Two colors most associated with Halloween
What are black and orange?
Who is Frankenstein?
What is now known as "Halloween" dates back 2,000 years ago, originating in this country
What is Ireland?
(ancient Celtic festival of Samhain - pronounced sow-in)
Chris Washington, a young black man, uncovers a disturbing secret when he meets the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage.
What is Get Out?
You call them when there's something strange in the neighborhood.
Who are Ghostbusters?
Fear of spiders
What is arachnophobia?
What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman?
What is Frostbite?
A carved pumpkin
What is a Jack-o-Lantern?
Who is Count Dracula?
Samhain was eventually renamed this after the spread of Christianity into Celtic lands (9th century)
What is All-Hallows Eve?
(from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day)
What is "A Nightmare Before Christmas"?
This movie music perfectly captured the fantasy world created by J.K. Rowling.
What is Harry Potter?
Fear of confined or crowded spaces
What is claustrophobia?
A witches favorite subject at school.
What is spelling?
People like to tell scary stories around this
What is a bonfire?
(Druids, Celtic priests, built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities)
Who is a werewolf?
Before the Irish immigrated to N. America (19th century), "Halloween" events celebrated what season
What is the Harvest?
(Neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance and sing)
Ms. Randall's favorite movie of all time.
What is Beetlejuice?
This song, warning swimmers to run for shore, is from which movie soundtrack.
What is Jaws?
Fear of clowns
What is coulrophobia?
What might you find on a haunted beach?
What is a sand-witch?
This popular Halloween game involves dunking your head into a barrel of water
What is bobbing for apples?
Who is "The Invisible Man?"
Before it was common to go "trick-or-treating" for candy, people went door to door asking for what
What is food or money?
This film follows a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility
What is Split?
The culminating scene from this movie was filmed right here in Georgetown!
What is The Exorcist?
Fear of ghosts
What is phasmophobia?
Why don't mummies take time off?
What is they're afraid to unwind?
This familiar Halloween candy was originally called chicken feed (hint: it's in your planner!)
What is candy corn?
Who is the Swamp Monster?
The tradition of dressing up for Halloween began for what reason
What is to ward off ghosts?
On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits.
What is It?
Originally recorded for the TV series of the same name, this spooky movie song theme is the most identifiable of all time.
What is The Twilight Zone?
Fear of the night or darkness
What is nyctophobia?
What do skeletons order at a restaurant?
What are spare ribs?
The next full moon
What is October 31, 2020?
Who is Mr. Hyde?
In the Middle Ages, people believed that witches avoided detection by doing what
What is turning themselves into black cats?
Which of Stephen King's novels was first adapted for the screen?
What is The Shining?
This famous family first debuted in the 1938 cartoon of the same name.
What is The Addams Family?
Fear of blood
What is hemophobia?
Two witches sharing an apartment.
What are broommates?