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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:46 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:07 pm
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Questions 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. 7. Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. 8. All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day which is celebrated on November 1 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. 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. 11. A haunting is a kind of 'recording' of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield. 12. In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses. 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. 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. 15. Trick-or-treating developed during the 1930s as a means to control young people's Halloween night pranks. 16. Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America. 17. Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first. 18. Black cats were once believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers.
Answers 6. true 7. true 8. true 9. true 10. false 11. true 12. true 13.true 14. true 15. true 16. true 17. true 18. true
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:43 pm
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