History
Jack-o-lanterns were originally carved out of this plant.
What is a turnip?
The pumpkin is a...
Fruit OR Vegetable
What is a Fruit?
If 1 ghost equals 3 goblins and each goblin equals 5 vampires and each vampire equals 4 witches. How many witches are equal to 27 ghosts?
1620 witches
Within the story (not asking the author) who created Frankenstein?
His mom. (Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster)
The most popular selling Halloween candy of all time.
What is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
By this 20th century decade, Trick-or-Treating and community parties had replaced most of the religious origins of Halloween.
What is the 1950s?
The fear of spiders.
What is Arachnophobia?
You got 3 pounds of candy from trick or treating. You have 10 Reeses peanut butter cups that each weigh 2.4 ounces. What percent of your candy was Reeses peanut butter cups?
50%
This 20th century decade saw the creation of the "Goosebumps" books.
What is the 90s?
The name of the mystical spirit Linus waits for in the Charlie Brown Halloween special.
What is the Great Pumpkin?
The traditional festival that halloween is based on is from this country/culture.
What is Ireland?
Number of liters of blood in the average adult human body.
What is five?
There are 100 children that visit your house on Halloween night. You put together bags to hand out. Twelve of the bags contained apples, Twenty seven of the bags contained oranges, sixteen of the bags contained candy bars, twenty of the bags contained tomatoes, twenty of the bags contained popcorn balls and the last five bags contained onions. What is the probability that if you were one of the children that received a bag that it was a fruit?
39/100
Mary Shelley became one of the most influential writers in the horror genre in 1818 after writing this book.
What is Frankenstein?
Daily Double!!!
Who is Miss Kinnan dressed as for Halloween AND what is that historical figure's claim to fame?
It wasn't until this famous famine brought a wave of immigrants to America that Halloween came to the States.
What is the Irish Potato Famine of 1845?
Food of the Goliath Bird Eating Spiders.
What are mice, frogs, lizards, smaller invertebrates, but not birds?
How many dead people are buried in a small cemetery?
All of them
In the original novel, Dracula is killed when an Englishman cuts off his head WHILE his American friend does this.
What is "stabs him through the heart"?
The more common name of a lycanthrope.
What is a Werewolf?
Modern Halloween is a combination of a traditional pagan festival called Samhain, honoring the dead, and this Catholic Christian holiday that honored dead saints.
What is All Saints Day?
Wingspan of the largest bat in the world, the flying fox.
What is 1.8 meters 5 to 6 feet?
If you start eating 1 piece of candy at at exactly 6pm and 2 pieces at 6:05 pm and 4 at 6:10 and continue this pattern of doubling the number of pieces every 5 minutes how many pieces of candy have you eaten by exactly 6:30pm?
63 pieces
The original Dracula is an epistolary novel, meaning it is written as a series of _____ articles and _____ entries.
What are newspaper and journal?
This classic film actor was famous for old horror films and speaks the narration at the beginning of Michael Jackson's spooky song "Thriller."
Who is Vincent Price?