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100+ Halloween Quiz Questions

Updated: Oct 27

Welcome to our spooky Halloween quiz questions post, where we dive into the eerie and fascinating world of Halloween trivia. Whether you're a Halloween enthusiast, a horror movie lover, or simply someone who enjoys the thrill of a good challenge, this blog is the perfect destination for all things Halloween-themed. Get ready to test your knowledge, discover intriguing facts, and embark on a journey through the dark and mysterious corners of Halloween lore.


In this blog, we have curated an extensive collection of 100+ Halloween quiz questions and answers that cover a wide range of topics related to this spine-tingling holiday. From the origins and traditions of Halloween to iconic horror movies, creepy characters, ghostly folklore, and everything in between, our quizzes are designed to engage and entertain both casual fans and die-hard Halloween aficionados. Whether you're hosting a Halloween party, organising a virtual trivia night, or simply looking to challenge yourself with some Halloween-themed brain teasers, our quizzes are here to provide an exciting and entertaining experience. Delve into the rich history of Halloween, test your knowledge of classic horror films, and uncover intriguing tidbits about the supernatural and macabre.

Halloween Quiz Questions
Halloween Quiz Questions

Halloween Quiz Questions


1. To the closest thousand, how many years old is Halloween?

Answer: 2000


2. Which country is believed to be the birthplace of Halloween?

Answer: Ireland


3. Which colour is most associated with Halloween?

Answer: Orange


4. What vegetable was originally carved during Halloween in Ireland?

Answer: Turnips


5. Which fruit is traditionally bobbed for on Halloween?

Answer: Apples


6. What is the word for "fear of Halloween"?

Answer: Samhainophobia


7. Which famous magician died on Halloween?

Answer: Harry Houdini


8. What is the highest-grossing horror movie of all time?

Answer: It (2017)


9. What is the name of the main antagonist in the "Halloween" movie franchise?

Answer: Michael Myers


10. In what year was the classic horror novel "Dracula" published?

Answer: 1897


11. Which popular candy is often associated with Halloween?

Answer: Candy corn


Q: What do you call a group of witches?

Answer: A coven


12. What is the name of the ghost in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?

Answer: Jacob Marley


13. What is the name of the iconic female monster in "Frankenstein"?

Answer: The Bride of Frankenstein


14. Which actor played the role of Count Dracula in the 1931 film "Dracula"?

Answer: Bela Lugosi


15. Who wrote the horror novel "Frankenstein"?

Answer: Mary Shelley


16. What is the fear of spiders called?

Answer: Arachnophobia


17. Which 1978 horror movie popularised the slasher film genre?

Answer: "Halloween"


18. What is the name of the killer doll in the "Child's Play" movie series?

Answer: Chucky


19. What is the name of the family in "The Addams Family"?

Answer: The Addams Family


20. What is the name of the town in which "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is set?

Answer: Halloween Town



21. Who played the lead role of Laurie Strode in the original "Halloween" film?

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis


22. What is the famous line associated with the movie "Psycho"?

Answer: "We all go a little mad sometimes"


23. Which holiday follows Halloween?

Answer: All Saints' Day


24. Which famous poet wrote the narrative poem "The Raven"?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe


25. What is the name of the villain in the "Scream" movie series?

Answer: Ghostface


26. Which classic horror novel tells the story of the creature named Frankenstein?

Answer: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley


27. What is the name of the masked killer in the "Friday the 13th" series?

Answer: Jason Voorhees


28. Who played the role of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"?

Answer: Anthony Perkins


29. What is the name of the clown in Stephen King's "It"?

Answer: Pennywise


30. In what year was the original "Night of the Living Dead" film released?

Answer: 1968


31. What is the name of the possessed girl in the movie "The Exorcist"?

Answer: Regan MacNeil


32. Which classic horror movie features a character named Jack Torrance?

Answer: "The Shining."


