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Which two religious traditions can American Halloween trace its roots to?

What was a previous name for Halloween?

Cultural Halloween Trivia

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1
What was a previous name for Halloween?
Hallowtide
All Saints Day
Dia de Los Muertos
Diwali
2
Which two religious traditions can American Halloween trace its roots to?
Celtic and Muslim
Mexican traditionalist and Christian
Muslim and Chinese tradionalist.
Celtic and Christian
3
The concept of Halloween was invented in America
True
False
4
How many countries celebrate Halloween?
25
Almost all of them
50
1
5
In the Middle Ages, the old tradition of "trick or treating" was...
Rich people knocking on doors to offer prayer.
Poor people knocking on doors to be given money.
Rich people knocking on the doors of the poor to give them gifts
Poor people knocking on doors exchanging prayers for beer and food.
6
What Christian Holiday is the day AFTER Halloween
Yom Kippur
All Hallows Eve
Reformation Day
All Saints Day
7
Cultural Roots for trick or treating can be traced all the way back to....
1st century Middle East
Middle Ages in Europe
1800s in Europe
The time of the Salem Witch trials in America
8
When did Trick-or-Treating become common practice in the US?
1930s
2000s
1600s
1950s
9
What other global Holiday is always celebrated in October?
Dia de los Muertos in Mexico - Paying homage to ancestors who have passed.
DIwali - Hindu celebration of light
Sahmain-Celtic Holiday where the vale between spirit world and ours is thin
10
What belief did the Celtic and Christian Holidays NOT have in common?
It was a day to honor the dead.
It was a day to pay tribute to the darker spirits.
Oct 31 was a day where the vail between spirit world and earth was thin