HALLOWEEN HISTORY
What is another name for Halloween?
All Hallow’s Eve
Which famous Halloween movie features the line “Do you like scary movies”?
Scream
According to the lyrics of “Monster Mash,” who are the guests of the Halloween party?
Wolfman, Dracula and his son
Where is Transylvania located?
Romania
Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Washington Irving
What vegetable was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween?
Cabbage.
What movie serial killer is said to be immortalized with a statue at the bottom of a lake?
Jason Voorhees
Vincent Price provides the spooky monologue in which popular Halloween song?
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
What’s another name for a lycanthrope?
A werewolf
The 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes was penned by what author?
Ray Bradbury
Why do some people wear their clothes inside out on Halloween?
They believe they’ll see a witch at midnight
Which movie tops Rotten Tomatoes’s list of the Scariest Horror Movies Ever?
The Exorcist
Which film inspired Michael Jackson to collaborate with director John Landis on the “Thriller” video?
An American Werewolf in London
Besides sucking human blood, what do bats and vampires have in common?
They usually only come out at night
Where does the quote “Double, double toil and trouble” come from?
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
How did early New Englanders protect their homes from evil spirits?
By hiding their shoes in the walls
Which actor was the basis for Michael Myers’s mask in Halloween?
William Shatner (as Captain Kirk)
According to a well-known song, which family is said to be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky?
The Addams Family
What is another name for a witch’s kettle or pot?
A cauldron.
In the 1972 children’s book of the same name, who are Meg and Mog?
A witch and a cat
What is the significance of bobbing for apples during Halloween?
It was originally a fortune-telling game, where it was believed that the first person to catch an apple would be the next to marry
What was the original working title of Beetlejuice?
House Ghosts
Which actor in The Rocky Horror Picture Show co-wrote the screenplay with director Jim Sharman?
Richard O’ Brien, who played Riff Raff
Which ancient Egyptian mythological figure is often portrayed as a mummy in horror stories?
Imhotep
Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s Halloween classic Funnybones tells the story of a big skeleton, a little skeleton and what other type of skeleton?
A dog skeleton.