Halloween General
A group of witches.
What is a coven?
In 1973 this movie convinced Americans to throw out their Quija Boards.
What is the Exorcist?
Jack-o-lanterns originated in this country.
What is Ireland?
According to North American superstition, bad luck is imminent if you cross paths with this color cat.
What is black?
This 1962 monster-themed song “caught on in a flash”.
What is the “Monster Mash”?
This country celebrates the Day of the Dead instead of Halloween.
What is Mexico?
The name of the island the gang goes to in the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie.
What is Spooky Island?
This famous Halloween catch phrase was first seen in print in a Portland, Oregon newspaper in 1934.
What is “trick or treat”?
According to British superstition, bad luck is imminent if you cross paths with this color cat.
What is white?
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller “Psycho” takes place at this lodging establishment.
What is the Bates Motel?
These can also come in White or Green.
What is a pumpkin?
In Hotel Transylvania the color of Frankenstein.
What is Blue?
Before pumpkins became the standard, jack-o-lanterns were made from this root vegetable.
What are turnips (or potatoes)?
According to superstition, if you see a spider on Halloween, you can be assured that this is happening.
What is “a dead relative is watching over you?
In the television show, “The Addams Family,” these are the names of Gomez and Morticia Addams’ two children.
What are Pugsley and Wednesday?
The main character is Ichabod Crane in this book.
What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
This actress played Laurie Strode in the original Halloween movie.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
Halloween originated as this Celtic Festival.
What is Samhain (pronounced sow-en)?
According to Irish superstition, if a maiden carries a lantern to a lake on Halloween night, she will see this in the reflection.
What is the face of her future husband?
In the 1966 Halloween classic “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” Charlie Brown receives this at each house he visits for trick or treating.
What are rocks?
A male witch.
What is a warlock?
The last ingredient the Sanderson witches added to their cauldron in Hocus Pocus.
What is A bit of their own tongue?
Halloween of 1517 saw the start of this religious movement.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
According to superstition, if your candle flickers on Halloween night, you can be sure that this is visiting you.
What is a ghost?
In Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem lamenting lost love, this foreboding bird visits him in the night.
What is a raven?