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Halloween Quiz
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Set 1 · Halloween
- EasyOn which date is Halloween celebrated each year?
Answer: 31 October
- EasyWhat kind of doll is Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Rag doll
- EasyIn the UK, which season includes Halloween?
Answer: Autumn
- EasyWhat is a pumpkin carved into a face and lit from inside commonly called?
Answer: Jack-o'-lantern
- EasyWhich fruit is used in the traditional Halloween game of bobbing?
Answer: Apples
- MediumIn the Western Christian calendar, All Saints' Day falls on which date?
Answer: 1 November
- MediumIn the Western Christian calendar, All Souls' Day falls on which date?
Answer: 2 November
- MediumWhich longer name is shortened to Halloween?
Answer: All Hallows' Eve
- MediumIn the historical custom of souling, what did visitors offer in return for food or money?
Answer: Prayers for the dead
- MediumThe custom called guising is especially associated with which part of Britain?
Answer: Scotland
- HardWhich Celtic festival is commonly discussed as one influence on Halloween traditions?
Answer: Samhain
- HardWhich legendary figure is linked with the name jack-o'-lantern?
Answer: Stingy Jack
- HardWhat was candy corn originally marketed as, according to the Library of Congress?
Answer: Chicken Feed
- HardBelsnickeling, one proposed influence on American trick-or-treating, was associated with which holiday?
Answer: Christmas
- HardImmigrants from which country helped bring carved vegetable lantern traditions to America?
Answer: Ireland
- Very hardWhat is the name of the ship that reaches Whitby in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Answer: Demeter
- Very hardWhich English estate does Dracula buy near Purfleet in the novel?
Answer: Carfax
- Very hardWhat is Mina's surname before she marries Jonathan Harker in Dracula?
Answer: Murray
- Very hardWhich recording device does Dr Seward use to keep his diary in Dracula?
Answer: Phonograph
- Very hardWhat is the name of Ichabod Crane's borrowed horse in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Answer: Gunpowder
Set 2 · Halloween
- EasyWhich phrase do children commonly say when asking for Halloween sweets?
Answer: Trick or treat
- EasyWhat do people commonly dress in for a Halloween party?
Answer: Costumes
- EasyWhat does the witch ride in Room on the Broom?
Answer: A broomstick
- EasyWhich animal accompanies the witch on the broom in the familiar Room on the Broom illustration?
Answer: A cat
- EasyBats belong to which animal group?
Answer: Mammals
- MediumWhich root vegetable was traditionally carved into a Halloween lantern before pumpkins became widespread?
Answer: Turnip
- MediumPumpkins are a type of which crop?
Answer: Winter squash
- MediumWhich location is best suited to growing pumpkins?
Answer: A warm sunny site
- MediumWhat can bats do that flying squirrels cannot truly do?
Answer: Powered flight
- MediumWhat do all native UK bat species eat?
Answer: Insects
- HardDía de Muertos is particularly associated with which country, and is distinct from Halloween?
Answer: Mexico
- HardWhich botanical group includes pumpkins, squashes and courgettes?
Answer: Cucurbits
- HardWhich weather event should harvested pumpkins be protected from if they are to store well?
Answer: Frost
- HardWhat does curing a pumpkin before storage help to harden?
Answer: Its skin
- HardWhat is the term for a place where bats rest or shelter?
Answer: Roost
- Very hardWhat is Katrina's surname in Irving's original Sleepy Hollow story?
Answer: Van Tassel
- Very hardBy what nickname is Ichabod's rival Abraham Van Brunt known?
Answer: Brom Bones
- Very hardWhat broken object is found near Ichabod's hat after his disappearance in the original Sleepy Hollow story?
Answer: A pumpkin
- Very hardThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow is presented as having been found among whose papers?
Answer: Diedrich Knickerbocker's
- Very hardWhich explorer's letters frame the opening of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Answer: Robert Walton
Set 3 · Halloween
- EasyHow many walking legs does a spider normally have?
Answer: Eight
- EasyWhat natural material does a spider use to make a web?
Answer: Silk
- EasyWhich familiar British owl has a heart-shaped face?
Answer: Barn owl
- EasyWhich of these is a typical food of a barn owl?
Answer: Voles
- EasyWho is the Pumpkin King in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Jack Skellington
- MediumWhat is the name for finding objects using returning sound echoes?
Answer: Echolocation
- MediumWhich statement about bat eyesight is correct?
Answer: Bats are not blind
- MediumSpiders belong to which group rather than the insects?
Answer: Arachnids
- MediumHow many main body sections does a spider have?
