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100

How did early New Englanders protect their homes from evil spirits?

By hiding their shoes in the walls

100

What year did It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first air?

1966

100

 Where does the quote “Double, double toil and trouble” come from?

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

100

Who penned the 1962 song “Monster Mash”?

Bobby “Boris” Pickett

100

What do you call a man who practices witchcraft?

A Warlock

200

What vegetable was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween?

Cabbage

200

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, what is the name of the Pumpkin King who rules Halloween?

Jack Skellington

200

Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

Washington Irving

200

What was the original title of the Michael Jackson song “Thriller”?

Starlight

200

What’s another name for a lycanthrope?

Werewolf 

300

What is the significance of bobbing for apples during Halloween?

It was originally a fortune-telling game, where it was believed that the first person to catch an apple would be the next to marry

300

How many Halloween movies has Jamie Lee Curtis appeared in?

7

300

Besides horror, in what other genre did Dracula author Bram Stoker publish books?

Romance

300

What year was the song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” released?

1976

300

What creature from folklore is said to steal children on Halloween if they misbehave?

Boogeyman

400

What historic weather event occurred on Halloween in 1991?

The Halloween Blizzard of 1991

400

Which movie tops Rotten Tomatoes’s list of the Scariest Horror Movies Ever?

The Exorcist 

400

Who wrote the 1818 classic book Frankenstein?

Mary Shelley 

400

According to a well-known song, which family is said to be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky?

The Addams Family

400

What is the Halloween creature that cries or wails as a warning of death?


A banshee

500

Who brought the Halloween tradition to the United States?

The Irish

500

How many minutes does Michael Keaton appear on screen in Beetlejuice?

17

500

How many witches are in Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

3

500

A 1984 song asked, “Who you gonna call?” What is the answer?

Ghostbusters

500

What monster is associated with the full moon, but is not affected by silver?

Skinwalker

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