Vocabulary
Expressions
History
Traditions
Monsters
Movies
100

What do you call a person who can turn into a wolf during the full moon?

werewolf

100

What expression describes feeling extremely frightened, as if a chill ran down your back?

send shivers down my spine

100

Who started the tradition of halloween?

a) The Romans

b) The Celts

c) The Vikings

b) The Celts

100

What do people traditionally carve during Halloween?

pumpkins 

100

Which animal is often associated with vampires and halloween?

bats

100

Name the title of this movie.

It

200

What word describes a person who practices magic and is often associated with Halloween?

witch

200

What phrase would you use to describe being startled and jumping in shock?

Jumped out of my skin

200

Which country did Halloween originally come from?

a) The USA

b) Australia

c) Ireland

c) Ireland

200

What do children in the U.S. and other countries ask for when they go from door to door?

candy

200

What is the name of the famous vampire that lives in Transylvania?

Dracula

200

What movie features a killer who wears a mask inspired by a painting by Edvard Munch?

Scream

300

What’s the name of the box where a vampire sleeps?

coffin

300

What does the phrase “it’s a ghost town” mean?

A place that is very empty or abandoned

300

What did people believe happened during the night of the 31st October?

people believed that the boundary between the world of the living and the dead thinned, allowing spirits and ghosts of the dead to return to Earth.

300

What color are witches traditionally associated with?

black

300

Which monster rises from the dead and eats human flesh?

zombie

300

Which horror movie character haunts people’s dreams and has a glove with knives?

Freddy Krueger

400

What is the term for a long stick that witches are said to fly on?

broom

400

What is the expression that means you become extremely pale after receiving shocking news?

as white as a sheet

400

What was the purpose of wearing costumes during the original Halloween festival?

scaring away ghosts and evil spirits

400

In which country do people celebrate Halloween by decorating graves and offering food to the dead?

Mexico

400

What is this family's name?

Addams Family

400

What’s the name of the killer doll in the horror movie franchise that started in 1988?

"Chucky"

500

What is a carved pumpkin with a light inside called?

jack-o'-lantern

500

What does the idiom “to have a skeleton in the closet” mean?

To have a hidden secret from the past

500

"Halloween" is the short form of the term ...

"All Hallow's Eve"

500

Which game is traditionally played during halloween parties? (involves apples)

bobbing for apples

500

Which famous monster is a reanimated corpse stitched together from different body parts in a Mary Shelley novel?

Frankenstein's monster

500

In which 1973 movie does a girl become possessed by a demon?

The Exorcist

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