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Halloween Trivia Questions
Which item is banned during Halloween in Hollywood?
Answer: Silly String.
What location holds the Guinness World Record for the most jack-o’-lanterns lit in one location?
Answer: Keene, New Hampshire, United States.
What do the Halloween colors of black and orange represent?
Answer: Orange represents harvest and warmth, while black represents death and darkness.
Which mammal that is capable of flying is associated with Halloween?
Answer: The Bat.
What was the first mainstream Hollywood film to feature a werewolf?
Answer: Werewolf of London, released by Universal Pictures in 1935.
In what year was Halloween celebrated for the first time in the United States?
Answer: 1840s.
What city in the United States was the first to organize an official Halloween celebration?
Answer: Anoka, Minnesota.
How many calories are in a typical trick-or-Halloween treater’s stash?
Answer: 11,000 calories.
When did the modern version of Halloween candy trick-or-treating become popular?
Answer: 1940s.
According to superstitions, how can you get rid of a ghost?
Answer: Walk around the ghost nine times, and it will disappear.
What was the original name of candy corn?
Answer: Chicken feed
What two candy bars were the first to come in “fun size”?
Answer: Snickers and Milky Way
In which decade did the term “trick or treat” originate in the United States?
Answer: The 1920s
How is the Dum-Dums mystery flavor lollipop made?
Answer: At the end of the production run, Dum-Dums mixes the leftover candy together to form a new (mysterious) flavor for its lollipops.
What is the term for a fear of Halloween?
Answer: Samhainophobia.
On average, how many cups of sugar from Halloween candy do kids consume each year?
Answer: Three cups
How far in advance does Hershey’s start production on Halloween candy?
Answer: Six months in advance
How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?
Answer: 35 million pounds
What day is National Candy Corn Day?
Answer: Oct. 30
How many pounds of chocolate are sold during Halloween week?
Answer: 90 million pounds
In Roald Dahl’s The Witches, what does The Grand High Witch turn into?
Answer: A mouse
In the Halloween movie “Hocus Pocus,” what do the Sanderson Sisters need to become immortal?
Answer: They need to suck the life force from children
What is the main character’s name in the Tim Burton film The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Jack Skellington
The movie ‘Annabelle’ is based on an actual doll? Is that true or false?
Answer: True
In the Disney movie Hocus Pocus, what song do the Sanderson Sisters perform at the Halloween party?
Answer: I Put a Spell On You, a song written by Jay Hawkins.
Which movie is about a teenage girl with superpowers who becomes a villain?
Answer: Carrie
Which sea creature has inspired plenty of monster flicks?
Answer: The shark
Which horror movie features a serial killer wearing a William Shatner mask?
Answer: Halloween
Which is the famous fictional family with a severed, moving hand living with them?
Answer: The Addams Family
Can you remember the name of a famous hotel where vampires, witches, and other scary creatures live together?
Answer: Hotel Transylvanian
In the Harry Potter series, what ghost haunts the Hogwarts school on Halloween night?
Answer: Nearly Headless Nick
Which ancient Roman festival is believed to have influenced Halloween?
Answer: Feralia
What is the traditional Halloween game that involves telling someone’s fortune by pulling petals from a flower?
Answer: Love me, love me not
Which famous author wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?
Answer: Washington Irving
In Mexico, what is the traditional candy given out during Dia de los Muertos?
Answer: Calaveras de Azucar
What is the name of the black cat associated with Halloween and superstition?
Answer: Binx
Which Irish city is believed to be the birthplace of Halloween?
Answer: Derry
What is the traditional Halloween activity of dressing up in costumes called?
Answer: Costume party
Which classic monster is often associated with Halloween?
Answer: Vampires
What is the name of the famous cartoon character who is known for saying, “I’m not bad; I’m just drawn that way”?
Answer: Betty Boop
In what year was Disney’s Tower Of Terror attraction opened?
Answer: 1994
Who is the evil warlock in Halloweentown (1998)?
Answer: Kalabar
Which actress plays Sarah Sanderson in Hocus Pocus (1993)?
Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker
Who is the top scarer in Monsters Inc. (2001)?
Answer: Sulley
Who is Jack Skellington’s main rival in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)?
Answer: Oogie Boogie
What is Miguel’s dog’s name in the movie Coco (2017)?
Answer: Dante
Who plays Maleficent in the 2014 film?
Answer: Angelina Jolie
Which famous twins starred in the 2005 film Twitches?
Answer: Tia and Tamera Mowry
In The Haunted Mansion (2003), what is Jim’s job?
Answer: A real estate agent
In Disneyland, where can you find 300+ different pumpkins?
Answer: On Main Street, U.S.A
In what year were fun-size candy bars introduced?
Answer: 1961
How many flavors of Kit-Kat are sold in Japan?
Answer: Over 350
What is the name of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter cup?
