Halloween Trivia

1. The practice of wearing costumes on Halloween is believed to have come from which country?

From Quiz Costumes and Candy

Answer: Ireland

In Ireland, dressing up during this time of the year was common. It was believed that the practice hid the identity of the participant. It became popular for children to wear costumes and "trick or treat" at the beginning of the 20th century.

From Quiz Halloween Traditions in Ireland

Answer: Your financial outlook looks gloomy

The Barmbrack is a type of fruit and bread mix eaten by family members in Ireland during Halloween. Several objects are cooked into it, with each having a special significance. These are a rag, spotlessly clean of course, a coin and a ring. The coin signifies a prosperous year ahead, the ring of course continued happiness, or a new romance if single, and the rag a gloomy ahead for finances. Be careful when chomping into a piece of Barmbrack cake that you don't break your teeth!

From Quiz All Hallows Evil

Answer: Ireland

Originally known as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival celebrated to ward off ghosts by wearing frightening costumes, Halloween has become a global celebration. Modern Irish Halloween includes eating barnbrack, a raisin bread that has an object inside. Sometimes it's used to tell your fortune! (Source: Wikipedia)

From Quiz Halloween in Ireland

Answer: Samhain

They called it The Feast of the Dead, when those who had passed on came back and visited this world. It was the line between the Summer and the Winter months, when most things had been harvested.

From Quiz History of Halloween

Answer: Ireland

Jack o' Lanterns originated in Ireland where it was common to place candles in hollowed-out turnips. This was done around the Samhain holiday in an attempt to keep away spirits and ghosts.

From Quiz Halloween Funnytrivianna Style

Answer: A carved pumpkin

A carved pumpkin is also known as a jack-o'-lantern. To make a jack-o'-lantern you have to remove the top. With a spoon, or even your hands, you can pull out the inner flesh and seeds leaving the inside hollow. With a carving knife a creepy face can be carved from the outside in, right through the pumpkin shell. A glow stick, candle or other source of light is placed inside and the lid is put back on. The jack-o'-lantern will glow, exposing just how creepy the carved face is.

From Quiz Spooky, Creepy, Eerie

Answer: Jack Skellington

Jack Skellingon the "Pumpkin King" inadvertently finds the portal between Halloween Town and Christmas Town. Excited by his find and by the wonder that he saw in Christmas Town, he returns to Halloween Town and explains what he has found. The people of Halloween Town don't see it quite the same way, however. Playing along with the folks of Halloween Town, Jack finally announces that they would take over Christmas! Jack takes on the guise of Sandy Claws and rides a coffin pulled by skeletal reindeer! The real Santa is kidnapped and held prisoner by Oogie Booge. Sally tries to stop this terrible event and eventually Jack comes to his senses. Jack then helps Sally rescue Santa Claus. Romance blossoms between Jack and Sally with a wonderful happy ending to this animated film.

From Quiz Halloween Alphabetics

Answer: All Hallows' Eve

All Saints' Day or All Hallows' Day was celebrated on November 1 as the start of the Celtic New Year and beginning of winter. The night before, called All Hallows' Eve, witches and other evil spirits were believed to roam the Earth playing tricks on humans.

From Quiz Halloween Origins

Answer: School boards

Younger people were using Halloween as an excuse to commit pranks in the neighborhoods. As time went by, the pranks began to escalate into expensive vandalism, and in some cases violence. The school boards, urged to "do something" by the parents, got together with the town councils to come up with a safe activity for their children. The town council, in turn, got the businesses and locals to all co-operate in giving the children candy, to keep them out of mischief.

From Quiz Happy Halloween

Answer: Samhainophobia

Halloween is the witches' New Year and is called Samhian.

From Quiz Fractured Halloween

Answer: jack o'lantern & jackolantern & jack-o-lantern & jack o lantern & jack o' lantern & jack-o'-lantern

The Irish used to hollow out potatoes, beets, turnips, and such to make lanterns for scaring away "Stingy Jack," a wandering ghost. In America, Irish immigrants discovered that pumpkins made the best jack o'lanterns--easier to hollow out and carve.

From Quiz Creepy Halloween

Answer: Samhain

From Quiz Fun Halloween Trivia for All!

Answer: Ghost

Casper appears in cartoons, comics and movies. He's one of my favorites.

From Quiz Halloween Traditions in Ireland

Answer: Colcannon

Colcannon, a word that translates to "cal ceannanan" in the Gaelic, means a white-headed cabbage. It is eaten with mashed potatoes and raw onion on Halloween in Ireland. After the potatoes are mashed, individual coins are wrapped up in greaseproof paper and put into each serving handed out to children. Imagine their delight upon spying same - and what a great way to ensure dinner is eaten.

