Halloween
What date is Halloween celebrated on?
Answer: Oct 31
What is the Spanish name for Day of the Dead?
Answer: Día de los Muertos.
What do we call a spirit believed to haunt a place?
Answer: A ghost.
In Coco, what is the name of the boy who dreams of becoming a musician?
Answer: Miguel.
What do witches traditionally ride in Halloween stories?
Answer: A broomstick.
What vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns in Ireland before pumpkins became popular?
Answer: Turnips.
What colorful flowers are often used to decorate Day of the Dead altars?
Answer: Marigolds.
In what famous book and movie series do vampires and werewolves feud but eventually work together?
Answer: What is Twilight?
In Wednesday, what is the name of Wednesday Addams's disembodied hand companion?
Answer: Thing.
In Harry Potter, what spell produces light from the tip of a wand?
Answer: Lumos.
What is the name for a carved pumpkin with a face?
Answer: Jack-o’-lantern.
What country is most famously associated with Día de los Muertos celebrations?
Answer: What is Mexico?
According to a common superstition, breaking this object brings seven years of bad luck.
Answer: A mirror.
In Ghostbusters, what is the the giant mascot that terrorizes New York City made of?
Answer: The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
What is the name of the spell in Harry Potter that makes objects fly?
What is Wingardium Leviosa?
Which ancient Celtic festival is commonly associated with the origins of Halloween?
Answer: Samhain. (pronounced “sow-in”)
What sweet, decorated bread is traditionally made for Day of the Dead?
Pan de muerto (bread of the dead).
Davy Jones is the captain of this ship, which is said to be cursed and doomed to sail the seas forever
Answer: What is the Flying Dutchman?
What Michael Jackson music video features a famous dance performed by zombies?
Answer: What is Thriller?
In Macbeth, what do the three witches chant while preparing their magical potion?
What is “Double, double toil and trouble”?
Before trick-or-treating became common, what was the name of the tradition where people went door-to-door asking for food in exchange for prayers or songs?
Answer: Souling
Day of the Dead traditions combine Indigenous beliefs with traditions introduced by which European country?
Answer: Spain.
What do we call the study of ghosts and other supposedly supernatural phenomena?
Answer: Paranormal investigation (or parapsychology, depending on the context).
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, what is the name of the headless horseman’s famous target?
Ichabod Crane
In The Wizard of Oz, what does the Wicked Witch of the West famously say she’ll get after Dorothy’s house lands on her sister?
Answer: “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!”