Answer: Harry Burnett Reese
How many licks does it take to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop on average?
Answer: 144 to 252
Which US president famously loved Jelly Belly Jelly Beans?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
What is the most popular Halloween candy in the US?
Answer: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
How far in advance does Hershey’s start production of Halloween candy?
Answer: Six months
In which country did the tradition of dressing up in costumes for Halloween, or “guising,” originate?
Answer: Scotland.
What classic monster is often depicted as a green, reanimated corpse with bolts in its neck?
Answer: Frankenstein’s Monster.
What is the name of the cat in “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” which also happens to be a talking witch’s familiar?
Answer: Salem.
Pumpkins first originated from which part of the world?
Answer: Central America.
Where does the term “jack lantern” come from?
Answer: The term is very closely connected to the Irish mythology of Stingy Jack, a drunken who makes a deal with Satan and is bound to wander the Earth with only a hollowed turnip to guide him.
What was candy corn originally called?
Answer: Chicken Feed.
The First Lady ever to have decorated the White House for Halloween was __?
Answer: Mamie Eisenhower.
What Celtic tradition led to trick-or-treating as we know it today?
Answer: For the purposes of the Samhain celebration, people would put food or treats out to pacify evil spirits.
What is the name of the headless horseman in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?
Answer: The Headless Horseman or the Hessian Horseman.
According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what are you meant to see?
Answer: Your future husband or wife.
What does the word “Halloween” mean?
Answer: It means “hallowed evening” or “holy night”.
What do people traditionally “bob” for at Halloween?
Answer: Apples.
In Scotland, what vegetable used to be carved into a jack-o-lantern?
Answer: A turnip.
What do you call a group of witches?
Answer: A coven.
Where did the idea for Final Destination originate from?
Answer: A spec script for The X-Files
Who did Tim Burton want to cast as Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice?
Answer: Sammy Davis Jr.
Who did Drew Barrymore request that her blonde wig in Scream be modeled after?
Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer’s character’s hair in Scarface
Where did the vampires look for Jack Skellington in Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Three vampires
Hocus Pocus was originally what?
Answer: A short story
In The Exorcist, who was the character of Chris MacNeil based on in real life?
Answer: Shirley MacLaine
How many ingredients are in a Butterfinger bar?
Answer: 19
How did bobbing for apples begin?
Answer: As part of an ancient Roman Festival
Why does candy corn have its corn shape?
Answer: Because ~nature~-inspired candy was all the rage in the 1880s.
What’s the name of the fictional town in the movie “The Lost Boys?”
Answer: Santa Clara, aka the “Murder Capital of the World”
What is the most popular Halloween candy in America?
Answer: Skittles.
What is the name of the practice of going door-to-door for treats on Halloween?
Answer: Trick-or-treating.
What is the “correct” spelling of Halloween?
Answer: Halloween was originally spelled “Hallowe’en,” a contraction of “All Hallows Even.”
What two countries popularized Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating?
Answer: Scotland and Ireland.
How many pieces of candy does the average house give to each trick-or-treater?
Answer: Two pieces.
What horror movie was the first American film ever to show a toilet on screen?
Answer: Psycho.
One particular serial killer inspired Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Who was it?
Answer: Ed Gein.
What was the first horror movie to be nominated for an Academy Award?
Answer: The Exorcist earned a whopping 10 Oscar nominations in 1974, including a Best Supporting Actress nod for then-15-year-old Linda Blair.
Who was Wes Craven’s first choice to play Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Answer: David Warner.
What were the first-ever fun-size candy bars?
Answer: Snickers and Milky Way.
Before pumpkins, which root vegetable did the Irish and Scottish carve on Halloween?
Answer: Turnips
Before people used pumpkins for jack-o’-lanterns, what did they carve?
Answer: Turnips or potatoes
Why was Halloween nearly canceled as a holiday in the 1930s?
Answer: Pranksters and vandals were causing millions of dollars of damage to U.S. cities on Halloween night
Why do we trick or treat?
Answer: Trick-or-treating is thought to have began as a way for homeowners to reward pranksters for not vandalizing their home on Halloween
What popular candy was originally designed to resemble chicken feed?
Answer: Candy corn
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, how many potential stops for trick-or-treaters were there in 2020?
Answer: There were 126.8 million occupied homes for trick-or-treaters to visit
Besides horror, what other genre did “Dracula” author Bram Stoker publish books under?
Answer: Romance
What ghoulish 1984 song returned to the charts on Billboard’s “Hot 100” in October of 2023?
Answer: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
When selling a house, is the homeowner obligated to disclose that it’s haunted?
Answer: No. A majority of states don’t require sellers to disclose paranormal activity or any other dubious stigmas like murder or ghosts
What historic weather event occurred on Halloween in 1991?
Answer: The “Halloween Blizzard” of 1991, which dumped three feet of snow and two inches of ice across parts of the Midwest
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