OCmike's Humpday Challenge (Halloween Edition)

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:14 pm

OCmike's Humpday Challenge

Rules do not apply today, since most of the questions are a bitch. Answer as many as you like. Have at it, fuckos.

1: Who first celebrated what we've come to know as Halloween?

2: The tradition of dressing up started because______

3: The celebration of Samhain is to honor _____

4: The Romans called Halloween Pomona Day. Who or what was Pomona?

5: Halloween falls on the night before_____?

6: True or False: trick-or-treating developed during the 1930s as a means to control young people's Halloween night pranks

7: Frankenstein was written by ______?

8: True or False: 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.

9: Ghosts and spirits captured on audiotape is called_____?

10: True or False: 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.

11: The Wicca Sabbat related to Halloween is called ______?

12: True or False: In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses

13: Poltergeist are best described as?

14: True or False: A haunting is a kind of 'recording' of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield

15: True or False: 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.

16: On film, ghost show up as an ¬___ ?

17: A device generally used to 'contact the spirits' is the __?

18: True or False: 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
19: When did people start to have Halloween parties?

20: True or False: Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead

21: The Flying Dutchman is rumored to be sailing where?

22: Another name for Halloween is ______?

23: True or False: 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.

24: Another nickname for Dracula, in real life, was ______?

25: Where does Dr. Frankenstein chase his monster to?

A.C. Crut · Post by **A.C. Crut** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:19 pm

3: The celebration of Samhain is to honor _____

BrewCosgrove

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:19 pm

24 - Vlad the Impaler

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:19 pm

OCmike wrote:7: Frankenstein was written by ______?

Most of them are easy, but I'll take the reeeallllly easy one -- Mary Shelley.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:20 pm

A.C. Crut wrote:3: The celebration of Samhain is to honor _____

BrewCosgrove

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:22 pm

18: True

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:26 pm

23: True or False: 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.

True. And it was consumed by KFC Paul in 12 minutes.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:30 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:23: True or False: 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.

True. And it was consumed by KFC Paul in 12 minutes.

It was later deep fried, if you want to get technical.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:14 pm

5: All Saints Day

Terry in Crapchester · Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:26 pm

22: Another name for Halloween is ______?

All Hallow's Eve. (Btw, the word Halloween is actually a corruption of this phrase.)

atomicdad · Post by **atomicdad** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:19 pm

21. Bikini Bottom

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:44 pm

OCmike wrote:OCmike's Humpday Challenge

Rules do not apply today, since most of the questions are a bitch. Answer as many as you like. Have at it, fuckos.

24: Another nickname for Dracula, in real life, was ______?

Count Chocula or Bela Lugosi?

Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia?

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:26 pm

21 - Around the Cape of Good Hope?

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:33 pm

OCmike wrote:4: The Romans called Halloween Pomona Day. Who or what was Pomona?

The goddess of the harvest.

Cosmo Kramer · Post by **Cosmo Kramer** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:13 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:23: True or False: 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.

True. And it was confused as KFC Paul in 12 minutes.

Mr. Schwump · Post by **Mr. Schwump** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:30 pm

Question #13, I know the answer is a trilogy of lame
horror movies made back in the 1980's. I saw the first one at the Mayberry Movie House with Juanita from the diner and I had nightmares for a week. Juanita did that to me.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:57 pm

13. loud ghost

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:02 pm

the queen mary is in long beach. wtf they do with it or who got dead on it, I don't know, so, I'll go with

maybe

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:58 pm

8- Celtic first day of "winter". Halloween is a cross quarter date.

Read more about it here---

http://www.spaceweather.com/

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:04 pm

Question # 8 was true/false. Uh...

Jay in Phoenix · Post by **Jay in Phoenix** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:13 am

25: Where does Dr. Frankenstein chase his monster to? -

An old mill, where he gets wasted.

That is...if you're talking abou the original movie, not the book.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:27 am

6. true?

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:28 am

OCmike wrote:
17: A device generally used to 'contact the spirits' is the __?

Shrubber's Phone.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:00 am

OCmike wrote:The tradition of dressing up started because______

At some point, Foreskin would have to take his wife out in public.

True or False: Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead

D) All of the above

Sin, Wolfman

Louis Cyphre · Post by **Louis Cyphre** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:18 am

3. the dead or the end of the Celtic year

9. EVP: electronic voice phenomena

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:24 am

mvscal wrote:
RadioFan wrote:
OCmike wrote:4: The Romans called Halloween Pomona Day. Who or what was Pomona?
The goddess of the harvest.
That would be Ceres and her entourage.

Are you sure you don't mean Ceresimo his band of Quadra angles?

Pray for them.

HockeyMom · Post by **HockeyMom** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:12 am

OCmike wrote:OCmike's Humpday Challenge

Rules do not apply today, since most of the questions are a bitch. Answer as many as you like. Have at it, fuckos.

1: Who first celebrated what we've come to know as Halloween?

2: The tradition of dressing up started because______

3: The celebration of Samhain is to honor _____

4: The Romans called Halloween Pomona Day. Who or what was Pomona?

5: Halloween falls on the night before_____?

1. The Druids first celebrated what we come to know as Halloween.
2. People wanted to scare away evil spirits.
3. Samhain means end of summer and was celebrated to usher in the new season.
4. Pamona is the goddess of fruits and gardens.
5. Halloween falls the night before All Saint's Day.

quacker backer · Post by **quacker backer** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:16 am

RadioFan wrote:
mvscal wrote:
RadioFan wrote: The goddess of the harvest.
That would be Ceres and her entourage.
Are you sure you don't mean Ceresimo his band of Quadra angles?

Pray for them.

rack o ween

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:03 pm

8. Bob Dylan

The Whistle Is Screaming · Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:27 pm

Martyred wrote:
OCmike wrote:
17: A device generally used to 'contact the spirits' is the __?
Shrubber's Phone.

Rack it!

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:59 pm

10: True

Also #19. Usually on October 31st, unless that falls on a Sunday, then many people have them on Saturday Night.

sin,

wolfman.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:21 pm

8. Bud Lite

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:30 pm

22. October 31st.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:46 pm

"Hump Day"? Just find the keys and let's drive on out of here.

-Cin

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:03 pm

This level of immaturity MUST end. Whitey Wagon and Paul will be conducting classes on how to better behave ourselves. And you can't do a FUCKING thing about it.

Terry in Crapchester · Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:08 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:This level of immaturity MUST end. Whitey Wagon and Paul will be conducting classes on how to better behave ourselves. And you can't do a FUCKING thing about it.

In that case, I'm expecting quite a few more IKYABWAI posts in the near future.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:09 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:This level of immaturity MUST end. Whitey Wagon and Paul will be conducting classes on how to better behave ourselves. And you can't do a FUCKING thing about it.

Exactly. This tomfoolery will not be tolerated!

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:26 pm

8. Smokin Joe Frazier

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:35 pm

OCmike wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:This level of immaturity MUST end. Whitey Wagon and Paul will be conducting classes on how to better behave ourselves. And you can't do a FUCKING thing about it.
Exactly. This tomfoolery will not be tolerated!

Word.

Next thing you know, people might start posting mean, hurtful things in here.

Jay in Phoenix · Post by **Jay in Phoenix** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:57 pm

RadioFan wrote:Word.

Next thing you know, people might start posting mean, hurtful things in here.

Huh? You mean that kind of thing actually happens here?

When did that start? You guys suck.

Sin,

KCFatoPaulass

T1B

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