HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
HALLOWEEN MUSIC
HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN MOVIES
HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS AROUND THE WORLD
100

Broomsticks, cauldrons, black cats, and spells

WHAT IS A WITCH

100

According to the lyrics, the Monster Mash was THIS___ kind of smash.

What is a Graveyard Smash?

100

This famous Halloween catch phrase was first seen in print in a Portland, Oregon newspaper in 1934.

What is "trick-or-treat"?

100

The first names of the three Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus.

What is Sarah, Winifred (Winnie), and Mary?

100

What custom (holiday) came to America in the 1840s with Irish immigrants fleeing a potato famine?

What is Halloween.

200

Has fangs, drinks blood, allergic to the sun

WHAT IS A VAMPIRE

200

THIS___ moonwalking pop star sung the catchy hook in the 1984 Rockwell hit “Somebody’s Watching Me.”

Who is Michael Jackson?

200

This was the original meaning for dressing up in costumes on Halloween?

What is Hiding from Ghosts.

200

This movie was shot entirely on video camera, documentary style, in eight days.

What is The Blair Witch Project?

200

What is the most celebrated holiday for honoring the departed, with gifts, costumes, and sweet offerings?


What is Day of the dead (Dia de los Muertos)

300

This mask has been the most popular Halloween mask since 1992, 4 years before the 1994 horror movie that made it famous.

WHAT IS GHOSTFACE/SCREAM mask

300

Composer, singer, and musician Danny Elfman wrote the lyrics to THIS___ song and 9 others for the movie Nightmare Before Christmas.

This is Halloween

300

What were Jack-O-Lanterns originally carved from?

What is Turnips

300

This is the name of the fictitious town in Illinois that the original Halloween (and many sequels) takes place in.

What is Haddonfield?

300

What is the largest Public Halloween event in the US?


What is Village Halloween Parade NYC

(Currently the 44th year in 2016 it attracted 2 million spectators.)

400

This actors face was used to help design the Michael Meyers mask.

WHO IS WILLIAM SHATNER

400

THIS__ horror movie legend’s voice is heard in a monologue at the end of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Who is Vincent Price?

400

In What decade did trick or treating Become popular?

What is the 1950s

400

This horror movie was Johnny Depp’s film debut. –

What is A Nightmare on Elm Street?

400

What is Guy Fawkes Day of England, commonly known as?

What is Bonfire Night. 

(The annual denouncing of the criminal Guy Fawkes. In the 17th century, Fawkes was part of a plot to assassinate King James I, but got caught before igniting gunpowder barrels. Celebration includes costumes fireworks and bonfires)

500

The Celtic pagan holiday in which the Halloween costume originates from

WHAT IS SAMHAIN

500

Singer Ray Parker Jr. tells you to call Ghostbusters THIS___ many times in his 1984 movie soundtrack hit

What is 17?

500

Where was the first city-wide Halloween celebration in the United States?

What is Minnesota

500

This 1973 horror movie received 10 Academy Award nominations.

What is The Exorcist?

500

In what country is Samhain, or Samhuinn celebrated, going back nearly 3,000 years?

What is Ireland or Scotland