Vampire
Werewolf
Zombie
Ghosts
Mummy
100
What author is commonly credited with the popularity of vampires?
Bram Stoker
100
What is a less common term for a werewolf?
Lycanthrope.
100
What is the most common way that zombies spread?
Biting.
100
What is the name of Charles Dickens' famous ghost story?
A Christmas Carol.
100
The discovery of what tomb started the European obsession with mummies?
King Tut's.
200
Where do vampires commonly originate from?
Eastern Europe/Transylvania.
200
What is the name of the rare, psychological condition that causes people to believe they’re changing into a wolf or other animal?
Lycanthropy.
200
What governmental agency has a dedicated part of its website to "zombie preparedness"?
The CDC.
200
What did the Roman Empire rename Samhain?
Allhallows or Hallowmas.
200
Who stars in the 1999 reboot, The Mummy, as Rick O'Connell?
Brendan Fraser.
300
What popular 1970's book sparked a revival of vampire fiction that lasted into the 21st century and is credited with creating a new era of vampire fiction where vampires are brooding and self-loathing and squabble like humans?
Anne Rice's novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976).
300
What is the name of Hollywood’s 1941 flick that made the werewolf a pop culture horror icon?
The Wolf Man.
300
What is the reason for the zombies in the film, Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
Although exactly what brought on the reanimation of these corpses is never entirely explained, it is strongly suggested that it is the result of radiation from a space probe which has returned from Venus.
300
What is the name of the 1984 famous ghost-centric film?
Ghostbusters.
300
How many canopic jars are used in mummification?
4.
400
In what region did Dr. Johannes Flückinger's famous report come from?
The Balkans.
400
What was The Bedburg Werewolf?
Peter Stubbe, a wealthy, fifteenth-century farmer supposedly turned into a wolf-like creature at night and devoured many citizens of Bedburg. He also declared he owned an enchanted belt that gave him the power to transform into a wolf at will.
400
What is an ingredient in "zombie powders" used by Bokors?
Herbs, shells, fish, animal parts, bones and other objects such as tetrodotoxin, a deadly neurotoxin found in pufferfish and some other marine species.
400
During what Samhain tradition did the term bonfire originate?
During Samhain, cattle were slaughtered, and the bones were burned in "Bone Fires".
400
What movie studio produced The Mummy (1932)?
Universal Pictures.
500
The novel Dracula is commonly thought to be inspired by which 2 people?
The cruel acts of the 15th-century prince Vlad III Dracula of Transylvania, also known as “the Impaler,”
and
Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who was believed to have murdered dozens of young women during the 16th and 17th centuries in order to bathe in or possibly drink their blood so as to preserve her own vitality.
500
In the Roman poet Virgil’s Eclogue 8, written in 37 BCE, how could the man, Moeris, change himself into a werewolf?
Using herbs and poisons.
500
Zombies appeared in literature as far back as...?
1697 and they were described as spirits or ghosts, not cannibalistic fiends.
500
What movement was dedicated to the idea that the afterlife, and specifically the Christian idea of the afterlife, was scientifically provable?
Spirtualism.
500
he Great Pyramids of Giza were plundered as early as the New Kingdom period (....)?
1570-1070 B.C.