Halloween Origins
Halloween originated in this country.
What is Ireland?
This is the ritual to summon Beetlejuice.
What is saying name three times?
The quote, ”Here’s Johnny” is from this movie.
What is The Shining?
This author wrote the Goosebumps series.
Who is R.L. Stine?
This candy is widely considered to be the oldest Halloween candy still eaten today.
What is Candy Corn?
This is the original name for Halloween (two names).
What is “All Hallows Eve” and “Samhain”?
The names of the three sisters in Hocus Pocus.
Who are Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson?
This quote, “I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost.” is from this movie.
What is Ghostbusters?
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dracula was inspired by this historical figure.
Who is Vlad the Impaler/Vlad Dracula?
This song is statistically the most listened-to Halloween song.
What is Monster Mash?
Instead of Pumpkins they originally would carve this instead.
What is a turnip?
The name of the grandmother in Halloweentown.
Who is Agatha ”Aggie“ Cromwell?
This line is said by this Scooby Doo character “Creeps and Crawls! They sure picked the right lawyers for this job.”
Who is Shaggy Rogers?
This eight book series is some of Stephen King‘s most popular writing.
What is The Dark Tower?
The world’s largest pumpkin weighs this much.
What is 2,749 lbs?
Halloween was first celebrated widely in America in this decade.
What is the 1840s?
In the “Nightmare Before Christmas“ Sally gives her father this soup to put him to sleep.
What is Worm’s Wort Soup?
This quote, “What’s the good of being a ghost if you can’t frighten people away?” is from this movie.
What is Beetlejuice?
This story by Edgar Allen Poe inspired elements of ”The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde.
What is The Oval Portrait?
The original Scooby Doo aired on this date.
Bonus points if show and episode title can be given.
What is September 13th 1969?
Bonus: Scooby Doo, Where Are You?: What a Night for a Knight?
This was collected door-to-door during the medieval tradition of "souling.”
What are ”soul cakes”?
This famous English actor played Dracula in seven movies from 1958-1973.
Who is Christopher Lee?
This quote, “Some people have swimming pools, others have private cemeteries” is from this movie.
What is The Haunted Mansion?
Mary Shelly got her inspiration for Frankenstein at this event.
What is a ghost story competition at Lord Byron’s?
This is the original purpose of bobbing for apples.
What is Fortune-telling, predicting who a woman would marry?