Who doesn't love Halloween? Who doesn't love a quiz? Who doesn't love a Halloween quiz?

1) On October 31, 2005, in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania, Scott Cully set what world record?

a) Carved a jack o'lantern the fastest
b) Jumped the greatest distance over a pumpkin patch
c) Grew the world's largest pumpkin
d) Carved the largest jack o'lantern

2) Stephen King didn't write Something Wicked This Way Comes. Who did?

a) Edgar Allen Poe
b) Mary Shelley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) Bram Stoker

3) Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of:

a) Guy Fawkes Day
b) The Day of the Dead
c) Oktoberfest
d) Samhain

4) Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger, Nightmare on Elm Street) starred in what 1977 movie with Henry Fonda and Susan Sarandon?

a) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
b) The Last of the Cowboys
c) Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West)
d) The Satan Murders

5) It was once believed that if an unmarried girl kept a silver sixpence and a rosemary herb beneath her pillow on Halloween night, she would likely dream of what?

a) How well her garden would do through the winter
b) The way she would die
c) Her future husband
d) The spirits of dead female relatives

6) Wiccaphobia is a fear of witches and witchcraft. Arachnophobia is a fear of spiders. Bacteriophobia is a fear of bacteria. What is Selenophobia?

a) A fear of the moon
b) A fear of the dark
c) A fear of women named Selena
d) A fear of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught

7) The Irish tradition of carving a lantern is centuries old. The Irish did not use pumpkins, and instead carved the more readily available:

a) Petrified wood
b) Turnips and Potatoes
c) Mummified remains of medium-sized animals from bogs
d) Cantaloupe and Watermelon

8) Which one of these urban legends is true?

a) Razors have been found in apples.
b) Halloween is the second-biggest U.S. holiday in terms of retail sales.
c) Ohio's famed "Chimera House" is a haunted attraction that's so scary, no one has ever completed the tour.
d) The Blair Witch Project is based on footage shot by three student filmmakers who mysteriously disappeared while making a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch.

9) Which of these is not a real place?