosts 11 Coulrophobia is a fear of what? Clowns 12 Stygiophobia is the fear of what? Hell 13 Who wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde? Robert Louis Stevenson 14 Which of the following is not a novel by prolific Welsh horror writer Guy N Smith? Night of the Crabs, Day of the Crabs, Carnivore, Crypt Crypt 15 In which year did Max Schreck play a bushy browed vampire Friederich Murnaus Nosferatu? 1921 16 Which year saw the release of the original RKO version of King Kong? 1933 17 Who played the american ambassador to London whose son was the spawn of the devil in 1976? Gregory Peck 18 Which film saw Brit Eckland shed her clothes in an attempt to seduce a virginal police officer? The Wicker Man 19 Which Italian director was responsible for the films Suspiria, Tenebrea and Inferno? Dario Argento

CREEPY HALLOWEEN QUIZ

1. Which of the following things will not get rid of a vampire? Crucifix Garlic

Holy water Silver bullet 2. What was Neve Campbells characters name in the movie Scream? Tori Sydney Samantha Bobbi 3. In the movie Frankenstein, who was Frankenstein? The town the story took place in The monster The scientist The dead guy whose brain was put inside the monster 4. The study of werewolves is properly called: Astronomy Mysogony Optometry Lycanthropy 5. What was the killers name in the original Halloween movie? Jason Vorhees Michael Myers Freddy Krueger Andrew Andrews

6. In the 1999 movie The Mummy, what was the one thing the mummy was afraid of? Cleopatra Scarab beetles Sand storms Cats 7. Which member of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast has an identical twin in real life? Nicholas Brendan Alyson Hanniga Sarah Michelle Gellar Michelle Trachtenberg 8. In The Speckled Band, a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery story, what was the Speckled Band? A diamond bracelet A snake A poisonous mushroom A gang of killer children 9. What is the proper name for the power to move objects using only the mind? Psychometry Telepathy Telekinesis Pyromania 10. What country was the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, the real-life inspiration for Count Dracula?

Transylvania Romania Bulgaria Belarusse 11. Who directed the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas? Stephen King Richard Scary Steven Spielberg Henry Selick 12. In Stephen Kings scary novel Christine, what was Christine? A high school cheerleader A ghost A jukebox A car 13. What is the name of the creepy online comic strip created by Tim Burton? Slimeboy Mortimer Snerd Sticky Dicky Stainboy 14. Which female spider kills and eats her lover after mating with him? The Tarantula The Black Widow

The Tarantella The Seductra 15. In the 1998 movie The Faculty, what was the only thing that could kill the evil alien slugs? Salt Water Fire Loud noise

Halloween Quiz

1. The word "Halloween" has its origins in the ___________ church. a. Lutheran b. Catholic c. Christ 2. The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the ________. a. 1840's b. 1900's c. 1760's 3. The jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from ________ folklore. a. English b. Spanish c. Irish 4. The Irish used __________ as the jack-o-lanterns originally instead of pumpkins. a. squash b. turnips

c. cabbages

5. Halloween is celebrated on October ____.

a. 29 b. 30 c. 31

Halloween Quiz
1. I'm not always hirsute (hairy), but it's always a hoot, to be with me on a full moon, you can call me ______________________. The Wolfman 2. A creepy place to go when your life has gone that rhymes with whipped is a ______________. A Crypt 3. I'm rather anemic and would be partial to drinking you dry, who am I? ___________. Dracula or a vampire 4. Wrap me up in bandages, put me in a dry place and I'll keep for millenniums my moniker is ______________. the mummy 5. What is a voluptuous female alien to do when all she likes to drink is warm and red _______________. Vampirella 6. Give me a hockey mask and an axe and I'm ready to play, my handle is ____________. Jason 7. I'm ready Freddie, my fingers are hypodermics, you know me well, just my last name will do _____________ and by the way, what's my movie? Krueger Nightmare

on Elm Street

8. We're spooky, and kooky, mysterious and ooky we're ______________. The Adams Family 9. I'm a big orange pumpkin that's had its innards maliciously carved out hence I'm called_________________ Jack o' Lantern 10. An arm here, an eye there, sew me up and what have you got? _________________ Frankenstein 11. Don't stay at my hotel especially when I'm feeling a little motherly. ______________ Norman Bates 12. I'm a teenage witch as well as a film staring Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn ___________ Sabrina 13 13. I'm big, I'm strong but not too bright and Harry Potter stuck his wand up my nose. ______________ an ogre or a troll

How's your Halloween Vocabulary give me at least one synomym

cemetery monument or marker cosmetics phantom mutant

barrows graveyard head, grave,tomb,stone make up Ghost Specter freak

carcass an eater of dead bodies scream costume

a dead body, cadaver, corpse

ghoul
cry yell shriek masquerade getup disguise

burial-chamber tomb crypt vault grave or mausoleum Bonus Questions I am quite dead, however I can be led... by you if you know a little voodoo. __________________.Zombie, living dead (fill in the blank) The spector ______ the castle for years. Haunted

Halloween - Quiz

1. When is Halloween celebrated? 13 October 31 October 1 November 2. What are the special colours of Halloween? purple and orange white and orange black and orange 3. What is a Jack-o-Lantern made of? melon pumpkin cucumber 4. The festival of Halloween marked the end of summer the end of autumn the end of winter 5. A witch flies on a board broom cat 6. Who brought Halloween to America? English immigrants German immigrants Irish immigrants 7. What aren't supernatural creatures? princesses fairies witches 8. What do children say when the knock at the door on Halloween?

Trick or Treat Trick or Money Trick or Beat 9. Which creatures abound during Halloween? black rats white mice black cats 10. What is potion?
Question 2: What is Halloween's official name? A: Night of the dead B: Hallowspook C: All Hallow's Eve Question 3: What would you call a group of witches? A: Gaggle

a liquid with magic powers a mixture of dried flowers something to eat

B: Haggle C: Coven t

Question 4: What does a witch use for transport? A: Bus number 666 B: Broomstick C: Baked beans Question 6: What is supposed to happen on All Hallow's Eve? A: Rising of the dead B: Haunting ghosts C: Annoying tricks Question 7: Which Shakespeare play begins with three witches on a heath? A: Hamlet B: Richard III C: Macbeth

Halloween is celebrated on 31 October in

Your answer: Great Britain only the United States and Great Britain the United States The ancient origins of Halloween are Your answer: Celtic Irish

Roman The word Halloween comes from Your answer: a Roman word All Hallow's Eve an Irish song America children in elementary schools Your answer: have a Halloween party at school make Halloween cards sing Celtic songs

American teenagers
Your answer: don't celebrate Halloween don't go to school on 31 October have a party on Halloween evening On Halloween evening American and British children and teenagers put on their costumes and masks and Your answer: go "trick-or-treating" dance in the streets write on doors with soap