Hallowe’en in Ireland: A Quiz

Once upon-a-time, on Hallowe’en in Ireland:

1. Which of the following did you never find inside a brack?
    a) Coin
    b) Ring
    c) Cloth
    d) Plastic bag

2. What did you use to collect whatever your neighbours would give you?
    a) A Plastic Pumpkin Basket
    b) A Shopping Trolley
    c) Your Brother’s Hollowed-Out Head
    d) A Plastic Bag

3. Which of the following did you typically wear under/over a combination of your mother’s and father’s old clothes?
    a) Kangaroo Jacket
    b) Sioux Headdress
    c) Rented Costume
    d) Plastic Bag

4. What did you say at the doors of every house you knocked at?
    a) Trick or Treat
    b) Help The Hallowe’en Party
    c) Can We Have Our Ball Back?
    d) Nothing, you just held out your plastic bag

5. Which was the greatest treat to find in your stash?
    a) An Orange
    b) A Pomegranate
    c) A Brazil Nut
    d) A Fun-Size Milky Way

6. What was the worst thing to come through your letter-box?
    a) A Sparkler
    b) A Banger
    c) A Stink Bomb
    d) You boarded up your letter box on Oct 10

7. What smell would forever thereafter remind you of Hallowe’en Night?
    a) Burning Rubber
    b) Burning Plastic
    c) Burning Petrol
    d) Stink Bomb

8. What did you collect the most of?
    a) Peanuts
    b) Hazlenuts
    c) Wholenuts
    d) Car Tyres

9. How did you decorate the outside of your house to entertain and frighten the other kids?
    a) Set Fire To The Bushes
    b) Put up Papal Bunting, and set fire to it
    c) With Your Brother’s Headless Body
    d) With A Plastic Bag Masquerading as a Ghost

10. What did you carve your Jack O’Lantern from?
    a) A Pumpkin
    b) A Turnip
    c) A Potato
    d) You were still working on last year’s turnip

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3 Responses to “Hallowe’en in Ireland: A Quiz”

DMC responds: October 31st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Seriously,
lol.
you fecking genius.

I could even smell the plastic and make
out the letters L O N D I S in my mind.
RuthSeeley [TweetBack] responds: October 22nd, 2009 at 9:07 am
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I used to wonder why Aunt Pearl would bake coins into birthday cakes - must have been a ‘brack’ echo/revamp. Brack sounds lovely.
ElaineEdwards [TweetBack] responds: October 22nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
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Just took your Halloween quiz. Funny. I feel very old now. But I’m smiling. Only part of the reason is because I’m leaving work.