There’s just a few days to go until Halloween on Saturday 31st October and we are truly in the spooky spirit. And when it comes to planning the ultimate Halloween party, a quiz is definitely needed.
Whether you’re throwing a big party for your friends, family and all the neighbours, or having a more intimate and bewitching gathering with a few mates, a terrifyingly fun quiz is just the thing to get the party started.
We’ve curated the ultimate quiz to test your Halloween pop culture knowledge.
Halloween music questions
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The ‘Monster Mash’ is a song by who? [Answer: Bobby ‘Boris Pickett and The Crypt Kickers]
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How long is the music video for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’?[Answer: 13 minutes]
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Who released the song ‘I Put a Spell on You’?[Answer: The Animals]
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In which year did Rihanna release the song ‘Disturbia’? [Answer: 2008]
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What film features the song ‘This is Halloween? [Answer: The Nightmare Before Christmas]
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Complete the lyric ‘If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood _______’?: [Answer: ‘Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters’]
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Which AC/DC song begins with a bell tolling? [Answer: ‘Hells Bells’]
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Who sang ‘Bat Out of Hell?’ [Answer: Meat Loaf]
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Which family are being referred to in the song where they are called ‘creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky’? [Answer: The Addams Family]
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Which artist features on Rockwell’s song ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’? [Answer: Michael Jackson]
Halloween movies questions
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What is the curse put on the women of the Owens family in Practical Magic? [Answer: Any man who falls in love with them is doomed]
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Who plays Wednesday Addams in the 1991 movie The Addams Family? [Answer: Christina Ricci]
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What is the name of the killer in the Scream movie series?[Answer: Ghostface]
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In The Shining, where is the Overlook Hotel based? [Answer: The Rocky Mountains in Colorado]
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Which 1999 movie features a group of students who disappear while making a documentary? [Answer: The Blair Witch Project]
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What are the names of the three Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus? [Answer: Winnie, Sarah and Mary]
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How many times do you need to say Beetlejuice’s name in order to summon him? [Answer: Three]
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What is the chilling line the boy says in the movie Sixth Sense? [Answer: “I see dead people”]
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In the movie IT, what is Pennywise? [Answer: A clown]
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Freddy Krueger features in which movie franchise? [Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street]
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Who provides the voice for Coraline in the movie Coraline? [Answer: Dakota Fanning]
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Who is the young girl who becomes possessed in The Exorcist? [Answer: Regan MacNeil]
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Where is the 2019 movie Midsommar starring Florence Pugh set? [Answer: Rural Sweden]
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Camp Crystal Lake features in which horror movie? [Answer: Friday 13th]
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Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prinze Jr all starred in what movie? [Answer: I Know What You Did Last Summer]
Halloween TV questions
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What is the name of the school Wednesday and Pugsley attend in Netflix’s Wednesday? [Answer: Nevermore Academy]
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Who is abducted and taken to the Upside Down in the pilot episode of Stranger Things? [Answer: Will Byers]
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What is the name of the gang’s van in Scooby-Doo? [Answer: The Mystery Machine]
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What does Monica dress up as for Halloween in the Friends Halloween episode? [Answer: Cat Woman]
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Where is the series Pretty Little Liars set?[Answer: The fictional town of Rosewood]
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The Doctor Who episode ‘Blink’ is considered a Halloween episode, what are the terrifying monsters in it? [Answer: The Weeping Angels]
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What are the six different types of infected in The Last of Us? [Answer: Runners, Stalkers, Clickers, Bloaters, Shamblers and The Rat King]
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Who is the subject of Netflix’s most recent dramatised serial killer series Monster? [Answer:Ed Gein]
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How many series of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Stories have there been? [Answer: 12]
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In the TV series Bates Motel, who plays a young Norman Bates? [Answer: Freddie Highmore]
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What is Buffy’s surname in Buffy The Vampire Slayer? [Answer: Summers]
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Who played Sabrina in the 1996 TV series Sabrina The Teenage Witch? [Answer: Melissa Joan Hart]
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Which American football player starred in the 2024 series Grotesquerie? [Answer: Travis Kelce]
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Who is the lead in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, whom plays with Chanel Oberlin? [Answer: Emma Roberts]
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Black Mirror was created by which British screenwriter? [Answer: Charlie Brooker]
Halloween literature questions
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Which Shakespeare play features witches who say “double, double toil and trouble”? [Answer: Macbeth]
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What is the creature that appears in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? [Answer: The Headless Horseman]
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Which Edgar Allan Poe poem begins ‘Once upon a midnight dreary’? [Answer: The Raven]
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In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel what is the alter ego of Dr Jekyll called? [Answer: Mr Hyde]
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Who wrote the 1867 novel Dracula?[Answer: Bram Stoker]
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Which was Stephen King’s first novel to be published that was later turned into a movie? [Answer: Carrie]
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Stephen King has occasionally published under a pseudonym, what is it? [Answer: Richard Bachman]
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The Haunting of Hill House isn’t just a Netflix series, who wrote the original novel? [Answer: Shirley Jackson]
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What is Arthur Miller’s The Crucible about? [Answer: The Salem witch trials]
Halloween celebrity costume picture round
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Can you guess the famous model dressed as Fiona from Shrek?
2. Can you guess the former celebrity couple dressed as Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz?
3. Can you guess the single dressed as Post Malone?
4. Can you guess the actress dressed as Dionne from Clueless?
5. Can you guess which celebrity Traitor dressed up as Jessica Rabbit?
6. Who is playing Cruella in this Halloween costume?
7. Which presenter is wearing a spooky mermaid look for Halloween?
8. Which Love Islander is channelling his inner vampire?
