Halloween Basics
This is the date on which Halloween is celebrated each year.
What is October 31?
This masked killer is the main antagonist of the Halloween film franchise.
Who is Michael Myers?
This orange vegetable is carved to make a classic Halloween lantern.
What is a pumpkin?
This carved decoration features a glowing face, usually made from a pumpkin.
What is a jack-o’-lantern?
This name refers to the evening before All Saints’ Day.
What is All Hallows’ Eve?
This Halloween activity involves going door-to-door asking for candy.
What is trick-or-treating?
In Beetlejuice, this is the number of times you must say the character’s name to summon him.
What is three?
This tri-colored candy is traditionally yellow, orange and white.
What is candy corn?
Alongside orange, this is one of Halloween’s most recognizable colors.
What is black?
This Christian feast day is observed on November 1 and honors all saints.
What is All Saints’ Day?
This person claims to communicate with the dead.
Who is a medium?
This is the name of the Pumpkin King in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This treat consists of an apple covered in a hard, sugary coating
What is a candy apple?
This flying mammal is associated with vampires and haunted houses.
What is a bat?
These two countries are especially associated with bringing Halloween customs to North America through nineteenth-century immigration.
What are Ireland and Scotland?
This skeletal figure, often carrying a scythe, personifies death.
Who is the Grim Reaper?
This is the name of the haunted hotel in The Shining.
What is the Overlook Hotel?
This dessert combines roasted marshmallows and chocolate between graham crackers.
What are s’mores?
This Halloween party game involves catching floating apples with your teeth.
What is bobbing for apples?
What is apple bobbing?
This Christian observance, held on November 2, commemorates the faithful departed.
What is All Souls’ Day?
This ancient Celtic festival is commonly associated with Halloween’s origins.
What is Samhain?
This is the surname of Norman, the motel owner in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
What is Bates?
This chewy confection is traditionally made with sugar, butter and flavorings, and is often associated with seaside candy shops.
What is saltwater taffy?
Before pumpkins became popular for jack-o’-lanterns in North America, this root vegetable was traditionally carved in Ireland.
What is a turnip?
In Irish legend, this man was condemned to wander with a glowing coal inside a carved turnip.
Who is Stingy Jack?