I couldn't find a good Halloween quiz on the internet, so I made one. Here it is.
1. Halloween originated from all but which of the following? (3 points)
a) the Celtic festival of Samhain
b) the Christian holiday All Saints' Day
c) the Gothic Festival of Lupercalia, goddess of fruits and seeds
d) the ancient Britons summer's end festival, Calan Gaeaf
e) the Roman festival of the dead called Parentalia
2. Every year on Halloween, Charlie Brown and his friend __________ sit in a ______________ __________ waiting for ______ __________ ______________ to appear. (6 points)
3. Which of the following does not describe a ghoul? (3 points)
a) it dwells in burial grounds and other uninhabited places
b) it is a desert-dwelling, shape shifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal
c) it lures unwary travelers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them
d) it is the spirit of a soul trapped in this world and unable to pass on to the afterlife
e) it eats the dead taking on the form of the one they previously ate
4. Which of the following artists would put on a "musical costume" on Halloween by performing an entire album by another artist? (3 points)
a) The Grateful Dead
b) The Dave Matthews Band
c) Phish
d) Pink Floyd
e) "Weird Al" Yankovic
5. Match the following fictional characters with their creator. (6 points)
a) Frankenstein Bram Stoker
b) Count Dracula Victor Miller
c) Michael Myers Robert Louis Stevenson
d) Mr. Hyde Mary Shelley
e) The Headless Horseman John Carpenter
f) Jason Voorhees Washington Irving
6. Which of the following is the Guinness world record holder for the "World's Largest Walk Through Haunted House"? (3 points)
a) The Cutting Edge Haunted House; Fort Worth, Texas
b) The Bates Motel & Pennhurst Asylum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
c) The Haunted Mansion; Disneyworld, Orlando, Florida
d) Fuji Q Highland; Saikyo Senritsu Meikyu, Japan
e) The Borley Rectory; Sudbury, Essex, England
7. The song "Monster Mash" was written in 19__2 by which of the following artists? (hint: each of the below artists released songs this year) (6 points)
a) Howlin' Wolf
b) Bobby "Boris" Pickett
c) Cliff Richard and The Shadows
d) Chuck Berry
e) Jimmy Smith
8. Which of the following is NOT a story in the 1981 collection, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? (3 points)
a) The Hook
b) The Big Toe
c) "May I Carry Your Basket?"
d) High Beams
e) Something Wicked This Way Comes
9. Rank the following scary movies by US domestic box office total (highest to lowest). (5 points)
a) Jaws
b) The Sixth Sense
c) I Am Legend
d) Signs
e) Ghost Busters
10. What is the name of Stephen King's first novel? (6 points)
1. c
Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, primarily in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, but is today largely a secular celebration. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)". The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced Kálan Gái av).
2. Every year on Halloween, Charlie Brown and his friend Linus sit in a pumpkin patch waiting for The Great Pumpkin to appear.
3. d
In ancient Arabian folklore, the ghūl dwells in burial grounds and other uninhabited places. The Arabian ghoul is a desert-dwelling, shapeshifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary travellers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, robs graves, drinks blood, steals coins and eats the dead taking on the form of the one they previously ate.
4. c
Phish's Halloween shows have included the following:
1994 The Beatles - The White Album
1995 The Who - Quadrophenia
1996 The Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1998 The Velvet Underground - Loaded (in Las Vegas) and Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (in West Valley City, UT)
5.
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 19. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.
- Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
- Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886.
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820.
- Friday the 13th, the 1978 film was written by Victor Miller, and was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham; neither returned to write nor direct any of the sequels.
6. a
Built in the late 1920's as a meat packing warehouse, Cutting Edge has a total length of 689.17 m (2,261.08 ft) from its entrance to its exit and it takes, on average, 55 minutes for the visitors to cover the distance, taking in all the scary haunted house props, spooky ghosts, frightening decorations, strobe lights, fog and monsters along the way.
The Bates Motel is a high action, adrenaline pumping haunted attraction featuring a 25 minute, heart pounding haunted hayride through the dark forests of Arasapha Farm. This horrific hayride is just the beginning. The dark corridors of the Cornfield Trail will surely send shivers up your spine, but nothing compares to the main attraction of this trilogy of terror, The Bates Motel, a huge Victorian mansion filled with computer controlled animatronics, digital sound , lighting and fog, detailed rooms, custom soundtracks, and a host of professional actors. Consistently ranked best in the country, The Bates Motel is one show you won't want to miss!
The Fuji Q Highland is known as the scariest haunted house in Japan. It takes about 60 minutes to walk through the 0.6-mile route in the haunted hospital.
The Borley Rectory is reputedly the "Most Haunted House in England".
7. b
"Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20 of that year, just in time for Halloween. It has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since.
8. e
Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark is a series of three children's books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The scary stories of the title are pieces of folklore and urban legends collected and adapted by Schwartz.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury.
9.
The Sixth Sense $293,506,292 (Released 8/6/1999)
Jaws $260,000,000 (Released 6/20/1975)
I Am Legend $256,386,216 (Released 12/14/2007)
Ghost Busters $238,632,124 (Released 6/8/1984)
Signs $227,965,690 (Released 8/2/2002)
10.
Carrie is American author Stephen King's first published novel, released in 1974. Carrie is an epistolary novel. It revolves around the titular character Carrie, a shy high-school girl, who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who tease her.
