General: Origins
Halloween is the second busiest holiday after this one
What is Christmas?🎄
This is a superstition generally associated with cats
What is Bad luck?
The name of the Gothic novel about a scientist who creates a monster is called this
What is Frankenstein?
This haunted home is based on a true story of Ronald Defeo "haunting" in Long Island, New Jersey.
What is the Amityville Horror?
This instrument is played by Wednesday
What is the Cello?
According to the song, this family were 'creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky'
What is the Addams Family?
People "bob" for this fruit on Halloween
What are Apples?
Halloween originates from this country
What is Ireland?
Vampires are believed to be doing the following thing to gain power and survive
What is sucking/drinking human blood?
What is the name of the clown in Stephen King's "IT?"
Who is Pennywise the Dancing Clown?
This popular netflix series, based on Shirley Jackson's novel, showcases the haunting of five siblings from childhood to adulthood?
What is the Haunting of Hill House?
This is how many times you have to say Beetlejuice’s name to get him to show up...
What is three?
The movie that these lyrics come from "If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call" is called
What is the Ghostbusters?
What do the two M's in M&M's stand for?
Mars and Murrie
In this American State, which is part of the Bible Belt, you are not allowed to dress up as a nun or a priest
What is Alabama?
This can harm vampires
What is wooden stakes / silver bullets / sunlight / garlic ?
This is the name of the father in "The Addams Family."
This family-friendly and funny Disney film features a haunted ______ starring Eddie Murphy
What is the Haunted Mansion?
This movie features a clown that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children
IT
In this song's music video Michael Jackson transforms and dances as a zombie
What is Thriller?
These baked, spiced goods were offered by villagers to the spirts during Samhein....
What are "Soul Cakes?"
In this southern European country, children go from door to door on All Saints Day asking for Pão de Deus
What is Portgual?
Transylvania otherwise known as home to Count Dracula is located in this country
What is Romania?
This classic Romantic-era writer is called the "Mother of Science Fiction" or "Mother of Monsters" BONUS POINTS 200: If you can give me the age she wrote the novel Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley? (BONUS POINTS: 16)
This horror film character wields a glove with razors for fingers and lives on this very specific street
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?
Tim Burton's features the headless horseman in the following movie
What is Sleepy Hollow?
There is a band from North America called "this Pumpkins."
What is the Smashing?
Bakers would hide this knitting tool, which originally protects your thumbs, in traditional Irish Barmbrack cakes
What is a thimble?
The name of the holiday that coincides with Halloween in Mexico is called
What is Dia de Los Muertos? (Day of the Dead)
A group of witches is called
What is a Coven?
The house had Jack Nicholsen stark, raving mad in the movie adaptation of what Stephen King book?
What is "The Shining?"
This character portrayed by Johnny Depp is a barber who kills all his clients and on a very specific street?
Who is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
What are the names of the Three Sanderson Sisters in Disney's Hocus Pocus?
What is Winifred, Sarah, and Mary?
This song by The Cranberries is titled after another name for an undead person
What is Zombie?
Nougat, caramel and peanuts are included in the first ever fun-size chocolate bars
What is Snickers?
Pumpkins can be orange, white, red, yellow, green and this other color
What is Blue?
Another more common name for Lycanthropes
What is Werewolves?
In the cult Harry Potter series Voldemort has divided his soul into the seven of these...
What is a Horcrux? BONUS POINTS 700:
The girl from 'The Ring' whisper the following thing on the phone
What is Seven Days?
Hannibal Lecter is played by this actor in its first and most horrifying film depiction
Who is Anthony Hopkins?
Finish the lyrics from "This is Halloween": "This is Halloween, this is Halloween. _____ scream in the dead of night."
What are Pumpkins?
The original name for Candy corn is
Chicken Feed
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The century during which the tradition of trick-or-treating began in the United States is the following
What are the 1920s?
This famous magician actually died on Halloween
Who is Harry Houdini?
The classic novel Dracula was written by
Who is Bram Stoker?
This 90s comedy-horror features a house with a certain number of ghosts are trapped inside by a fiendish uncle. Matthew Lillard and Tony Shaloub star in this movie...
What is "Thirteen Ghosts?"
The name given to Santa Claus by Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's movie Nightmare before Christmas
What is Sandy Claus?
In this song Billie Eilish sings from the perspective of a monster under someone's bed
What is Bury a Friend?
The decade where ‘fun size’ chocolate bars were first introduced
What are the 1960s?
The term used for a fear of ghosts is called
What is Phasmophobia?
What sort of mask does Michael Myers wear in the original Halloween?
What is a William Shatner mask as Captain Kirk from Star Trek?
This many witches appear in Shakespeare's Macbeth
What is three?
This movie originally shot in 1959 and again in 1999 stars an eccentric billionaire offering a cash prize for five-unsuspecting guests to survive the night in his haunted mansion?
What is The House on Haunted Hill?
This iconic movie claims to be the most successful horror franchise in history
What is the Conjuring series?
In the movie "Hocus Pocus", the song that the Sanderson sisters sing at the Halloween party is called
What is I Put a Spell on You?
This is the percentage of people in the USA that prefer chocolate as their Halloween candy
What is 70%?
The day after Halloween is called...
What is called "All Saints Day?"
Where is the world's longest haunted house?
Where is The Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, Ohio, is a whopping 3,564 feet long and located 80 feet underground!
This was Dracula's real name
Who is Vlad the Impaler ?
(Vlad III)
This Stephen King novel adapted into a 2002 limited tv series featured a house, that was truly just evil
What is Rose Red?
In 1973, the movie that convinced Americans to throw away their Ouija boards is called
What is The Exorcist?
Finish the lyrics from “monster Mash”: “I was working in the _____ late on night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight.”
What is Lab?
America's favourite Halloween candy is
What are Reese's Cups?
Samhainophobia is the fear of the following thing
What is Halloween?
Jack o' Lanterns originate from what Irish Folktale about a man who tricked the Devil, and now roams the world with a lantern escaping his grasp.
What is Stingy Jack?
Bram Stroker is from what country originally?
What is Ireland?
In the original Friday the 13th (1980) who is the killer?
Pamela Voorhees
The name of the mythical creature used by adults to frighten children into good behaviour, is synonymous with a music style from the late 1970s
What is the Bogeyman?
Vince Guaraldi wrote and preformed the music for this famous Halloween cartoon that is played every year.
What is "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"?
The first jack-o'-lanterns were made from these hardy vegetable
What are turnips & potatoes?