Origins
Halloween originates from this ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest.
What is Samhain?
The fear of spiders is known as this.
What is arachnophobia?
Jordan Peele’s 2017 breakout horror film involving hypnosis is called?
What is Get Out?
The most haunted hotel in Utah can be found in which city?
Dracula is based on which historical figure?
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
The tradition of carving jack-o’-lanterns originally used this vegetable.
What is a turnip?
The fear of dentists is known as this. Daily Double
What is dentophobia or odontophobia ?
The 2017 film It, a killer clown terrorizing children in what city and state?
What is Derry, Maine?
This famous serial killer lived in Utah and attended the University of Utah Law school was responsible for the disappearance of many women?
Who is Ted Bundy?
This large, hairy creature is said to roam the Pacific Northwest.
What is Bigfoot?
The word “Halloween” is short for this phrase.
What is All Hallows’ Eve?
The “spooky” glowing lights seen in marshes and bogs are caused by igniting gases and are called this.
What are will-o’-the-wisps?
Michael Myers iconic mask is a spray painted and distorted version of which actor?
Who is William Shatner?
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is in West Virginia, but Utah has its own spooky abandoned asylum near Provo called this.
What is the Utah State Hospital?
In Mexican folklore, this ghostly woman weeps while searching for her lost children.
Who is La Llorona?
This country is credited with popularizing Halloween in the U.S. after its immigrants brought traditions in the 19th century.
What is Ireland?
In 1818, this novel used early concepts of electricity (“galvanism”) to explain how a corpse could be reanimated.
What is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
In The Ring (2002), victims die this many days after watching the cursed videotape.
What is 7 Days?
This spooky Utah location is infamous for UFO sightings and inspired a Netflix documentary. Daily Double
What is Skinwalker Ranch
In the United States misbehaving children are given coal. In this country misbehaving children are whipped, kidnapped, dragged to hell to be tormented and eaten by Krampus
What is Austria or Germany?
Bobbing for apples was a popular fortune-telling game during Halloween celebrations in this country.
What is Scotland?
Teeth glow under backlight because of what chemical.
What is phosphorus?
The 2018 horror film where silence is key to survival against monsters that hunt by sound have two weaknesses, what are they?
What are high pitched sound, and unable to swim in water?
The Utah state fossil, often called the “king of the seas,” shares its name with a terrifying sea reptile.
What is the Mosasaur?
The word “witch” comes from the Old English word wicce, which means this.
What is “wise woman”?