Ria's answers for the halloween quiz contest

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General

Q1: Another name for Halloween is _______.
A1: All Hallows Eve or All Saints Day

Q2: How many bones does a skeleton have?
A2: Adults: 206 bones; Infants: 350 Bones

Q3: What device is used to contact the spirits?
A3: Ouija

Q4: Frankenstein was written by ______.
A4: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Q5: Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for trick or treaters. What candy bar was #1?
A5: Snicker bars  

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True/False

6. The largest pumpkin pie ever made was more than five feet in diameter and weighed more than 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, and 12 dozen eggs, and it took six hours to bake.
--->FALSE
7. Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead.
--->TRUE
8. All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day which is celebrated on November 1
--->TRUE
9. Only one species of bat out of almost 950, drink blood. It is the Vampire Bat that lives in Central and South America. And the blood it prefers is NOT human blood, but blood of cattle and birds.
--->FALSE
10. El día de los muertos(Day of the Dead), a fiesta observed in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking cultures on Nov. 1 shares some of its history and roots with Halloween.
--->TRUE
11. A haunting is a kind of 'recording' of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield.
--->TRUE
12. In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses.
--->TRUE
13. Once a celebrated luxury ocean liner, when it ended its sailing days the Queen Mary was purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1967 and transformed into a hotel. The most haunted area of the ship is the engine room where a 17-year-old sailor was crushed to death trying to escape a fire.
--->TRUE
14. Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, published in 1897, was based loosely on the real-life Vlad Dracula (1431-1476). He was a prince who actually did live in Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
--->TRUE
15. Trick-or-treating developed during the 1930s as a means to control young people's Halloween night pranks.
--->TRUE
16. Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
--->TRUE
17. Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.
--->TRUE
18. Black cats were once believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers.
--->TRUE