Trick or Treat Trivia Answers

Section One Questions (2 Points)
1) Which Halloween-related characters are said to be repelled by garlic?
Vampires

2) In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the Crust of pies, not the filling.

3) Pumpkins are 90% Water.
Delicious - M. Chaubey
Pump? - T. Walker
Magic - D. Joyce

4) What is the popular name for a spirit board or talking board used to contact the spirits?
A Ouija Board
It comes from the French and German words for yes. Oui=Yes and Ja=Yes. - P. Knobloch
I spoke to all of the spirits: Vodka, Rum, Whiskey, Gin... they told me to drink every time that Twilight girl takes a picture with her mouth open. - M. Chaubey
Weejee Boards - D. Field
Bullshit Boards! - T. Walker

5) A Samhainophobia refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of what?
A) Jack-o-Lanterns B) Halloween C) Trick-or-Treaters
Sam Hain was the name of a child notorious for terrorizing his neighborhood on Halloween, a sort of Dennis The Menace with toilet paper. - M. Chaubey

6) Why are the color black and orange associated with Halloween?
Orange is used to represent the harvest of crops, while black represents night and death.
It was either that or lavender and periwinkle, and that's just silly. - K. Snook
Orange for the flames of hell and black for the darkness of night. - C. Gottfried
Camouflage from Ghosts - M. Slattery
Halloween Cookies - R. Lumpkins
Orange for fall, pumpkins, oompaloompas, etc. Black for night, death, cats, witches, Obama, etc. - N. Gould
Red and Green were already taken. - D. Joyce

7) What are you doing if you're sticking your face in a bucket of water filled with apple?
Bobbing for Apples
Either bobbing for apples or being water boarded by an imbecile. - K. Snook

8) What are same of the alternated names for Halloween?
All Hallow's Eve, All Saint's Eve, Samhain
What about Trick-or-Treat Night?. - K. Snook
The Holiday-Formally-Known-As-A-Pagan-Harvest-Festival. It goes by the name The Holiday. - M. Chaubey

9) Halloween is the second largest grossing commercial holiday.

10) Who is the villain in The Nightmare on Elm Street movie series?
Freddy Kruger

11) Who wrote the original Frankenstein book? (Super Double Bogey Question!)
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley... she, Percey Shelley and Lord Byron were stuck in a house during a storm, and decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story. Mary won, thank you 12th grade British literature class. - M. Chaubey
Mrs. Frankenstein - C. Walker
Dean Knootz has written some new books, but they're rubbish. - T. Walker

12) Which scary Halloween-related characters have a vulnerability to silver bullets?
Werewolves
Werewolves, Michael Jackson and Michael J. Fox. - M. Chaubey

13) In 1584, after French explorer Jacques Cartier had explored the Saint Lawrence region of North America, he reported finding gros melons (large melons). What had Cartier found?
Pumpkins
Pun'kins! - M. Chaubey
Pumpkins... or Pamela Anderson, either is accepted as historical fact. - N. Gould
An episode of Baywatch. - D. Joyce

Bonus Questions (1 Point)
1) What do you do with your pumpkin when you're done with it?
Someone always steals mine, I guess that makes it a Hi-Jacked-o-Lantern. - P. Knobloch
Set it on fire and throw it in the neighbor's yard. - K. Snook
Forget to throw it away while it rots out front for weeks. - M. Chaubey
I try, in vein, every year, to plant a pumpkin patch with the seeds. - J. Gumm
Mush it up into a pie. - C. Gottfried
Let it rot on the window sill in my apartment and then leave it in the lobby of the Meridian Building III so drunk students can smash it all over the elevator. - D. Field
Ideally, you compost it. - S. Hibbard-Swanson
Use it as a door stop. - T. Walker
Recycle It - C. Walker
Eat the seeds. - M. Slattery
Make a pie. - R. Lumpkins
Throw it away after it has produced roasted pumpkin seeds and a glowing, eerie decoration. - W. Trueax
Smash it - N. Gould
Toss it in the yard to grow next year. - D. Joyce

2) What is celebrated the day after Halloween?
All Saint's Day, The Day of the Dead (Mexico)
All Hollow's Day? - M. Chaubey
November First - S. Hibbard-Swanson, C. Gottfried
The End of Daylight Savings - T. Walker

Kwan-stions (3 Points)
1) Who is the South Korean skating superstar who invited Michelle Kwan to skate in a show with her this summer?
A) Chen Lu B) Yuka Sato C) Yu-Na Kim
Kim Jong-Il - M. Chaubey
Kim is to Korea, as Patel in to Pakistan and Smith is to America. - C. Gottfried

2) What would Michelle Kwan be for Halloween?
Buffy the Vampire Skater - K. Snook
An Olympic Gold Medalist: A Tribute to the Supernatural - M. Chaubey
Slutty Figure Skater? - J. Gumm
A Witch - C. Gottfried
Carolina Kostner (she's Scary!) - D. Field
Obi-Kwan Kenobi - S. Hibbard-Swanson
Anything but a gold medal winning skater! - T. Walker
A pretty, pretty butterfly. - M. Slattery
How about... an ice skater? - R. Lumpkins
An Olympic gold medalist! - W. Trueax, D. Joyce
A sexy nurse - N. Gould
She would be wearing a gold medal. - C. Walker