🎃Halloween Trivia Questions and Answers
Monsters, candy, scary movies and genuinely strange history — everything an October party needs. Sorted easy to hard, answers included, no gore required.
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On what date is Halloween celebrated?
AnswerOctober 31
What do children traditionally say at the door on Halloween?
Answer"Trick or treat"
Which vegetable did the Irish originally carve before pumpkins?
AnswerTurnips
What is a witch's classic mode of transportation?
AnswerA broomstick
Count Dracula is associated with which region of Romania?
AnswerTransylvania
Which animal crossing your path is considered bad luck?
AnswerA black cat
What do vampires famously avoid — garlic or onions?
AnswerGarlic
A werewolf transforms under what kind of moon?
AnswerA full moon
What are the three traditional colors of candy corn?
AnswerYellow, orange and white
Medium
The room starts thinking now.
"Halloween" is a contraction of what older name?
AnswerAll Hallows' Eve
Halloween traces its roots to which ancient Celtic festival?
AnswerSamhain
Who wrote the 1897 novel Dracula?
AnswerBram Stoker
Who wrote Frankenstein?
AnswerMary Shelley
In the Halloween films, what is the masked killer's name?
AnswerMichael Myers
In Hocus Pocus, what is the surname of the three witch sisters?
AnswerSanderson
In Frankenstein, is "Frankenstein" the monster or its creator?
AnswerThe creator — Victor Frankenstein
Which country celebrates the Day of the Dead in early November?
AnswerMexico
Hard
For the ones who watch horror in the daytime, alone.
Who directed the original 1978 film Halloween?
AnswerJohn Carpenter
The Salem witch trials took place in what year?
Answer1692
The Headless Horseman appears in which Washington Irving story?
AnswerThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
What is the fear of Halloween called?
AnswerSamhainophobia
Botanically speaking, is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
AnswerA fruit
In the original Ghostbusters, what giant mascot rampages through New York?
AnswerThe Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Which author wrote the horror classics It and The Shining?
AnswerStephen King
Edgar Allan Poe's famous 1845 poem features which bird?
AnswerA raven
How to run this round well
- →Costume bonus points are the easiest engagement trick of the year — announce them before question one.
- →Mix the movie questions with the history ones; the horror fans and the history fans are never the same table.
- →Save "Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster" for late in the night. It starts exactly one argument, every time.
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