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Halloween Quiz

Twelve fact-checked Halloween questions in three rounds: sweets and traditions, spooky films and cartoons, and celebrity costumes. Most use pictures shown only in the template. Suits adults and teens.

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  • 10minutes
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The rounds

Round 1

Sweets and traditions

Candy, costumes and apple bobbing: three questions to ease in.

3 questions

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  • Short answer
Round 2

Spooky screens

Halloween films and cartoons, from stop-motion to Peanuts.

5 questions

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  • Short answer
Round 3

Celebrity costumes

Which star turned up as which character? Four picture questions from the template.

4 questions

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All questions and answers

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Round 1: Sweets and traditions3 questions
Question 1 路 Pick answer

What's this popular American candy called? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

  1. Pumpkin bits
  2. Candy corn
  3. Witches' teeth
  4. Golden stakes
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Answer:

Candy corn

Fun fact: It was first sold as 'Chicken Feed', and the tri-colour kernels are credited to George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia.

Question 2 路 Pick answer

What's the most popular Halloween costume for kids in 2021?

  1. Elsa
  2. Spiderman
  3. Ghost
  4. Pumpkin
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Answer:

Spiderman

Fun fact: The ranking comes from a National Retail Federation survey of 8,061 US consumers in early September 2021, in which Elsa did not make the children's top ten.

Question 3 路 Short answer

What's this activity called? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

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Answer:

Apple bobbing

Also accepted: Applebobbing, Apple bob, Applebob, Bobbing for apples, Bobbing for apple, Apple-bobbing, Bobbing apples

Fun fact: The game is usually traced to a courting ritual in which a successful catch was said to predict a future partner, though exactly how it reached Halloween is mostly inference.

Round 2: Spooky screens5 questions
Question 4 路 Pick answer

Which of these images is from The Nightmare Before Christmas? (Picture question: the images are in the template, so options are labelled Picture 1 to Picture 3.)

  1. Picture 1
  2. Picture 2
  3. Picture 3
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Answer:

Picture 3

Fun fact: Henry Selick directed it from characters created by Tim Burton, who produced it, and it is made with stop-motion animation.

Question 5 路 Short answer

What's the name of this house? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

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Answer:

Monster House

Also accepted: Monster, Monsterhouse, The Monster House

Fun fact: Gil Kenan directed it as his first feature, with Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg as executive producers, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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Which of these is Wednesday Addams from the 2019 Addams Family movie? (Picture question: the images are in the template, so options are labelled Picture 1 to Picture 4.)

  1. Picture 1
  2. Picture 2
  3. Picture 3
  4. Picture 4
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Answer:

Picture 2

Fun fact: The 2019 Addams Family is an animated film released on 11 October 2019, with Charlize Theron voicing Morticia and Oscar Isaac voicing Gomez.

Question 7 路 Pick answer

What is the name of this Halloween movie from 2007? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

  1. Trick 'r Treat
  2. Creepshow
  3. It
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Answer:

Trick 'r Treat

Fun fact: Sam, the trick-or-treater with a burlap sack over his head, appears whenever someone breaks a Halloween tradition. The film premiered in December 2007 and reached home video in October 2009.

Question 8 路 Pick answer

In the 1966 classic 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown', which character explains the tale of the Great Pumpkin?

  1. Snoopy
  2. Sally
  3. Linus
  4. Schroeder
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Answer:

Linus

Fun fact: The special premiered on CBS on 27 October 1966. Sally keeps vigil with Linus in the pumpkin patch, and the 'Great Pumpkin' he thinks he sees turns out to be Snoopy.

Round 3: Celebrity costumes4 questions
Question 9 路 Pick answer

Who's dressed as Beetlejuice? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

  1. Bruno Mars
  2. will.i.am
  3. Childish Gambino
  4. The Weeknd
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Answer:

The Weeknd

Fun fact: The costume was worn to Heidi Klum's 19th annual Halloween party in 2018, with Bella Hadid beside him as Lydia Deetz in the red wedding dress.

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Who's dressed as The Joker? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

  1. Marcus Rashford
  2. Lewis Hamilton
  3. Tyson Fury
  4. Conor McGregor
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Answer:

Lewis Hamilton

Fun fact: The look was worn at Heidi Klum's Halloween party in New York in 2016, a day after he won the Mexican Grand Prix, and copied Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight (2008).

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Who's dressed as Pennywise? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

  1. Dua Lipa
  2. Cardi B
  3. Ariana Grande
  4. Demi Lovato
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Answer:

Demi Lovato

Fun fact: The look was worn at her own Halloween party in Los Angeles on 26 October 2019, with her mother dressed as Georgie, the boy Pennywise kills at the start of the film.

Question 12 路 Pick answer

Which couple is dressed as Tim Burton characters? (Picture question: the image is in the template.)

  1. Taylor Swift & Joe Alwyn
  2. Selena Gomez & Taylor Lautner
  3. Vanessa Hudgens & Austin Butler
  4. Zendaya & Tom Holland
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Answer:

Vanessa Hudgens & Austin Butler

Fun fact: The characters are Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, which Tim Burton produced and Henry Selick directed.

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