Halloween
General
General
Halloween
Literature
Literature
Halloween
History
History
Halloween
Characters
Characters
Halloween
Animals
Animals
Halloween
Food
Food
100
Halloween is the second busiest holiday after which one?
Christmas
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100
What is the name of the Gothic novel about a scientist who creates a monster?
Bonus: who is the author?
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
100
In which country did Halloween originate?
Ireland
100
Vampires are a well-known Halloween creature, but what are they believed to be doing to gain power and survive?
Sucking human blood
100
What is the superstition associated with black cats on Halloween?
They are believed to bring bad luck
100
What food do people "bob" for on Halloween?
Apples!
200
In the term "All Hallow's Eve", what does the word 'Hallow' mean?
Saint or Holy
200
What is the first name of Dr. Frankenstein?
Dr. Victor Frankenstein
200
What was originally carved for jack-o-lanterns instead of pumpkins?
Turnips!
200
When & where do vampires sleep?
During the daytime (nocturnal) in their coffin
200
What is the traditional role of Black Cats in Halloween and Occult Lore?
They are infamously known for being witches' familiars.
200
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
A pumpkin is a fruit.
It is in the same category as a cucumber.
300
What is the day after Halloween called?
All Saints’ Day
300
In which Shakespeare play, do three witches say "Double, double, toil and trouble"?
Macbeth
300
In Mexico, what is the name of the holiday that coincides with Halloween?
Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
300
Which cardinal direction is the protagonist Green Witch from The Wizard of Oz?
Wicked Witch of the West
300
What Are Baby Owls Called?
Owlet or Fledgling
300
What was the original name for candy corn?
Chicken Feed
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400
Where is Transylvania, otherwise known as home to Count Dracula, located?
Romania
400
How many witches appear in Shakespeare's Macbeth? Bonus: What were they referred to as?
Three. Referred to as the “weird sisters”
400
What was the original purpose of bobbing for apples on Halloween?
Fortune-telling, specifically predicting whom a woman would marry. Each apple represented a different suitor, and whichever apple the woman ended up biting into was said to represent her future husband.
400
What can harm a vampire?
Wooden stakes / silver bullets / sunlight
400
What is the most popular Halloween costume for pets?
Pumpkin (followed by hot dog, bat, bumblebee and witch)
400
Pumpkins can be orange, white, red, yellow, green and what other color?
Blue!
500
What's the most popular Halloween costume, according to Google?
A witch
500
Who wrote the classic novel Dracula?
Bram Stoker
500
A custom in the 1100s was to go "souling" on All Saint's Day aka Halloween. What did this mean?
Another custom was souling, which involved baking and sharing soul cakes, which resembled spice cookies. By the 1400s, groups of poor people (often children) would go from door to door collecting soul cakes. In return, they would pray for the giver’s deceased loved ones. During the Middle Ages, parishioners dressed up as saints and went souling. This tradition continues in some places to the present day. While souling, Christians would carry lanterns made of hollowed-out turnips. The lanterns symbolized a guiding light to help souls find their family’s home, and also as a deterrent to evil spirits. For the same reasons, individual homes had candles lit in every room. These were called soul lights.
500
What do call a man who practices witchcraft?
A warlock
500
What region are Vampire Bats from?
The common vampire bat is found in the tropics of Mexico, Central America, and South America.
500
What were the first ever fun size chocolate bars?
Snickers and Milky Way
600
What is Samhainophobia?
A fear of Halloween
600
Who was the character of Dracula based off of?
Vlad the Impaler (Vlad III). Dracula, the 1897 tale of a vampire from Transylvania, is often thought to be inspired by a formidable 15th-century governor from present-day Romania named Vlad the Impaler.
600
During the original Celtic festival that Halloween is based off of, what would people need to do in exchange for food?
During the evening, people dressed in costumes or disguises and went door to door, reciting poetry in exchange for food.
600
What do you call a group of witches?
A coven
600
In one superstition, a bat entering a house is a sign that what is going to happen?
Someone is going to die. Bats have garnered unreasonable fear for centuries. Some believe that bats flying into a home means that someone will soon die.
600
Which country has produced the largest pumpkin ever?
Switzerland. They were able to produce a pumpkin that weighed 856 kilograms in 2015.
700
What Halloween colors, black and orange, represent on this holiday?
It’s thought that orange is for pumpkins, harvest, or fire and black represents night, death or darkness
700
Which story originated the Headless Horseman?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
700
Halloween can be traced back to a Celtic holiday. What’s the name of that holiday?
Samhain
700
Every Halloween, Charlie Brown helps his friend Linus wait for what character to appear?
The Great Pumpkin
700
What should a bride do if she witnesses a cat sneezing?
a) Give it to an enemy. b)Kill it. c) Consider herself lucky. d) Throw salt into the fire.
A soon-to-be-married woman should consider a sneezing cat a sign of good fortune to come.
700
In what year were ‘fun size’ chocolate bars first introduced?
a) 1922 b) 1947 c) 1968 d) 1982
In 1968