Halloween
Music
Literature
Facts
Extras
100

Before pumpkins, this vegetable was carved into jack-o-lanterns.

What is Turnips?

100

A 1984 song asked "Who you gonna call? This is the answer.

Who are the Ghostbusters?!

100

This author wrote the 1818 book "Frankenstein".

Who is Mary Shelley?

100

This is the average amount of calories collected by one child on Halloween.

What is 11,000 calories?

100

Transylvania is located in this country. 

Where is Romania?

200

Halloween originated during this time. (year?)

What is around 600 AD?

200

This is the album that Taylor Swift's "Haunted" appears on.

What is "Speak now"

200

The quote "Double, double, toil and trouble" comes from this.

What is Shakespeare's Macbeth?

200

This was the last year that someone was executed by the guillotine.

When was 1977?

200

This is what you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter. 

What is pumpkin pi?

300

This people brought the Halloween tradition to the United States.

Who are The Irish? 

During the potato famine in the mid 1800s

300

According to the lyrics of "Monster Mash", these are the guests of the Halloween party.

Who is Wolfman, Dracula, and his son?

300

In "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" Rowley and Greg manage to escape the teenagers on Halloween by hiding here.

Where is Grandma's House?

300

This is how long brain activity can continue after death.

What is up to 30 minutes?

300

This is another name for Halloween.

What is "All Hallows Eve"?

400

This was the original title for the Movie "Halloween".

What is "Babysitter Murders"?

400

This was the original title of Michael Jackson's song "Thriller".

What is "Starlight"?

400

In this Stephen King book, a family moves into a haunted hotel.

What is "The Shining"?

400
This is what you are scared of if you have Samhainophobia.

What is Halloween?

400

This is how much American spend on Halloween this year.

What is up to 6 billion dollars?

500

Halloween originated from this tradition.

What is the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain?

 (pronounced sow-win), which is Celtic for Summer’s end. It is a festival to welcome the harvest and usher in “the dark half of the year.”

500

This famous actor is also in a Halloween themed band named Dead Man's Bones.

Who is Ryan Gosling?

500

In Bram Stoker's classic novel, this was the original Name of Count Dracula.

Who is Count Wampyr?

500

This Alberta town was the first to mention "trick-or-treating" in print.

Where is Blackie, Alberta?

500

The famous magician Harry Houdini died on this day. (date, extra points for year)

When is October 31st, 1926?