Halloween in Hollywood
What are Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, the Nightmare before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Dark Shadows, Coraline, and Frankenweenie?
This celebrity died on Halloween 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
This candy won't make you laugh out loud.
What is a Snickers?
This famous Bay Stater may have killed their family with 40 whacks.
Who is Lizzie Borden?
Name that song: They're creepy and they're kooky, they're all together spooky.
What is The Addams Family?
This scary movie was inspired by an Edvard Munch painting.
What is Scream?
This English word means "fear of Halloween".
What is Samhainophobia?
These two "female" pronouns make up a famous candy popular on Halloween.
What is a Hershey bar?
According to Irish legend, this vegetable was used in the first Jack O' Lantern carving.
What is the turnip?
Who are the Ghostbusters?
This was the first horror movie ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
What is the Exorcist? (It actually won 10 Oscars!)
This is the number of suspected witches that were burned to death during the Salem Witch Trials.
What is zero witches? (They were hanged.)
This was the original name of Candy Corn when production began in the 1880s.
What is "Chicken Feed"?
This legend is the basis for the modern-day tradition of pumpkin carving.
What is The Legend of Stingy Jack? (Bonus points if you can tell the story!)
This play is the origin of "Double, double, toil and trouble."
Macbeth
This was the original title for Disney's classic movie Hocus Pocus.
What is Halloween House?
This 1933 US event nearly led to the banning of Halloween.
What is Black Halloween (when cars were tipped, telephone poles cut, and general mayhem ensued)?
This famous candy's "mystery" flavor is always a mix of two flavors, caused by the machine switching between flavors during production.
What are Dum-Dums?
This famous writer is rumored to have carried her dead husband's heart around after his untimely death.
Name that movie: There's something very wrong. What's this? There's people singing songs.
What is The Nightmare before Christmas?
This is the last ingredient in the Sanderson Sister's spell.
What is a Dead Man's Toe?
This holiday began as a way to provide food and refreshment during the nine stage journey to Chicunamictlán
What is the Day of the Dead?
This is the percentage of Halloween costumes sold in adult sizes every year (within 5 or so percentage points).
What is 62%?
This real-life incident in Rhode Island likely inspired the character of Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's famous Dracula.
What is the Mercy Brown vampire incident?
Name that song: You hear the door slam and realize there is no where left to run. You feel the cold hand and wonder if you’ll ever see the sun.
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?