How many can you solve? A three-choice trivia quiz about Halloween

potato

Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish, especially popular around Halloween. Its main ingredient is potatoes, combined with cabbage or kale and butter. Beloved as a home-style dish that warms you in the cold season, it’s also associated with a unique Halloween custom as a “luck-bringing” food, where items like rings or coins are hidden inside.

flour

In the UK, there’s a traditional Halloween game called “Flour Mountain.” You make a mountain out of flour, and everyone takes turns removing a little bit at a time; the person who collapses the mountain loses. Sometimes a sweet or a coin is placed on top, and the person who knocks it down gets to keep it. The thrill of that last moment is part of the game’s charm.

soul cake

Soul cakes are a traditional British confection, indispensable for Halloween and All Saints’ Day. Dating back to the Middle Ages, there was a custom called ‘souling,’ in which children and the poor went from house to house to receive soul cakes and prayed for the souls of the deceased. Because this practice is linked to the origins of Halloween, soul cakes remain cherished as a traditional treat.

cabbage

One of Scotland’s traditional Halloween customs is the “cabbage divination.” On Halloween, people go into a field blindfolded and pull up a cabbage at random. They then predict their future spouse or fortune based on the cabbage’s size and shape, the length of its roots, and the kind of soil clinging to it. It’s a unique custom that also reflects how familiar and commonplace cabbages once were.

garlic

The vegetable that vampires like Dracula are said to be weak against is garlic. This comes from old European legends and works, where garlic’s strong smell and components were believed to have protective, anti-evil powers. It became especially well known through the 19th-century novel Dracula, and it remains an essential motif in Halloween and vampire-related topics today.

Romania

Count Dracula’s homeland is the region of Transylvania in Romania. Dracula is a fictional vampire who appears in the novel Dracula, published in 1897 by the Irish author Bram Stoker, but the figure said to be his model is Vlad Țepeș, the Voivode of Wallachia in Romania. Even today, places like Bran Castle in Romania are also called Dracula’s Castle and are popular tourist attractions.

Apple

There is a saying that if you place an apple under your pillow on Halloween night and go to sleep, your future spouse will appear in your dreams. This is connected to the fact that apples have long been considered symbols of love, and it is a well-known piece of folk magic within Western Halloween traditions.