Halloween 1
What is another name for Halloween?
Answer: All Hallows’ Eve
Where does the quote “Double, double toil and trouble” come from?
Answer: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
What day does All Saints’ Day fall on?
Answer: Nov. 1
Who penned the 1962 song “Monster Mash”?
Answer: Bobby “Boris” Pickett
What popular cartoon ghost has appeared in dozens of films, TV series and comic books?
Answer: Casper the Friendly Ghost
Which Halloween candy was originally referred to as chicken feed?
Answer: Candy corn
Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Answer: Washington Irving
What country was Count Dracula born in ?
Romania (Transylvania)
According to the lyrics of “Monster Mash,” who are the guests of the Halloween party?
Answer: Wolfman, Dracula and his son
What year did - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - first air?
A - 1961
B - 1964
C - 1966
Before pumpkins, which root vegetables did the Irish and Scottish carve on Halloween?
Answer: Turnips
Besides horror, in what other genre did Dracula author Bram Stoker publish books?
Answer: Romance
What city in Massachusetts is most well known for witchcraft?
Salem
Vincent Price provides the spooky monologue in which popular Halloween song?
Answer: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
How many Halloween movies has Jamie Lee Curtis appeared in?
A) 4
B) 7
C) 5
Seven
Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?
a) Edgar Allan Poe b) Mary Shelley
c) Arthur C. Doyle d) J.K. Rowling
b) Mary Shelley
What 1845 poem by Edgar Allen Poe features a talking bird that repeats the word “Nevermore”?
Answer: The Raven
Who wrote the famous Gothic novel Dracula?
Bram Stocker
According to the catchy song played during the introduction, which famous family is said to be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky?
The Addams family.
Which movie tops Rotten Tomatoes’s list of the Scariest Horror Movies Ever?
Answer: The Exorcist
The day before Halloween is often called what?
(Two answers are acceptable)
All Hallows Eve or Mischief Night
In what Stephen King book does a family move into a haunted hotel?
Answer: The Shining
What’s another name for a lycanthrope?
Answer: A werewolf
A 1984 song asked, “Who you gonna call?” What is the answer?
Answer: Ghostbusters!
How many minutes does Michael Keaton appear on screen in Beetlejuice?
A) 47 minutes
B) 17 minutes
C) 27 minutes
17 minutes