General knowledge
Monsters!
Double points!
Movies
Candy
200
This is the day Halloween is celebrated every year.
What is October 31?
200
This group was on TV in the 60s, before finding new popularity.
Who are the Addams family?
200
This Victorian writer was responsible for Frankenstein, which inspired many of the SF writers who followed her.
Who was Mary Shelley?
200
This is the name of the monster from the Halloween movies.
Who is Michael Myers?
200
This is the decade when "fun size" candy bars were first produced in the US.
What is the 1960s?
400
Between either a fruit or vegetable, pumpkins are this.
What is a fruit?
400
This creepy creature can't enter your house uninvited, but when he is in his own home, you can find him in Transylvania.
Who is Count Dracula/vampire?
400
This play (later a movie) was inspired by the Salem Witch Trials.
What is The Crucible?
400
The main monster from the Nightmare on Elm Street films, he has sharp knives on each finger.
Who is Freddy Kreuger?
400
According to the New York Times, this is the most popular Halloween candy (by total sales) this year in the US.
What are Reece's peanut butter cups?
600
This is the actual meaning of the word Halloween, and it is not what people might expect.
What is Holy Evening?
600
This is the term for a male witch. (Hint: JK Rowling got it wrong)
What is a warlock?
600
This play feature a trio of witches chanting "Double bubble, toil and trouble."
What is MacBeth?
600
This horror movie franchise is responsible for popularizing the Ghostface (not the Wu Tang rapper) mask.
What is Scream?
600
The food research group Tastewise surveyed Americans in 2025 to determine their least favorite Halloween candy. What is the most hated Halloween candy?
Candy corn!
800
This vegetable was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween.
What is a cabbage?
The National Endowment of the Humanities reports: 'As a news story from Ironton, Montana, in 1888 wryly noted, “just what occult power a cabbage possesses has never been defined; but certain it is that these innocuous plants usually have a rough time of it on Halloween.'
800
This character was (unsurprisingly) the most popular Halloween costume of 2023.
Who is Barbie?
800
This is the author who created Count Dracula.
Who is Bram Stoker?
800
This title character has been pursuing Lydia Deets for many years now.
Who is Beetlejuice?
800
Due to military rationing in the US during WW2, this new chocolate candy was popularized.
What are Tootsie rolls?
1000
Halloween originated in this European country.
What is Ireland?
1000
This is the correct term for a group of witches.
What is a coven?
1000
This author of horror fiction created the terrifying Old Ones, like Cthulu.
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?
1000
This kid is often encouraged to pursue a being known only as the "Great Pumpkin."
Who is Charlie Brown?
1000
This is the original flavor of Swedish Fish.
What is lingonberry?
1200
In 2023, Travis Gienger nabbed the Guinness World record for heaviest pumpkin. To the nearest 100 pounds, this was its weight.
What was 2,749lbs?
1200
The word "ghost" has a whole lot of synonyms. Name three (in English).
What are specter, poltergeist, phantom, wraith, spirit, apparition, spook...?
1200
Stephen King is often considered the main man of horror fiction. Name five of his novels.
What are...It, Pet Sematary, The Stand, Tommyknockers, Carrie, Misery, The Shining, and many more?
1200
These are the first names of all of the Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus.
What are Winifred, Mary, and Sarah?
1200
This Halloween candy was originally referred to as “chicken feed.”
What is Candy Corn?
1400
Before Halloween became a popular American holiday (and pumpkins became available), this vegetable was carved instead.
What are turnips?
1400
I want to have a perfect skeleton costume. This is how many bones I'll have to include (plus or minus 5).
What is 206? (With the leeway, 201-211)
1400
Greek mythology is famous for its monsters. Name:
1. The monster with a bull's head and a man's body.
2. A giant with one eye
3. A monster with the torso and head of a woman, but the body and wings of a vulture.
4. A fire-breathing monster with three heads: a goat, a snake, and a lion
What are:
1. Minotaur
2. Cyclops
3. Harpy
4. Chimera
1400
This is the main villain/killer from the original Friday the 13th film.
Who is Pamela Voorhees (Jason's mom)?
1400
M&Ms are a very popular candy. For the regular points, note what one of the Ms stands for. For double points, note both! (If you provide two answers, each will be worth 1400 points!)
What are Mars and Murrie?