- Question: What year did It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first air?
Answer: 1966 - Question: How did early New Englanders protect their homes from evil spirits?
Answer: By hiding their shoes in the walls - Question: What vegetable was once thought to have supernatural powers on Halloween?
Answer: Cabbage - Question: What is the significance of bobbing for apples during Halloween?
Answer: It was originally a fortune-telling game, where it was believed that the first person to catch an apple would be the next to marry. - Question: Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Answer: Washington Irving - Question: Who wrote the 1818 classic book Frankenstein?
Answer: Mary Shelley - Question: How many witches are in Shakespeare’s Macbeth?
Answer: Three - Question: In 2023, Travis Gienger nabbed the Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin. How much did it weigh?
Answer: 2,749 pounds - Question: Who brought the Halloween tradition to the United States?
Answer: The Irish, during the potato famine in the mid-1800s - Question: Which Roman goddess is thought to be honored on Halloween?
Answer: Pomona - Question: Which U.S. city hosts the world’s largest Halloween parade?
Answer: New York City, for the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade - Question: What is another name for Halloween?
Answer: All Hallows’ Eve - Question: Why do some people wear their clothes inside out on Halloween?
Answer: They believe they’ll see a witch at midnight - Question: When did Halloween start?
Answer: Around 600 AD with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain - Question: 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 - Question: Which Halloween candy was originally referred to as chicken feed?
Answer: Candy corn - Question: According to a well-known song, which family is said to be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky?
Answer: The Addams Family - Question: Before pumpkins, which root vegetables did the Irish and Scottish carve on Halloween?
Answer: Turnips - Question: What is having a fear of Halloween called?
Answer: Samhainophobia - Question: Which first lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween?
Answer: Mamie Eisenhower, in 1958 - Question: Which U.S. president told a group of schoolkids that the White House was haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: George H.W. Bush, in 1989 - Question: Why are the Halloween colors orange and black?
Answer: Orange is for pumpkins and harvest, and black represents night, death or darkness - Question: In what Stephen King book does a family move into a haunted hotel?
Answer: The Shining - Question: Who penned the 1962 song “Monster Mash”?
Answer: Bobby “Boris” Pickett - Question: According to the lyrics of “Monster Mash,” who are the guests of the Halloween party?
Answer: Wolfman, Dracula and his son - Question: Vincent Price provides the spooky monologue in which popular Halloween song?
Answer: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” - Question: What do you call a man who practices witchcraft?
Answer: A warlock - Question: Where is Transylvania located?
Answer: Romania - Question: A 1984 song asked, “Who you gonna call?” What is the answer?
Answer: Ghostbusters! - Question: What creature from folklore is said to steal children on Halloween if they misbehave?
Answer: The Boogeyman
