Costumes
This costume trend became popular in the 1950s thanks to mass-produced plastic masks and smocks
A) DIY monsters
B) TV and cartoon characters
C) Historical figures
D) Classic horror icons
What are TV and cartoon characters?
This radiation is used in EMF detectors
A) Gamma
B) Infrared
C) Electromagnetic
D) Ultraviolet
What is Electromagnetic?
This event led to witch executions in 1692
A) Boston Tea Party
B) Salem Witch Trials
C) French-Indian War
D) Great Awakening
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This film features Michael Myers
A) Friday the 13th
B) Halloween
C) Scream
D) Psycho
What is Halloween?
This object is used to cast spells
A) Cauldron
B) Wand
C) Crystal Ball
D) Book
What is a wand?
In masquerade balls of the 18th century, this accessory was used to signal flirtation or mystery
A) Fan
B) Cloak
C) Mask
D) Glove
What is a Fan?
This part of the brain is responsible for the fight-or-flight response
A) Hippocampus
B) Cerebellum
C) Amygdala
D) Medulla
What is the Amygdala?
This haunted ship is docked in California
A) Titanic
B) Queen Mary
C) Lusitania
D) Enterprise
What is the Queen Mary?
This horror film features a character who communicates with ghosts and delivers the iconic line, “I see dead people”
A) The Sixth Sense
B) Poltergeist
C) Insidious
D) The Others
What is The Sixth Sense?
This pagan religion is linked to witchcraft
A) Druidism
B) Wicca
C) Shinto
D) Zoroastrianism
What is Wicca?
This costume, often worn during Carnival in Venice, traditionally includes a long-nosed mask and black cloak
A) Harlequin
B) Bauta
C) Plague doctor
D) Colombina
What is a Plague Doctor?
This is the first stage of death
A) Decomposition
B) Pallor mortis
C) Rigor mortis
D) Algor mortis
What is Pallor mortis?
This London site is haunted by Anne Boleyn
A) Westminster Abbey
B) Tower of London
C) Buckingham Palace
D) London Bridge
What is the Tower of London?
This film is a subtle critique of slasher tropes
A) Scream
B) Saw
C) Hostel
D) The Purge
What is Scream?
A book of spells is called
A) Almanac
B) Codex
C) Grimoire
D) Scroll
What is a Grimoire?
The Guy Fawkes mask, popularized by V for Vendetta, is associated with this real-world event
A) The Gunpowder Plot
B) The French Revolution
C) The Boston Tea Party
D) The Salem Witch Trials
What is the Gunpowder Plot?
This environmental toxin was the true culprit in a family's reported "haunting", as published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology in 1921
A) Mold
B) Carbon monoxide
C) Lead paint
D) Asbestos
What is Carbon monoxide?
In the 16th century, wealthy Europeans believed that this, in powder form, could be consumed to cure disease
A) Bats
B) Mummies
C) Blood
D) Moths
What are Mummies?
This found-footage film is set in Black Hills Forest
A) Paranormal Activity
B) Cloverfield
C) The Blair Witch Project
D) REC
What is the Blair Witch Project?
This is the term for a magical symbol used in rituals to focus intent or summon energy
A) Sigil
B) Hex
C) Glyph
D) Talisman
What is a Sigil?
In the 1920s, flapper women often dressed up as this character for Halloween parties
A) Amelia Earhart
B) Marie Antoinette
C) Cleopatra
D) The Queen of Hearts
Who is Cleopatra?
This psychological condition makes people believe they’re dead
A) Capgras Syndrome
B) Cotard’s Delusion
C) Phantom Limb
D) Dissociative Identity Disorder
What is Cotard's Delusion?
This movement used séances to contact the dead
A) Romanticism
B) Spiritualism
C) Transcendentalism
D) Realism
What is Spiritualism?
This cult classic horror film features a female villain who takes the term "maneater" literally
A) Misery
B) Jennifer's Body
C) Carrie
D) Rocky Horror Picture Show
What is Jennifer's Body?
This author coined the term "Necronomicon"
A) H.P. Lovecraft
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Bram Stoker
D) Ambrose Bierce
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?