Spooky stories
The setting of Transylvania located in what country?
Romania
What year will have the next Halloween with a full moon?
2039
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
A fruit
What were originally used as the first Jack-o'-Lanterns?
Turnips
What is the highest grossing horror film to date?
It
Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
What is a lycanthrope?
Werewolf
What is America's favorite Halloween candy in a 2023 poll?
Snickers
Which of the following is NOT a term for a scarecrow: Hodmedod, Murmet, Doodle sack, Hay-man, Gallybagger, Tattie Bogal, Mommet, Mawkin, Bwbach?
Doodle Sack. Which is an English word for a bagpipe.
Which movie does the line “Do you like scary movies?” come from?
1996 film Scream
The Headless Horseman was the ghost of a soldier decapitated in what war?
Revolutionary War
How many bones are in the average human skeleton?
206
What holiday treat originally called chicken feed?
Candy Corn
What activity on Halloween orginated as a fortune-telling, specifically predicting whom a woman would marry?
Bobbing for apples. Each apple represented a different suitor, and whichever apple the woman ended up biting into was said to represent her future husband.
What brings the three Sanderson sisters back from the dead in the film Hocus Pocus?
The Black Flame Candle
Count Wampyr was the original name for what Bram Stoker's character?
Dracula. Wampyr is the German word for vampire. Stoker changed the name to Dracula after seeing the name in a book he borrowed from the library while on summer vacation in 1890.
Which famous magician actually died on Halloween?
Harry Houdini
What was the first wrapped penny candy in America?
Tootsie Roll
Where was the first city-wide celebration of Halloween?
Anoka, Minnesota, in 1921.
In "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," who does Linus mistake for the Great Pumpkin?
Snoopy
What is the most prolific children's horror book series?
What state produces the most pumpkins?
Illinois
Which plant is famously said to repel vampires?
Garlic
What product is banned in Hollywood on Halloween?
Silly String
What was the first movie to feature a toilet on screen?
The first on-screen toilet was seen in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho (1960). Earlier films avoided showing bathrooms.