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This 1925 horror film, based on Gaston Leroux’s novel by the same name, was made into successful Broadway musical
What is "The Phantom of the Opera"?
How many bones are in the average human body?
What is 206?
What's the name of the vocal group that accompanies the Coffin Bangers in the song “Monster Mash”?
Who are the Crypt-Kicker Five?
From top to bottom, these classic colors have been defining a traditional Halloween "chicken feed" since 1880.
What are white, orange, and yellow?
The act of carving pumpkins into Jack-o-lanterns began with this vegetable
What are turnips?
Which actor said that “Hocus Pocus” was one of her favorite movie roles of all time?
Who is Bette Midler?
What is the deadliest spider in the world?
What is the funnel-web spider?
According to the Sheb Wooley song lyric, this creature is a "one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' _____"
What is a Purple People Eater?
A man in what profession invented cotton candy that we still see commonly at the state fair
What is a dentist?
For the Celts, black represented the “death” of summer while the orange symbolized this (quite literal) turn of the year
What is the autumn harvest season?
What are the names of the three kidnappers who abduct “Sandy Claws” in the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas”?
Who are Lock, Shock, and Barrel?
What Arizona city shares its name with something you'd find in a graveyard?
What is Tombstone?
John Carpenter's theme song for "Halloween" is written in what time signature?
What is 5/4?
Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie developed this colorful, alphabetical candy
What are M&M's?
Black cats are superstitious because people believed them to be the ________ of a witch, supernatural entities that would assist in their practice of dark magic
What is a familiar?
Who was Sarah's lover and Winifred's husband in Kenny Ortega's production of "Hocus Pocus"?
Who is Billy Butcherson?
In 2023, Travis Gienger nabbed the Guinness World record for heaviest pumpkin. How much did it weigh?
What is 2,749 pounds? (1247 kilograms)
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was originally going to be titled this (literally) dark name
What is "Starlight"?
The word for this candy comes out of the German word "PFEFFERMINZ"
What are Pez?
Christian missionaries introduced this holiday on November 2, which perpetuated the idea of the living coming into contact with the dead around the same time of year
What is All Souls' Day?
What year did Charles M. Schulz's classic Halloween TV special, “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” first air?
What is 1966?
Halloween's original name came from what nationality's traditional festival?
What is Samhain? What are the Celts?
Who is the lead singer of the Zombies?
Who is Colin Blunstone?
Ronald Reagan loved Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, so much so that he made this addition to Air Force One
What are Jelly bean holders?
Medieval folklore brought people to believe that bats were harbingers of this
What is death?