Around the World
The festival that inspired Halloween originated in this country.
What is Ireland?
The decade the Salem Witch Trials began.
What is 1690s?
The number of times you must say Betelgeuse's name for him to appear.
What is three times?
The percent of Americans who say they participate in Halloween.
(Get within 7%)
What is 73%?
This number is unlucky in China.
What is 4?
The name of the celebration in Mexico that goes from October 31st to November 2nd.
What is the Day of the Dead?
The decade that the famous Dracula movie starring Bela Lugosi released.
What is the 1930s?
The unauthorized 1922 adaptation of Dracula.
What is Nosferatu?
Out of Gen Z, Millennials, Gen-X, Boomers, and Seniors, this generation is most likely to dress up in costume for Halloween.
What are Millennials?
Scooby Doo's full first name.
This European country encourages a lot of tourism around Halloween, despite not celebrating Halloween much themselves and multiple calls from groups to ban it.
What is Romania?
The decade in which Frankenstein was FIRST published.
What is the 1810s?
The name of the witches in Hocus Pocus.
What is the Sanderson Sisters?
The most popular Halloween candy.
What is Reese's?
Are bats blind?
No.
This Christian holiday, widely celebrated in Italy, begins on October 31st and ends on November 1st.
What is All Saints Day?
The decade in which candy corn was invented.
What is the 1880s?
The name of the hand in Wednesday and the Addams Family.
What is the Thing?
The most popular kid's Halloween costume in 2025.
(Hint: it was a character from a movie, name the character or movie)
What is Spider-Man?
or, What is KPop Demon Hunters?
The word for a fear of Halloween.
What is samhainophobia?
This country is one of the first to celebrate Halloween each year, due to it being so close to the International Date Line.
What is New Zealand?
The decade in which trick or treating became popular in the US.
What is the 1930s?
The narrator of the 1938 War of the worlds broadcast.
Who is Orson Welles?
The most popular pet costume in 2025.
(Hint: it's not a specific character or monster, but is Halloween-y)
What is Pumpkin?
This superstition is described in a famous children's playground rhyme.
What is step on a crack break your mother's back, step on a line break your father's spine?
This South American country has a law often (wrongly) linked to the legend that the 7th son in a family will become a werewolf.
What is Argentina?
The decade in which Disney's Haunted Mansion ride opened.
What is the 1960s?
The 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie that was filmed in Bodega Bay, California.
What is The Birds?
As of October 10, 2026, the heaviest pumpkin weighed this much.
(Get within 60 pounds)
What is 3,156 lbs?
In Italy, this Friday date is unlucky, but it's not Friday the 13th.
What is Friday the 17th?
(17= XVII = VIXI, I lived)