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In "The Ring", how long do people have to live after watching the videotape?
7 days
Who wrote the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
Edgar Allen Poe
What is the name of Wednesday's mother in "The Addams Family"?
Morticia Addams
What orange squash is famously carved into jack-o'-lanterns every Halloween?
What is a pumpkin
According to superstition, this animal brings bad luck if it crosses your path.
What is a black cat?
Not adjusted for inflation, what is the highest grossing horror film of all time?
It (2017)
Who was the author of the 1818 novel "Frankenstein"?
Mary Shelley
What is the name of the character played by Jack Nicholson in "The Shining"?
Jack Torrance
What candy slogan claims it “melts in your mouth, not in your hand”?
What are M&M’s
This phrase is traditionally said when someone sneezes because people once believed sneezing expelled evil spirits or caused the soul to leave the body.
What is “Bless you”?
What year did the film "Halloween", directed by John Carpenter, release?
1978
Bram Stoker, an Irish novelist, is known for writing what?
Dracula
What are the names of the 3 witch sisters in "Hocus Pocus"?
Winifred Sanderson
Mary Sanderson
Sarah Sanderson
What spooky dessert is made to look like a graveyard using crushed Oreos, pudding, and gummy worms?
What is dirt pudding (or graveyard pudding)
Before pumpkins became popular, people originally carved these vegetables into jack-o’-lanterns.
What are turnips?
In which state does the 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead" take place?
Pennsylvania
Who is known for creating the Cthulhu mythos and novels such as "Call of Cthulhu"?
H. P. Lovecraft
At a young age, he had the ability to speak to the dead, and he often preferred their company to that of the living. What was his name? (Hint: From a movie released in 2012)
Norman Babcock
What popular Halloween punch gets its smoky effect from adding dry ice?
What is witch’s brew
Trick-or-treating as we know it today originated in this country.
What is Ireland?
Who directed the first Saw film, released in 2004? (Hint: They also directed Aquaman and The Conjuring)
James Wan
When was the novel "Pet Sematary" by Stephen King originally published?
1983
Unable to use the name Dracula, the 1922 film Nosferatu's main character was renamed to what?
Count Orlok
What spooky appetizer is made by stuffing olives into mozzarella balls to look like eyeballs?
What are monster eyeballs (or mozarella eyeballs)
The fear of Halloween itself is called this, named after the ancient Celtic festival that inspired the holiday.
What is Samhainophobia?