This 1984 Michael Jackson song featured a monologue by Vincent Price that began "darkness falls across the land..."
What is thriller
This Tim Burton classic features a stop-motion dog that has a pumpkin for a nose
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas
In which country did Halloween originate?
What is Ireland
People bob for what kind of fruit during the fall season?
Halloween originally started as a way to celebrate the end of the harvest season. What was it called in ancient Celtic times?
What is Samhain (Sow-in)
This Abominably alliterative song released in 1962
What is the Monster Mash
What was the name of the Addams' third child in the movie Addams Family Values?
What is Pubert
Forks Washington holds a festival to commemorate this sparkling book/film series every September
"Would you kindly" tell me the title of this spooky 2007 title that takes place almost entirely underwater, (apart from the opening sequence where a plane crashes into a lighthouse)
What is Bioshock
In Canada, the first recorded instance of children dressing in disguise on Halloween was in what BC town in 1898?
Vancouver
It's not Dracula, but someone else Olivia Rodrigo is calling a bloodsucker in her 2023 single of this name
What is Vampire
This 1999 found-footage movie featured a marketing campaign so effective that the public thought the lead actors were missing
What is the Blair Witch Project
Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders, Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts, what is Samhainophobia?
The fear of Halloween
Partygoers often peel this fruit and pass it off as witches eyeballs-yuck!
What are grapes
A trick-or-treat donation campaign by this charity organization ran from 1955 to 2006
UNICEF
This bone rattling 1996 song became a Halloween meme in the 2010's, and is still used to this day!
What is Spooky Scary Skeletons
These are two of Laika Studio's more spooky titles, one features a boy who can talk to ghosts and the other is about a girl who travels to a fantastic and sinister land
What are Paranorman and Coraline
What was the original name for what we now call Candy Corn
Chicken/cows Feed
What were Anthony Pratt's inspirations when he invented the board game later published as Cluedo?
The popularity of detective style fiction (namely Agatha Christie's works) and a game he used to play with his friends where they would pretend to kill each other.
Halloween is a time when the spirits cross into our world, why did people originally dress up in disguise?
To hide and blend in
Who produced and arranged the song "I Put a Spell on You" in the 1993 Movie "Hocus Pocus?"
Who is Marc Shaiman
Harvey Comics, the creators of Casper the Friendly Ghost, attempted to sue the producers of this film, believing their logo was too close of a resemblance to their ghost Fatso
The court later ruled in favor of the Ghostbusters producers, stating "there's only so many ways to draw a ghost"
Before Pumpkins, what vegetable was used as a Jack-o-lantern?
What is a turnip. Irish kids would carve out turnips and place a lump of lit coal. This lantern commemorated “Stingy Jack,” who fooled the devil but was forced to walk with only a lump of burning coal in a turnip to light the way. The Irish called him “Jack of the Lantern” or “Jack-o’-Lantern.”
During Punkin' Chunkin events, what is the term for a shot disqualified due to the pumpkin exploding mid air after being launched from a trebuchet?
What is Pie/Pie in the Sky
The Roman Goddess Pomona was the goddess of which autumnal fruit?
what are apples