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30 Halloween quiz questions

Thirty questions over four rounds: traditions, horror films, monsters and myths, and a kids’ round. This is the free version. The full Halloween quiz has 60 harder questions and a picture round.

Questions
30
Rounds
4
Difficulty
Easy to hard

Round 01 / Traditions

Halloween traditions

  1. What is a carved pumpkin with a candle inside called?

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    A jack-o'-lantern

    Also accept: Jack o lantern, Jack-o-lantern

  2. What is the Halloween game of catching apples floating in water, using only your teeth, usually called in England?

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    Apple bobbing

    Also accept: Bobbing for apples, Dooking

    In Scotland it's called dooking.

  3. "Hallowe'en" is short for which longer name?

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    All Hallows' Eve

    Also accept: All Hallows Eve, All Hallows' Evening

    The evening before All Hallows' (All Saints') Day.

  4. Before pumpkins caught on, which vegetable did people in Ireland and Scotland carve into lanterns?

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    A turnip

    Also accept: Turnip, Swede, Neep

    In Scotland it was often a swede, which many Scots call a turnip anyway.

  5. Which Christian feast day falls on 1 November, the day after Halloween?

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    All Saints' Day

    Also accept: All Hallows, All Saints

  6. Which Mexican festival, held on 1 and 2 November, remembers family members who have died?

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    The Day of the Dead

    Also accept: Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead

    Día de los Muertos.

  7. Which ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest is Halloween thought to grow out of?

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    Samhain

    It's pronounced "sow-in".

Round 02 / Film

Horror films

  1. What is the name of the doll possessed by a killer in the "Child's Play" films?

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    Chucky

  2. In "Hocus Pocus", how many Sanderson sisters are there?

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    Three

    Also accept: 3

  3. In which 1978 film does Michael Myers first appear?

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    Halloween

    Directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the famous theme.

  4. Which Stephen King story, filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, is set in the Overlook Hotel?

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    The Shining

    Also accept: Shining

  5. In "Ghostbusters" (1984), which giant sweet-shaped creature stomps through New York?

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    The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

    Also accept: Stay Puft, Marshmallow Man

  6. In which Tim Burton film does Michael Keaton play the "ghost with the most"?

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    Beetlejuice

  7. What is the name of the masked killer in "Scream" (1996)?

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    Ghostface

    Also accept: Ghost Face

  8. Which 1973 film about a possessed girl became the first horror film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?

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    The Exorcist

    Also accept: Exorcist

Round 03 / Myths & legends

Monsters and myths

  1. Under what kind of moon is a werewolf said to transform?

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    A full moon

    Also accept: Full moon, Full

  2. Which region of Romania is linked with Count Dracula?

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    Transylvania

  3. What is the name for a group of witches?

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    A coven

    Also accept: Coven

  4. In Mary Shelley's novel, is Frankenstein the monster or the scientist?

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    The scientist

    Also accept: Scientist, Victor Frankenstein

    Victor Frankenstein makes the creature, which is never given a name.

  5. In Greek myth, which monster had live snakes for hair?

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    Medusa

    Anyone who looked at her was turned to stone.

  6. Who wrote the novel "Frankenstein", published in 1818?

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    Mary Shelley

    Also accept: Shelley

    She started it aged 18, during a ghost-story contest with Lord Byron.

  7. In Bram Stoker's novel, at which English seaside town does Dracula come ashore?

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    Whitby

    He arrives in a shipwreck, in the form of a large dog.

  8. Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", featuring the Headless Horseman?

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    Washington Irving

    Also accept: Irving

Round 04 / Kids can play

The kids' round

  1. What do witches fly on?

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    A broomstick

    Also accept: Broomstick, Broom

  2. Which night-time bird says "twit-twoo"?

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    An owl

    Also accept: Owl

  3. What is a mummy wrapped in?

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    Bandages

    Also accept: Bandage, Cloth, Linen

  4. What is the name of the friendly ghost in the old cartoons?

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    Casper

    Also accept: Casper the Friendly Ghost

  5. Which sticky Halloween treat is an apple on a stick, covered in hard caramel?

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    A toffee apple

    Also accept: Toffee apple, Candy apple

  6. Which bone protects your brain?

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    The skull

    Also accept: Skull

  7. Bats hunt in the dark by listening for echoes. What is this called?

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    Echolocation

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30 questions to play or host

  • Every question and answer on this page
  • Play along with automatic marking
  • Present on screen, copy or print
  • No host pack or team answer sheets
  • No picture round or tie-breakers
  • Anyone can look these questions up

How to run it

  1. Dim the lights for the horror film round and read each question in your most unsettling voice.
  2. Run the kids' round first while the little ones are still in costume and full of sugar.
  3. For a tie-breaker: how much does the heaviest pumpkin ever grown weigh? Closest guess wins. (Check the latest Guinness World Record on the night: it's over a tonne.)