Halloween Haunts
Before pumpkins became the iconic jack-o'-lantern, people in Ireland carved faces into a different vegetable. What was it?
What is Turnips
In The Great Gatsby, what is the name of the mysterious millionaire who throws lavish parties in hopes of attracting Daisy Buchanan?
Who is Jay Gatsby
In Bram Stoker's Dracula, what is the name of the English solicitor who travels to Transylvania and becomes Dracula's prisoner?
Who is Jonathan Harker.
You are in a dark room with one match. You have a candle, an oil lamp, and a fireplace. What do you light first?
What is the match
In the original Brothers Grimm version of Snow White, what do the Evil Queen's attendants bring back as proof that Snow White has been killed?
What are her lungs and liver? (Dark Ikr)
Before candy dominated Halloween, people in parts of Britain and Ireland went door-to-door asking for food in exchange for prayers for the dead. What was this custom called?
What is Souling
In To Kill a Mockingbird, what is the real name of the character everyone calls Boo?
Who is Arthur "Boo" Radley
In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, what substance does Dr. Jekyll use to transform himself into his darker alter ego?
What is a chemical potion or mixture, made using a particular salt.
A witch writes the word "EVIL" on a mirror. When you look at the reflection, what word do you see if you read the letters in reverse order?
In the original tale of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, what happens to the mermaid if she fails to win the prince's love and marry him?
What is she dissolves.
The name "jack-o'-lantern" is tied to an Irish legend about a man who tricked the Devil and was condemned to wander with a glowing coal. The man's nickname was _______ Jack.
What is Stingy
In The Odyssey, what false name does Odysseus give the Cyclops Polyphemus so that his companions' cries for help will confuse the other Cyclopes?
What is Nobody/No one
In Dracula, the story is told through a collection of diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, and other records. What narrative technique is this? (English majors rise up!)
What is an epistolary narrative
A haunted book contains 100 pages. A ghost tears out every page numbered with a multiple of 3. How many pages are torn out if the book is numbered from 1 to 100 and each page has one number?
What are 33 pages
In the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, what do the stepsisters do to try to make their feet fit the golden slipper?
What is one cuts off her toe, and the other cuts off part of her heel.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Halloween in America was often associated with pranks so disruptive that communities began organizing parties and activities to curb the vandalism. What nickname did newspapers later give this widespread problem?
The “Halloween problem.”
n Jane Eyre, what is the name of the woman secretly kept in Thornfield Hall's attic?
Who is Bertha Mason
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was inspired in part by a famous ghost-story challenge during a summer stay near Lake Geneva. Which two fellow writers were part of that gathering with Shelley?
Who are Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
You have three books: one red, one blue, and one green. You must arrange them on a shelf. How many different orders are possible?
What is six
In the original story of Rumpelstiltskin, what does the queen do to discover the mysterious little man's name before the final deadline?
She sends messengers to search for his name, and one discovers him dancing around a fire while singing his own name.
In a Halloween divination custom sometimes called a "dumb supper," participants ate in silence in hopes of discovering information about whom?
Who is their future spouse or romantic partner.
In Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, what is the name of the fictional town founded by José Arcadio Buendía?
In The King in Yellow, a 1895 collection of stories by Robert W. Chambers, what is the name of the fictional play whose reading is associated with madness and terror?
What is The King in Yellow
A prisoner is told: “If you tell a lie, you will be hanged. If you tell the truth, you will be beheaded.” What can the prisoner say to create a logical contradiction and make the punishment impossible to carry out consistently?
“I will be hanged.” If the authorities hang him, he told the truth, so he should be beheaded. If they behead him, he lied, so he should be hanged. (idek bro)
In the original Brothers Grimm version of Rapunzel, what does Rapunzel say that reveals she has been visited by others?
"Frau Gothel, tell me why it is that you are more difficult to pull up than is the young prince, who will be arriving any moment now?"