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Quiz: Test your knowledge of all things Halloween

Trick or treat?

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From where is the tradition of bobbing for apples thought to have originated?
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The Shang Dynasty
Ancient Rome

Ancient Egypt
The Inca Empire
In folklore, if a girl put the apple she bobbed underneath her pillow what would she dream of?
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Dead relatives
Apples

A future husband
Equal pay
In medieval Europe seeing an owl on Halloween meant what was coming?
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Danger
The plague

Brexit
Zombies
What was Bram Stoker’s original name for Count Dracula?
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Count Orlok
Count Alucard

Count Von Count
Count Wampyr
What famous magician lost his life on Halloween in 1926?
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Harry Blackstone, Sr.
Harry Houdini

PT Selbit
Merlin
What year was the original Halloween released?
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1975
1984

1978
1980
Mike Myer's trademark appearance was made by painting a $1.98 mask of which famous person?
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PA
Jimmy Carter
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William Shatner

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John Travolta
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Mike Myers
In what year was the first of The Simpsons Halloween special episodes, Treehouse of Horror, broadcast?
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1989
1990

1991
1992
What was the original name for the movie Hocus Pocus?
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The First Witches Club
Hex and the City: The Movie

Halloween House
Bad Witches
What Addams Family lyric comes next? "So put a witch's shawl on, A broomstick you can crawl on..."
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We're gonna put a spell on
We're gonna play a trick on

We're gonna play a call on
We're gonna build a wall
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Bow down, witches
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Boo-yah!
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Lazy bones
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