Show:
Questions
Responses
Print
history
Jack o'lantern
trick or treat
Halloween parties
100
When is Halloween?
31st of October
100
Which country did Jack come from?
Ireland
100
What do children in the US do on Halloween?
They go trick or treating.
100
what do most US schools have?
A Halloween parade
200
Which word does "Halloween" come from?
All hallow's eve (allerhelgensaften)
200
What happened when Jack met the Devil?
He played tricks on him.
200
What do the neighbours give the children, when they knock on their doors?
A lot of candy
200
What is a popular Halloween game?
Bobbing the apples
300
Why did people in the old days put on scary costumes?
to frighten the evil spirits that walk the earth on All Hallow's Eve.
300
What did the Devil do, when Jack played tricks on him?
He banished him from hell and told him to walk the Earth forever.
300
What are most costumes like?
They are scary.
300
How do you play "Bobbing the apples"
you have to eat an apple from a container filled with water.
400
What happens if you don't give a treat?
You will have bad luck.
400
What did Jack steal from Hell?
A piece of coal
400
What happens if the candy is not wrapped in paper?
The children are told not to eat it.
400
What do students and teachers do at the Halloween parade?
They dress up and walk around the school
500
Since when has Halloween been celebrated?
Since long before Christ was born.
500
Why does Jack hold a carved turnip as a lantern?
to find a final place to rest.
500
How much candy did a little boy once get?
more than 6 kilos.
500
How do the parents decorate their houses so they look scary?
They put up tombstones in the front yard and skeletons in the trees.