Halloween Trivia
Halloween Movies
Zombies
Halloween Around the World
Halloween in Canada
100
The most popular Halloween candy in the USA, in 2023.
What are Reese's peanut butter cups?
100
The first horror movie to be nominated for an Academy Award?
What is The Exorcist, which earned 10 Oscar nominations in 1974.
100
This 2004 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright is known for its unique blend of humor and horror, featuring characters battlign a zombie outbreak in a small town.
What is Shaun of the Dead?
100
The first written account of children using the phrase "trick-or-treat" on Halloween occured in this country.
What is Canada?
Here is the excerpt from the Lethbridge Herald, Alberta:
"The youthful tormentors were at back door and front demanding edible plunder by the word “trick or treat” to which the inmates gladly responded and sent the robbers away rejoicing."
100
he name of the eerie, ghostly light phenomenon often reported in the Gaspe Peninsula, believed to be the spirit of a drowned lantern carrier.
Who is La Chasse-galerie or The Flying Canoe?
200
In the Halloween poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, the raven repeatedly says this when it visits the narrator.
What is "nevermore?"
200
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
What is The Thing?
200
This 2016 zombie film features a father and his estranged daughter trapped on a speeding train with other passengers during a zombie outbreak in South Korea.
What is Train to Busan?
200
The fictional town in which the events of Friday the 13th film series primarily takes place.
What is Crystal Lake.
200
The #1 Halloween costume in the US, 2023.
What is Barbie?
300
This candy was originally called "chicken feed" when it was first created in the late 19th century.
What is candy corn?
300
The highest grossing Stephen King film adaptation to date.
What is the 2017 remake of "It"?
300
The location where survivors seek refuge from a zombie outbreak in the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
What is a shopping mall?
300
What "bio-exorcist" is the 1988 Tim Burton movie is named after.
Who is Beetlejuice?
300
This song, written by former elementary teacher Matt Maxwell in 1981, was certified gold in Canada (sold over 40,000 copies) and was sung by many French Immersion students across Canada. It was written to inspire his students to get excited about learning French.
What is "C'est l'Halloween!"
400
This famous magician died on Halloween in 1926.
Who was Harry Houdini?
400
This 1986 sci-fi horror film co-written by David Cronenberg stars Jeff Goldblum and was shot in Toronto.
What is The Fly?
400
The name of the corporation responsible for the creation of the T-virus, which leads to the zombie outbreak in the video game and film series "Resident Evil."
What is the Umbrella Corporation?
400
The percentage of Americans who pretend they're not home on Halloween.
What is 21%? (One in five adults according to a 2021 YouGov poll.)
400
This beloved Canadian actress played the role of Delia, one of the unwelcome living owners of a haunted house in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988.)
Who is Catherine O'Hara?
500
This Halloween spending category was expected to hit a record high in 2022.
What is pet spending, which was estimated to top more than $700 million (National Retail Foundation.)
500
This horror movie was the first American film ever to show a toilet on screen.
What is Psycho?
500
The nickname often used to refer to the zombies that roam the post-apocalyptic world in the TV series The Walking Dead.
What are "walkers."
500
This country holds the record for the largest pumpkin ever grown.
What is Italy? Grown in 2021, the pumpkin weighed in at a whopping 1226 kg (just shy of 2702 lbs.) and measured 11 feet 8 inches in diameter.
500
This percentage of Canadians said they would be handing out candy this year, on Halloween.
What is 48%?