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Quiz about Halloween Alphabetics
Quiz about Halloween Alphabetics

Halloween Alphabetics Trivia Quiz


Here is a fun quiz on Halloween, incorporating the letters of the alphabet. Unfortunately, not every letter in the alphabet has a Halloween term associated.

A multiple-choice quiz by bookworm78. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
bookworm78
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
194,167
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
19 / 20
Plays
8991
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 172 (20/20), toddruby96 (20/20), boombaby (19/20).
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Question 1 of 20
1. By what name was Halloween originally known? Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. What flying mammal is used as a spooky addition to many Halloween stories?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 3 of 20
3. What do you wear on Halloween? Hint


Question 4 of 20
4. Which of the following words describes a malevolent being, generally seeking to do evil? Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. What spooky E word is often used at Halloween? Hint


Question 6 of 20
6. What is the name of an evil scientist who created a monster with his assistant Igor? Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. What is white and filmy and haunts you? Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. In what kind of building would you find ghosts, cobwebs and paintings with eyes that follow you around? Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. Who is the main character in Washington Irving's Halloween story "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"? Hint


Question 10 of 20
10. What do you carve a pumpkin into at Halloween time? Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. Disney's "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" tells the stories from two classic novels, "Wind in the Willows" and what other book? Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. Which night sky object is always creepiest when full on Halloween?

Answer: (One Word, four letters)
Question 13 of 20
13. What Tim Burton movie blends two holidays, Halloween and Christmas? Hint


Question 14 of 20
14. Along with black, what other color is considered a Halloween color?

Answer: (One Word, six letters, starts with O)
Question 15 of 20
15. What orange squash is a symbol of Halloween, often seen carved with candles inside? Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. What bony creatures rattle around the cemeteries at Halloween time? Hint


Question 17 of 20
17. What do you say at the door when you are out asking for candy? (no hyphens!)

Answer: (Three Words, no hyphens, starts with T)
Question 18 of 20
18. What creature sucks your blood by biting you on the neck? Hint


Question 19 of 20
19. Which is NOT a person who knows spells and magic? Hint


Question 20 of 20
20. What Z word is a term for creatures that are animated dead? Hint





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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. By what name was Halloween originally known?

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.
2. What flying mammal is used as a spooky addition to many Halloween stories?

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.
3. What do you wear on Halloween?

Answer: costumes

Some standard Halloween costumes include ghost, witch, princess, mummy, doctor and clown. Other costumes are based on movies or books, like "Ghostbusters" in the 1980s, and "Harry Potter" in the 2000s.
4. Which of the following words describes a malevolent being, generally seeking to do evil?

Answer: demon

In 1589 a demonologist named Binsfield listed the following major demons and their particular evils: Lucifer (pride), Mammon (avarice), Asmodeus or Ashmodai (lechery), Satan (anger), Beelzebub (gluttony), Leviathan (envy), and Belphegor (sloth). (From Encyclopedia.com)
5. What spooky E word is often used at Halloween?

Answer: eerie

Eerie is defined as: a) inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening. b) suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious (from Dictionary.com).
6. What is the name of an evil scientist who created a monster with his assistant Igor?

Answer: Frankenstein

"Frankenstein" is a novel by Mary Shelley. Dr. Frankenstein created a monster who was basically gentle, but was ultimately killed by a frightened mob. Today, many people assume the monster was called Frankenstein.
7. What is white and filmy and haunts you?

Answer: ghost

Other words for ghost include the following: apparition, appearance, banshee, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spirit, and wraith.
8. In what kind of building would you find ghosts, cobwebs and paintings with eyes that follow you around?

Answer: haunted houses

Haunted Houses are prevalent in many Halloween movies and stories. In October, many towns host spook alleys or haunted houses with people dressed up as monsters and scary decorations designed to scare children and adults alike. Haunted mazes are also fun because they are scary and you can get lost.
9. Who is the main character in Washington Irving's Halloween story "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

Answer: Ichabod Crane

Ichabod Crane encounters the legendary local ghost, the Headless Horseman, while leaving the town of Sleepy Hollow on Halloween.
10. What do you carve a pumpkin into at Halloween time?

Answer: Jack O'Lantern

Traditional Jack O'Lanterns are carved with faces: eyes, nose, mouth, etc. Also, neat are pumpkins carved with pictures, like a black cat on a picket fence or a witch flying across the moon. You can be very creative when carving pumpkins. Jack-o'-lantern is also the common name for the mushroom species Clitocybe illudens.
11. Disney's "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" tells the stories from two classic novels, "Wind in the Willows" and what other book?

Answer: Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was written by Washington Irving in the 1800s and has been the basis for many movies, including 1999's "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and 1922's "The Headless Horseman" starring Will Rogers.
12. Which night sky object is always creepiest when full on Halloween?

Answer: moon

A full moon is a wonderful sight. Legend has it that werewolves come out when the moon is full, yet another spooky addition to Halloween.
13. What Tim Burton movie blends two holidays, Halloween and Christmas?

Answer: Nightmare Before Christmas

This great movie from 1993 is about Jack Skellington, the King of Halloween who accidentally discovers Christmas Town and decides to take over Christmas for that year. This movie features the voice talents of Danny Elfman as the singing voice of Jack Skellington.
14. Along with black, what other color is considered a Halloween color?

Answer: orange

Orange is used as a Halloween color mostly because pumpkins are traditional Halloween decorations.
15. What orange squash is a symbol of Halloween, often seen carved with candles inside?

Answer: pumpkin

Jack O'Lanterns are a traditional part of Halloween, but many people decorate with uncarved pumpkins and other gourds. Every year Linus (from the "Peanuts" cartoon) spends the night in a pumpkin patch waiting for the "Great Pumpkin" to come and bring him gifts.
16. What bony creatures rattle around the cemeteries at Halloween time?

Answer: skeletons

A skeleton is defined as "the internal structure composed of bone and cartilage that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism" (from Dictionary.com). There is something spooky about a creature with no organs, muscles or skin.
17. What do you say at the door when you are out asking for candy? (no hyphens!)

Answer: trick or treat

A simple idea, you tell people to give you a treat, or you will play a trick on them. The origins of this tradition date back to Celtic times when people made offerings of foods and sweets to the spirits on All Hallows Eve. People would dress up as roaming spirits to avoid being haunted by real spirits.
18. What creature sucks your blood by biting you on the neck?

Answer: vampire

Vampires are creatures of myth and legend. The most famous is Dracula, the character of a novel by Bram Stoker. Vampires have also become literary characters in Ann Rice's "Interview With a Vampire" (also a 1994 movie starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst).
19. Which is NOT a person who knows spells and magic?

Answer: weatherman

These terms are defined as follows: Witch: a woman claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.
Warlock: a male witch, sorcerer, wizard, or demon.
Wiccan: a polytheistic Neo-Pagan nature religion inspired by various pre-Christian western European beliefs, whose central deity is a mother goddess and which includes the use of herbal magic and benign witchcraft.
Weatherman: a man who reports and forecasts the weather (no magic involved). (All definitions from Dictionary.com)
20. What Z word is a term for creatures that are animated dead?

Answer: zombies

Zombies are just one more scary Halloween monster. Some of the greatest are from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, where they all start dancing around.
Source: Author bookworm78

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