From Quiz Halloween Hijinks

Answer: 1,469 lbs (666.33 kg)

In 2010, Scott Cullly set yet another record carving a pumpkin weighing a whopping 1,810.5 lbs (821.23 kg). While modern jack o'lanterns are most closely associated with pumpkins, other fruits and vegetables have been carved over the centuries, including gourds, turnips, and mangelwurzels. A mangelwurzel is a root vegetable also known as a mangel beet. A "mangled" vegetable would seem appropriate for a night when zombies, vampires and goblins roam. Did you get the hint? How devilishly large? Sign of the beast: 666 Question by pitegny.

From Quiz Halloween in Ireland

Answer: Eighth century

Since October 31 was the day before All Hallow's Day, the night of October 31 had to be All Hallow's Eve, which in time became contracted to Halloween. The current date of All Saints' Day (All Hallow's Day) was founded by Pope Gregory, 731 to 741 AD.

From Quiz History of Halloween

Answer: Saint

Hallow means saint. The Catholic holiday of All Saints Day falls on November 1st and has become interwoven with other European holidays involving the coming of winter, the harvest season and the celebration of the dead to become the holiday that we know today.

From Quiz Halloween Trivia

Answer: UNICEF

The UNICEF program during Halloween began in the United States in 1950 in Philadelphia and expanded nationally in 1952. Teachers in schools distribute the collection boxes to their students, who in turn use them on Halloween night to solicit donations.

From Quiz Spooky, Creepy, Eerie

Answer: Amityville

The plot, of this part of the episode, centers on a slaughtered family in Amityville. The home, having been the scene where another family had died in a similar fashion, appears to be haunted. After DNA tests are done and past history of the previous murders is looked into, it is discovered that two people, Henry and Betty, had survived the past murders. Henry and Betty did not want the new owners of the home to discover a suitcase full of bones which belonged to Henry's sister, whom he had accidentally shot years ago. Betty had hidden the body but when they learned that the new people were going to renovate the house, she wanted her child's bones back first. While Henry was secretly in the house retrieving the bones, the family returned home early and that startled Henry! In his panic he shot all of them.

From Quiz Halloween Alphabetics

Answer: bat

Bats are the only winged mammal and are members of the order Chiroptera. Most bats eat tiny insects or fruit. Only one bat species - one of three species of vampire bats - actually drinks blood.

From Quiz Halloween Origins

Answer: turnips

Jack O'Lanterns were put out to frighten away evil spirits. When pumpkins were discovered, they were found to be much easier to carve, thus the transition.

From Quiz Happy Halloween

Answer: Devil's son

Bram Stoker's creation "Dracula" was based on the life of Prince Vlad Tepes (1431-1476). He was also called Vlad the Impaler since he had a bad habit of impaling his victims on stakes. The name "Dracula" is Romanian for Devil's son. Vlad Dracula's father was a knight of the Order of the Draco or dragon, so Dracula also translates as "the Son of Draco".

From Quiz Boo! It's Halloween

Answer: Candy corn

Candy corn is a little piece of tri-colored candy made to look like corn. It was revolutionary when it was created for the simple fact that it was tri-colored.

From Quiz Creepy Halloween

Answer: bat

From Quiz Fun Halloween Trivia for All!

Answer: Black

This is only a superstition, I hope ...

From Quiz Costumes and Candy

Answer: Orange and black

Orange was a symbol of strength and endurance and stands for the harvest and autumn. Black was typically a symbol of death and darkness. It also acted as a reminder that Halloween celebrated the boundaries between life and death.

From Quiz Halloween Traditions in Ireland

Answer: Colluding with Old Nick

Irish tradition has it that the art of carving pumpkins began in that lovely country. Initially though, turnips were used instead of pumpkins. During the 1700s, one Jack the blacksmith was said to have colluded with the devil to obtain his objectives, and when this was revealed, he was forever after denied entry into heaven, and had to wander the earth eternally. He asked his pitchforked cohort for some light to enable him to do this and was given a burning ember which he placed inside a hollowed out turnip. When millions of Irish sailed to the United States to begin new lives in later years, this tradition went with them. Because of the scarcity of turnips there however, pumpkins were used instead. Today Jack O'Lanterns are placed in Irish windows on Halloween to keep Jack, that damned soul, away from the family home.

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