33. What is the name of the famous hotel in "The Shining"?

Answer: The Overlook Hotel


34. What is the name of the character played by Johnny Depp in "Sleepy Hollow"?

Answer: Ichabod Crane


35. In the TV show "Stranger Things," what is the name of the Upside Down monster?

Answer: Demogorgon


36. What is the name of the main villain in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series?

Answer: Freddy Krueger


37. What is the name of the possessed doll in "The Conjuring" universe?

Answer: Annabelle


38. Who directed the movie "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"?

Answer: Tobe Hooper


39. What is the name of the hotel in "The Haunting of Hill House"?

Answer: Hill House


40. In the movie "Get Out," what is the name of the mysterious organisation?

Answer: The Armitage Family



41. Which horror movie features a group of friends being tormented by a supernatural entity after watching a cursed videotape?

Answer: "The Ring"


42. What is the name of the main antagonist in the movie "Saw"?

Answer: Jigsaw


43. In the movie "Hocus Pocus," what is the name of the three witches?

Answer: Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson


44. Who played the role of the vampire Lestat in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"?

Answer: Tom Cruise


45. In what year was the horror film "The Blair Witch Project" released?

Answer: 1999


46. Whos clown doll is possessed in the movie "Poltergeist"?

Answer: Robbie's Freeling's


47. In the movie "The Omen," what is the name of the young boy who is believed to be the Antichrist?

Answer: Damien Thorn


48. What is the name of the cursed videotape in the movie "The Ring"?

Answer: The Samara Tape


49. Which horror movie features a group of friends being trapped in a cabin and terrorised by demonic entities?

Answer: "The Evil Dead"


50. What is the name of the fictional town where the events of "Stranger Things" take place?

Answer: Hawkins


53. In the TV show "American Horror Story," what is the name of the haunted house in the first season?

Answer: Murder House


54. What is the name of the vampire family in the "Twilight" series?

Answer: The Cullens


55. Which horror movie features a group of people trapped inside a mall during a zombie outbreak?

Answer: "Dawn of the Dead"


56. Who directed the horror film "A Quiet Place"?

Answer: John Krasinski


57. In the movie "The Exorcist," what is the famous line repeated by the possessed girl?

Answer: "The power of Christ compels you!"


58. Which horror movie features a group of people trapped in an isolated cabin and attacked by flesh-eating zombies?

Answer: "Evil Dead II"


59. Who played the lead role of Clarice Starling in the horror film "The Silence of the Lambs"?

Answer: Jodie Foster


60. What is the name of the demonic entity in the movie "Insidious"?

Answer: The Lipstick-Face Demon



61: Who directed the horror film "Get Out"?

Answer: Jordan Peele


62: In the 2014 Australian psychological horror film directed by Jennifer Kent, what is the name of the sinister creature that torments a mother and her son?

Answer: The Babadook


63.: Which horror movie is set in a remote Swedish village where a group of friends encounters a pagan cult?

Answer: "Midsommar"


64: What is the name of the possessed girl in "The Exorcist"?

Answer: Regan MacNeil


65: Which horror movie features a young woman being terrorised by a supernatural entity that only appears when the lights are out?

Answer: "Lights Out"


65: Who directed the horror film "Hereditary"?

Answer: Ari Aster


66: In the movie "Scream," what is the rule given by Randy about surviving a horror movie?

Answer: "Don't have sex"


65: What is the name of the killer in the horror film "Hush" who terrorizes a deaf and mute woman?

Answer: The Man


66: Which horror movie revolves around a group of college students who summon a malevolent spirit through a Ouija board?

Answer: "Ouija"


67: Who played the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "Hannabil" series?

Answer: Mads Mikkelsen


68: What is the name of the demonic nun featured in "The Conjuring 2" and "The Nun"?

Answer: Valak


69: In the movie "Saw," what is the name of the puppet used by the killer to communicate with his victims?

Answer: Billy the Puppet


70: What is the name of the fictional town where the events of the TV show "Twin Peaks" take place?

Answer: Twin Peaks


71: In the movie "The Witch," what is the name of the goat believed to be a devil in disguise?

Answer: Black Phillip


72: Who directed the horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)?

Answer: Tobe Hooper


73: What is the name of the demonologist couple who investigates paranormal cases in "The Conjuring" series?

Answer: Ed and Lorraine Warren


74: What is the name of the iconic horror movie that takes place in the fictional town of Woodsboro?

Answer: "Scream"


75: Who directed the horror film "Rosemary's Baby"?

Answer: Roman Polanski


76: Which horror movie features a group of people trapped inside a house during a zombie apocalypse?

