Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) The Blackhawk Night Club was a legendary jazz mecca from 1949 - 1963. What city was it in?

2) These 7 states are named for various royalty.

3) How did the tradition of trick-or-treat start?

4) What city was the first to have paved streets?

Answers:

1) San Francisco

2) Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, both Carolinas and both Virginias

3) The tradition of going from door to door receiving food already existed in Britain and Ireland, in the form of souling, where children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes.[1] Guising — children disguised in costumes going from door to door for food and coins — also predates trick or treat, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.[2] While going from door to door in disguise has remained popular among Scots and Irish, the North American custom of saying "trick or treat" has recently become common. The activity is prevalent in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and northwestern and central Mexico. In the latter, this practice is called calaverita (Spanish for "little skull"), and instead of "trick or treat", the children ask ¿me da mi calaverita? ("can you give me my little skull?"); where a calaverita is a small skull made of sugar or chocolate.

4) Rome