Halloween Dances
Spooky Movies
Trick or Treat
Fun and Games
Halloween Folklore
100

This 1984 Michael Jackson song featured a monologue by Vincent Price that began "darkness falls across the land..."

What is thriller

100

This Tim Burton classic features a stop-motion dog that has a pumpkin for a nose

What is The Nightmare Before Christmas

100

Halloween originated in this country

What is Ireland

100

People bob for this kind of fruit during the fall season

What are apples

100

Halloween originally started as a way to celebrate the end of the harvest season. In Celtic times it was called this

What is Samhain (Sow-in)

200

This Abominably alliterative song released in 1962

What is the Monster Mash

200

The name of the Addams' third child in the movie Addams Family Values was this

What is Pubert?

200

Forks Washington holds a festival to commemorate this sparkling book/film series every September

What is Twilight
200

"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

200

In Canada, the first recorded instance of children dressing in disguise on Halloween was in this BC town in 1898

What is Vancouver

300

It's not Dracula, but someone else Olivia Rodrigo is calling a bloodsucker in her 2023 single of this name

What is Vampire

300

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

300

Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders, Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts, and Samhainophobia is this

What is the fear of Halloween?

300

Partygoers often peel this fruit and pass it off as witches eyeballs-yuck!

What are grapes

300

A trick-or-treat donation campaign by this charity organization ran from 1955 to 2006

What is UNICEF

400

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

400

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

400

This was the original name for what we now call Candy Corn

What is Chicken or Cows Feed

400

Anthony Pratt's inspirations when he invented the board game later published as Cluedo were originally these

What are Agatha Christie's detective fictions, and/or a game in which his friend group pretended to murder each other?

400

Halloween is a time when the spirits cross into our world, people originally dressed up in disguises to do this

What is confuse or scare spirits away

500

This musician produced and arranged the song "I Put a Spell on You" in the 1993 Movie "Hocus Pocus"

Who is Marc Shaiman

500

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

What is Ghostbusters

The court later ruled in favor of the Ghostbusters producers, stating "there's only so many ways to draw a ghost"

500

Before Pumpkins, this 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.”

500

During Punkin' Chunkin events, this 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

500

This Roman goddess was known as the Goddess of Apples and other orchard fruits

Who is Pomona


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