HALLOWEEN TRIVIA - Comprehension

1. When is Halloween celebrated?

It is celebrated on the 31st of October.

2. What do people do to celebrate?

They dress up as witches, ghosts, devils or famous people.

3. What is “trick or treating”?

Children dress up, knock on people’s door and if they don’t give them treats

they play tricks on them.

4. What do American teenagers do to celebrate?

They go to costume parties, watch horror movies, tell ghost stories or visit

haunted houses.

5. What is the “Jack O’Lantern”?

It’s a pumpkin cut to form a face with a candle inside.

6. What is a “Scavenger hunt”?

It’s a game where teams have to collect things. It’s often played at night with

torches.

7. What is “apple bobbing”?

It’s a game where you use your teeth to take out apples from a basin of water.

HALLOWEEN TRIVIA - Comprehension

8. What is a common Halloween food?

A common food is the “toffee apple”: it’s an apple covered in sticky sugar

syrup

9. What are Halloween’s origins? Explain.

Halloween has celtic origins. For the celts October 31st was the start of

winter. They associated this period with death and believed that the dead

roamed the living world.

10. Do Christians celebrate Halloween?

No, they don’t. They celebrate “All saints day” on the 1st of November.

11. What’s the meaning of the word “Halloween”?

It means “All hallow even”.

12. What is the capital of Halloween?

It’s Anoka, a city in Minnesota (in the USA).

13. What happens in America during Halloween?

There are parades and people dress up.

14. Name a Halloween superstition.

If you see a spider on Halloween means that a loved one is watching over

you. If a flame turns blue there is a spirit. Crowns are bad omens.