Halloween Jeopardy🎃🍂

Fright Flicks 101

100

This 1993 Disney movie features three witch sisters who come back on Halloween night.

What is “Hocus Pocus?”

200

In Coraline, the Other Mother tries to sew these onto Coraline’s eyes.

What are “buttons?”

300

In Goosebumps, this creepy ventriloquist dummy comes to life.

Who is “Slappy?”

400

This 1984 film introduced Freddy Krueger, a villain who attacks in dreams.

What is “A Nightmare on Elm Street?”

500

This Tim Burton film stars a character who loves to say his own name three times.

What is “Beetlejuice?”

Legends and Lore

100

This mythical bird is reborn from its ashes.

What is a “phoenix?”

200

This ghostly woman weeps by the river searching for her lost children.

Who is “La Llorona?”

300

This ”friendly ghost” first appeared in a 1945 cartoon.

Who is “Casper?”

400

In Norse mythology, this type of animal is seen as a messenger of death.

What is a “raven?”

500

People avoided whistling at night because it was believed to summon this.

What are “ghosts?”

Superstitions

100

You should knock on this material to avoid jinxing yourself.

What is “wood?”

200

In China, this number is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for ”death.”

What is “four?”

300

Breaking one of these is said to bring seven years of bad luck.

What is a “mirror?”

400

Tossing this over your left shoulder is said to ward off bad luck.

What is “salt?”

500

Opening this indoors is said to bring misfortune.

What is an “umbrella?”

Trick or Treat!

100

This candy’s slogan is ”Taste the Rainbow!”

What are “Skittles”

200

True or false: Halloween is the second-largest commercial holiday after Christmas.

What is “true?”

300

The average trick-or-treater consumes about this many calories on Halloween night.

What is “7000 calories?”

400

In Ireland, kids used to perform tricks for treats during this Celtic festival.

What is “Samhain?”

500

In some parts of Germany, kids go door-to-door on November 11th for this saint’s day.

What is “St.Martin‘s Day?”

Origins

100

The name ”Halloween” comes from this older phrase meaning ”holy evening.”

What is “All Hallow’s Eve?”

200

The legend of werewolves came from people who believed in this full-moon curse.

What is “lycanthrophy?“

300

The jack-o-lantern was first carved from this root vegetable.

What is a turnip?

400

Halloween trick-or-treating originally started in this country.

What is “Ireland?”

500

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818 when she was just 18 years old. This European country is where she conceived the story during a summer spent with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.

What is “Switzerland?”