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At this moment, the club is holding its annual Super Sci-Fi Book Sale at our downtown meeting locale. As such, there is no interactive ZOOM-chat component included with this month’s MonSFFA event.
But for our out-of-town club members and friends, we do offer today, here online, a few Halloween-themed items of interest, culled from our meeting archives of these past few years.
The Horror, The Horror…
For your perusal, then, we begin with this Halloween Quiz. Good luck! We’ll run the answers in our closing post, today at 4:00PM.
1) Halloween is the day before which holiday?
2) The tradition of making Jack-o-Lanterns to ward off evil spirits is thousands of years old. Which vegetable were they originally made from?
3) According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what will you see?
4) From which region in the world do pumpkins originate?
5) Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?
6) Transylvania is a region in which country?
7) Halloween has its origins in which ancient Celtic festival?
8) Which actor played Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
9) Is a pumpkin a fruit or vegetable?
10) What is the significance of seeing a spider on Halloween?
11) Which country celebrates the Day of the Dead starting at midnight on October 31?
12) According to superstition, a person born on Halloween has what particular ability?
13) Who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas?
14) “Don’t be afraid. I’m going to give you the choice I never had.” Which vampire spoke these words?
15) How many people were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials?
16) Every Halloween, Charlie Brown helps his friend Linus wait for which character to appear?
17) What do people “bob” for on Halloween?
18) Who is said to haunt the White House Rose Garden?
19) Pumpkins can be orange, white, green, or what other colour?
20) In the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how many people are killed with a chainsaw?
21) What’s the body-count in the film Halloween?
22) In which year was the movie Freaks made?
23) In the original Alien film, how many alien eggs were made for the egg chamber inside the downed spacecraft?
24) How many Oscar nominations did Psycho receive?