Halloween
What vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns in Ireland before pumpkins became popular?
Turnips
In A Nightmare on Elm Street which villain attacks people in their dreams?
Freddy Krueger
What type of vegetable do vampires hate?
Garlic
In the TV series Charmed, which of the three Halliwell sisters had the power to stop time?
Piper Halliwell
Which Michael Jackson song features zombies dancing in its iconic music video?
Thriller
What is the color order of a piece of candy corn, from the bottom to the top?
Yellow, orange, white
Which classic horror film from 1978 features a masked killer named Michael Myers?
"Halloween" (1978), directed by John Carpenter
According to Greek mythology, which three-headed dog guards the entrance to the Underworld?
Cerberus
Complete the following chant, normally said by witches: Double, double, toil and …?
Trouble
Fill in the missing word: "If there's something ______ in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?" (song "Ghostbusters")
strange
What is the most popular candy bought within the United States, including during the Halloween holidays?
In Monsters, Inc., what is the underlying corporate reason why the city of Monstropolis relies on the strategic, calculated harvesting of children's nighttime screams?
To generate clean electrical power for the city
In Jewish folklore, what creature is brought to life from clay and animated through mystical rituals?
A Golem
What is the last name of the three witches in Hocus Pocus?
Sanderson
Fill in the missing word: "This is Halloween, this is Halloween, ________ scream in the dead of night." (from Nightmare Before Christmas)
pumpkins
90% of parents admit to doing this around Halloween
Sneaking candy from their kids' Halloween bags
In Coraline, the insidious 'Other Mother' tempts Coraline with an idyllic parallel universe. What must Coraline do to remain there permanently?
Sew buttons over her eyes
What creature from Irish folklore wails to announce an impending death in a family?
the Banshee
In the Witch Trials of 1692 , what was the name of the Massachusetts village where the accusations began?
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
In The Addams Family theme song what do you hear immediately after the words "They're creepy and they're kooky"?
Mysterious and spooky
What ancient Celtic festival is considered one of the origins of Halloween and was believed to mark the time when the boundary between the living and the dead became thin?
Samhain festival
What is Albus Dumbledore's full name, including all of his given middle names?
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Who wrote the novel Frankenstein in 1818?
Mary Shelley
What was Gandalf's original name before coming to Middle-earth?
Olorin
Fill in the gap: "Spooky, scary skeletons send ____ down your spine" (song "Spooky Scary Skeletons" by Andrew Gold).
shivers