Jack O Lantern's Huge Halloween Trivia Challenge

By Jonathan Ozanne

Jack O Lantern's Huge Halloween Trivia Challenge has 132 multiple choice trivia questions (and answers). The questions cover subjects like candy, trick-or-treating, scary creatures, horror movies, and the history of Halloween. This book is a greatly expanded version of Jack o' Lantern's Halloween Trivia Challenge. The 132 questions in this book include those in the original book, plus about 65 new questions. This book provides a great way to have some fun and learn something new about Halloween.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan Ozanne
• Release date: Oct 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519997852

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INTRODUCTION

This book is an updated version of Jack o’ Lantern’s Halloween Trivia Challenge.  This book includes that book, plus about 65 new questions for a total of 132 questions .  The new questions provide a fuller picture of Halloween and include new categories about horror movies, scary books, and candy.  I was pleased with the first book, and this one is clearly even better.

Halloween is a holiday that is very popular not just among children but also among grown-ups.  Many people like Halloween but few people know very much about the history of it.  Through trivia questions (and answers) this book explores the history of Halloween from ancient times up to the present.

Halloween is like Christmas and Easter in that it has a pre-Christian history, became part of a Christian holiday, and in the 21st century has a secular twin holiday that is observed by many practicing Christians and non-Christians alike.  Many of the secular customs have roots in ancient customs.

This book can be used in a couple of different ways, it can be used to learn about Halloween and it can be used to play a competitive or cooperative group game where one person reads questions and others take turns guessing the answer.

I hope you have as much fun answering these questions as I had researching and writing them!

Good luck!

Jonathan Ozanne

TRICK-OR-TREAT

[1]  What day is Halloween?

A.  October 30

B.  October 31

C.  November 1

[1]  B.  Halloween is October 31.

[2]  True or False.  Children wear costumes while trick-or-treating on Halloween?

[2]  True.  Children wear costumes while trick-or-treating on Halloween.

[3]  What United Nations organization collects money on Halloween?

A.  U.N.C.L.E.

B.  U.N.I.C.E.F.

C.  S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

[3]  B.  U.N.I.C.E.F.  (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) collects money on Halloween.  The other choices are fictitious spy agencies.

[4]  In America, what do children collect while going door-to-door trick-or-treating on Halloween?

A.  Flowers

B.  Bread

C.  Candy

[4]  C.  Children hope to collect candy while trick-or-treating on Halloween.  A small number of homes give out apples or boxes of raisins but most give out candy.

[5]  Trick-or-treating often takes place after dark.  Many front porches are illuminated by porch lights and by pumpkins that have been hollowed out, a face or design carved into them, and then a candle or light source is put inside them.  What are these carved pumpkins called?

A.  Punko-lights

B.  Jack-o’-lanterns

C.  Veggie-torches

[5]  B.  Carved pumpkins with lights in them are known as jack-o’-lanterns.

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