Answer: Two
- MediumWhat is an owl pellet mainly made from?
Answer: Indigestible remains of its food
- HardA bat's wings are modified versions of which body parts?
Answer: Hands
- HardWhat is a summer gathering place for female bats and their young called?
Answer: Maternity roost
- HardWhat is the scientific name of the barn owl featured in the Woodland Trust's British wildlife guide?
Answer: Tyto alba
- HardBarn owls are often described as crepuscular. When are they especially likely to hunt?
Answer: Dusk and dawn
- HardWhat are a spider's silk-spinning structures called?
Answer: Spinnerets
- Very hardAt which university town does Victor Frankenstein study in the novel?
Answer: Ingolstadt
- Very hardWhich John Milton work does the creature read in Frankenstein?
Answer: Paradise Lost
- Very hardWhat is the name of Victor Frankenstein's childhood friend who visits him at university?
Answer: Henry Clerval
- Very hardWhat is the surname of the cottage family observed by the creature in Frankenstein?
Answer: De Lacey
- Very hardWho wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Set 4 · Halloween
- EasyIn Ghostbusters, what does the team's new business remove from houses?
Answer: Ghosts
- EasyHow many witches are brought back in the original Hocus Pocus film?
Answer: Three
- EasyCount Dracula is best known as which type of fictional creature?
Answer: Vampire
- EasyWho wrote the novel Frankenstein?
Answer: Mary Shelley
- EasyWhat colour are traditional Halloween carving pumpkins usually shown as?
Answer: Orange
- MediumWho wrote the novel Dracula?
Answer: Bram Stoker
- MediumIn Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein is the surname of which character?
Answer: The creature's creator
- MediumWhich region is home to Count Dracula's castle in Bram Stoker's novel?
Answer: Transylvania
- MediumWho wrote the spooky poem The Raven?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
- MediumHow many witches first greet Macbeth and Banquo in Shakespeare's Macbeth?
Answer: Three
- HardSpider silk is a natural fibre made mainly from which type of substance?
Answer: Protein
- HardIn which year was Bram Stoker's Dracula first published?
Answer: 1897
- HardIn which year was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein first published?
Answer: 1818
- HardWhat is the alternative title of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Answer: The Modern Prometheus
- HardWho wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Answer: Washington Irving
- Very hardWhat is Dr Jekyll's first name in Stevenson's novella?
Answer: Henry
- Very hardWhat is Mr Hyde's first name in Stevenson's novella?
Answer: Edward
- Very hardWhat is Gabriel John Utterson's profession in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Answer: Lawyer
- Very hardWhat is Poole's role in Dr Jekyll's household in the original novella?
Answer: Butler
- Very hardWhat is Dr Lanyon's first name in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Answer: Hastie
Set 5 · Halloween
- EasyWhat is removed from inside a pumpkin when preparing a traditional jack-o'-lantern?
Answer: Seeds
- EasyWhich creature threatens the witch in Room on the Broom?
Answer: Dragon
- EasyWhich town is the witches' home in the original Hocus Pocus film?
Answer: Salem
- EasyWhich other holiday does Jack try to bring to his world in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Christmas
- EasyWhich actor plays Ray Stantz in the original Ghostbusters film?
Answer: Dan Aykroyd
- MediumIn which year was the original Hocus Pocus released?
Answer: 1993
- MediumWho directed the original Hocus Pocus?
Answer: Kenny Ortega
- MediumIn which year was the original Ghostbusters film released?
Answer: 1984
- MediumWho plays Peter Venkman in the original Ghostbusters?
Answer: Bill Murray
- MediumWho directed The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Henry Selick
- HardWhat is Ichabod Crane's principal occupation in Irving's original Sleepy Hollow story?
Answer: Schoolteacher
- HardIn which year was F. W. Murnau's original Nosferatu released?
Answer: 1922
- HardWhat is the vampire called in the 1922 film Nosferatu?
Answer: Count Orlok
- HardWho plays the vampire in the 1922 Nosferatu?
Answer: Max Schreck
- HardWho directed the original 1922 Nosferatu?
Answer: F. W. Murnau
- Very hardIn Poe's The Raven, the bird settles on a bust of whom?
Answer: Pallas
- Very hardIn which month is the scene in Poe's The Raven set?
Answer: December
- Very hardWhat is the name of the woman mourned by the narrator of The Raven?
Answer: Lenore
- Very hardWhat is the name of the sieve-like structure used by spiders that produce woolly cribellate silk?
Answer: Cribellum
- Very hardWhat is unusual about the placement of a barn owl's ear openings?
Answer: One is higher than the other
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