Each day in October a Halloween trivia question will be posted in our classroom. Use reference books, library books and the internet to help you answer them. Write your answer in the square that matches the number on the question. At the end of the month, you will receive one point for each correct answer. These points will be used to "buy" fun Halloween treats such as pencils, bookmarks, stickers, candy, etc.
A question a day keeps the goblins away!
1. On What day of the week will Halloween fall this year? In 2010? In 2011?
2. What does the word LYCANTHROPE have to do with Halloween?
3. List at least 3 Halloween words that begin with "W".
4. Write an anagram for each of these words: spider, owl, bat, night.
5. List 8 "scary" words.
6. List at least 6 words (of 3 or more letters each) using the letters in PUMPKINS
7. To what group of animals does the owl belong? Give 2 interesting facts about owls.
8. What is a superstition?
9. List 3 common superstitions.
10. About how many bones are in the human body?
11. Who wrote the book Dracula? On whose life is the book based?
12. To what group of animals do spiders belong? Give 2 other facts about spiders.
13. What does nocturnal mean? Name 2 nocturnal animals.
14. Who was Mary Shelley?
15. List at least 5 uses for a pumpkin besides carving it to make a jack-o-lantern.
16. To what group of animals do bats belong? Give 2 other interesting facts about bats.
17. Who was Boris Karloff? What does he have to do with Halloween?
18. These legendary creatures (goblins, brownies, trolls, pixies) are also known as what?
19. Where is the graveyard of the Atlantic located? How did it get its name?
20. What is sucrose? What does it have to do with Halloween?