Spooky Songs
This 1996 song is all about bones that boogie and send shivers down your spine!
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What is Spooky Scary Skeletons?
This creature will transform from a person into a furry, fang-toothed, four-legged foe under a full moon!
It has been represented in books and movies such as Harry Potter (think Professor Lupin), the show/movie Teen Wolf, and Twilight (Team Jacob!)
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What is a werewolf?
This movie follows a young girl in a yellow rainjacket as she explores a frightful world of button-eyes, puppets, and Other Mothers.
Hint: not Clementine, not Caroline, but...
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What is Coraline?
Beware of anything that crawls, flies, bites, stings, and itches-this staff member is afraid of ALL bugs!
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Who is Ms. Melanie?
When you are going door-to-door on October 31st dressed in a costume, you are supposed to say this to whoever answers the door!
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What is "trick or treat?"
I ain't afraid of no ghost! This song featured as the theme song for a 1984 movie of the same name.
Lyric hint: Who you gonna call?
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What is the theme song from Ghostbusters?
Author Bram Stoker created this blood-sucker all the way back in 1897, but this Transylvanian terror continues to haunt popular culture (and is the O.G. vampire!)
More recently, he was a friendly but fang-toothed manager (nicknamed Drac) in a series of animated movies about a monstrous hotel!
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Who is Count Dracula?
This movie follows the three singers of the vocal group Huntrix as they try to finally quash the threat of demons taking people's souls! It's soundtrack won it a GOLDEN Globe, hint hint...
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What is KPop Demon Hunters?
Although this staff member likes to ride roller coasters, high-up heights give them the heebie-jeebies! This staff member is afraid of heights.
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Who is Ms. Fahima?
If you have ever carved a pumpkin with a spooky face and stuck a candle inside, then you have created this (the name comes from Irish folklore)!
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What is a jack-o'-lantern?
Not Griller, not Chiller, but the biggest Halloween song of all time, sung by the King of Pop, MJ himself!
Lyric hint: Caus' this is...
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What is Thriller?
IT'S ALIVE! This undead creature made of sewn-together body parts first came to life in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel about a mad scientist who wants to create life.
Nowadays, you'd recognize his large green face, frowny mouth, black hair, and gigantic size anywhere.
Note: The name of the doctor or the name of the monster will count!
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Who is Frankenstein/Frankenstein's Monster?
This 2012 movie started a franchise all about monsters who run a wild, wacky, creepy resort! The hotel's owner Drac is mentioned elsewhere in this quiz, but the movie also stars characters such as Mavis, Murray the Mummy, Mr. Fly, and... Jonathan!
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What is Hotel Transylvania?
This staff member is afraid of those nasty, creepy, crawly creatures known as cockroaches!
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Who is Ms. Shantal?
This is the other, longer (three word) name that Halloween is sometimes called, especially way back in ye olden days!
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What is All Hallow's Eve?
This eerie 1983 song by one-hit-wonder Rockwell (featuring MJ!) tells the story of someone who thinks they're being followed and observed.
Lyric hint: I always feel like...
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What is Somebody's Watching Me?
This bizzare family of friendly freaks dates all the way back to 1938, but is still incredibly popular! They started as characters in a magazine, but have also starred in a series of movies from the 1990s all the way to 2021 (plus a TV show mentioned later!).
Hint: members of this family include Cousin Itt, Lurch, Thing, Gomez, and Morticia!
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Who are The Addams Family?
The daughter of a creepy family stars in this TV series, soon to have a 3rd season! Played by Jenna Ortega, her viral dance moves helped make her show the #1 most watched show on Netflix in 2022.
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What is Wednesday/who is Wednesday Addams?
MTA riders beware! This staff member's greatest fear is the raucus rumble of... the subway!?
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Who is Mr. Swad?
People accused of being this were put on trial way back in the 1600s during a series of famous trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
Hint: think pointy black hats, cats, and flying brooms!
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What is a witch?
WARNING: This question requires unc status ball knowledge
This song comes to you all the way from 1962! It's all about creepy creatures coming together for a nighttime dance party.
Lyric hint: It was a graveyard smash, it was a...!
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What is The Monster Mash?
This haunted horse-rider has terrorized the small New York town of Sleepy Hollow since 1820. He's less than an hour away from Q300 by car, or three hours by horse! Sometimes depicted with a pumpkin atop his neck, sometimes with nothing there at all.
Hint: not the Eerie Equestrian, not the Creepy Cowboy, not the Decapitated Donkey-rider, but the...
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Who is the Headless Horseman?
This is Halloween! This is Halloween!
This movie either counts as a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie, depending on when you watch it. It follows Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town as he tries to kidnap Santa Claus!
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What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This staff member is claustrophobic-that means they don't like small spaces, and they are especially afraid of being BURIED ALIVE!!!
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Who is Ms. Tanzania!?
This former top-hat-wearing president's ghost is rumored to still haunt the White House, 161 years after his untimely death (do some math)!
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Who is Abraham Lincoln?