Answer: "Night of the Living Dead"


77: What is the name of the haunted hotel featured in the horror miniseries "American Horror Story: Hotel"?

Answer: Hotel Cortez


78: Who played the role of Leatherface in the original "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974)?

Answer: Gunnar Hansen


79: In the movie "The Cabin in the Woods," what is the name of the organisation controlling the events in the cabin?

Answer: The Facility


80: What is the name of the hotel in the movie "Psycho"?

Answer: Bates Motel



81: In the movie "Carrie," what is the name of the telekinetic high school student?

Answer: Carrie White


82: What is the name of the possessed girl in "The Ring"?

Answer: Samara Morgan


83: Which horror movie follows a group of people trapped in a supermarket while supernatural creatures roam outside?

Answer: "The Mist"


84: Who played the role of the masked killer Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" (1978)?

Answer: Nick Castle


85: In the movie "The Blair Witch Project," what is the name of the witch believed to haunt the woods?

Answer: Elly Kedward


86: Who directed the horror film "It Follows"?

Answer: David Robert Mitchell


87: In the movie "The Conjuring," what is the name of the demon that possesses the Perron family's farmhouse?

Answer: Bathsheba Sherman


88: Who played the role of Laurie Strode in the 2018 "Halloween" movie?

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis


89. Which artist recorded the song Somebody's Watching Me

Answer Rockwell


90: Who directed the horror film "Psycho"?

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock


91: Which horror movie franchise features a group of teenagers being hunted by a supernatural serial killer wearing a hockey mask?

Answer: "Friday the 13th"


92: Who directed the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street"?

Answer: Wes Craven


93: In the movie "The Blair Witch Project," what is the name of the fictional town where the events are said to take place?

Answer: Burkittsville


94: What is the name of the character played by Johnny Depp in the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street"?

Answer: Glen Lantz


95: What is the name of the hotel in the movie "Psycho"?

Answer: Bates Motel


96: Who directed the horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003)?

Answer: Marcus Nispel


97: In the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street," what is the name of the main character who has recurring nightmares about Freddy Krueger?

Answer: Nancy Thompson


98. What is the name of the possessed girl in the movie "The Exorcism of Emily Rose"?

Answer: Emily Rose


99: Who directed the horror film "The Conjuring 2"?

Answer: James Wan


100: In the movie "The Omen," what is the name of the child who is believed to be the Antichrist?

Answer: Damien Thorn



101: Which horror movie franchise features a group of paranormal investigators with Proton packs?

Answer: "Ghostbusters"


102: In the movie "Halloween," what is the name of the fictional town where Michael Myers goes on his killing spree?

Answer: Haddonfield


103: Which horror movie features a group of people who must stay silent to avoid being hunted by creatures with hypersensitive hearing?

Answer: "A Quiet Place"


104: Who wrote the novel "The Invisible Man"?

Answer H.G. Wells


105: Which horror villain has the most on screen kills?

Answer: Jason Voorhees (166)


106: Which band released the song "Dragula"?

Answer: Rob Zombie


107: What is the name of the theme song from the movie "The Exorcist"?

Answer: Tubular Bells


108: Who recorded the song Thriller?

Answer: Michael Jackson


109: Which ancient Celtic festival is considered the precursor to modern-day Halloween?

Answer: Samhain


110: What do people commonly wear on Halloween to scare away ghosts?

Answer: Costumes or masks


111: What is the tradition of trick-or-treating on Halloween believed to have originated from?

Answer: The medieval practice of "souling" or "guising."


112: What is the name of the annual parade held in New York City on Halloween?

Answer: The Village Halloween Parade


113: What is the name for the practice of telling fortunes and predicting the future on Halloween?

Answer: Divination




In conclusion, these 100+ Halloween quiz questions and answers offer a wide range of spooky, eerie, and entertaining content for any Halloween-themed event or trivia night. Whether you're hosting a gathering, organizing a party, or simply looking to test your knowledge of Halloween trivia, these questions will provide a fun and engaging experience for participants. From Halloween history and traditions to horror movies, iconic characters, and creepy folklore, these quiz questions cover a broad spectrum of Halloween-related topics. Get ready to dive into the world of Halloween with these thrilling and captivating quiz questions that are sure to add excitement and entertainment to your Halloween celebrations.



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