Halloween Jeopardy

Halloween Jeopardy

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History

Witches & Warlocks

Candy

Pop culture

Ghosts & Ghouls

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Friday the 13th

Ireland

Fruits and Nuts

Samhain

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

the 20th century (1920s–1950s)

Village Halloween Parade

Tim Burton

Michael Jackson Thriller

Goth Fashion

Stephen King - Carrie

Charles Addams

Beetlejuice

The Ghostbusters

the Mothman

Ed and Lorraine Warren

Stanley Hotel

The Cecil Hotel

Albus Dumbledore

McCarthyism

Harry Houdini

David Copperfield

Hocus Pocus

The wicked witch of the West

Ancient Egypt

Candy Corn

California

Frank C. Mars

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

This candy, consisting of chocolate cups filled with peanut butter, was introduced by the Hershey Company in 1928 and remains a favorite Halloween treat.

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After experiencing a nightmare while staying in Room 217 at this Estes Park, Colorado hotel, Stephen King was inspired to write his 1977 horror novel The Shining.

500

In 1883, this founder of the Mars candy company was born in Glenwood, Minnesota, where his mother taught him how to hand-dip chocolate.

500

In the 1800s, before candy became the go-to treat, people handed out these healthier goodies to trick-or-treaters on Halloween night

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Beginning in the 1970s, this magician became a household name for performing televised illusions like walking through the Great Wall of China and making the Statue of Liberty disappear.

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Home to famous brands like Ghirardelli, Jelly Belly, and Annabelle’s Candy Company, this U.S. state ranks first in candy production, earning it the title of the “sweetest state in the country.”

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Although Halloween has ancient roots, this century saw candy companies begin promoting it as a family-friendly, commercialized event.

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This husband-and-wife duo gained fame for investigating famous hauntings like the Amityville Horror and the Annabelle doll, inspiring The Conjuring film series.

400

Which ancient Celtic festival, celebrated to welcome the harvest and ward off spirits with bonfires and costumes, is considered the origin of modern-day Halloween?

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Known as the world’s greatest trickster and illusionist, this performer spent the 1920s exposing fraudulent psychics and mediums who claimed to contact the dead.

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Released in 1984, Ray Parker Jr.’s hit song from a supernatural comedy includes the lyric “If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? ________!”

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In which ancient civilization was the world’s first candy made, using honey, nuts, and fruits, and considered a luxury item for the wealthy?

100

Name the 13-time Grammy Award winner who set a record by winning 8 Grammys in a single night in 1984, and for which song won them Best Male Pop Vocal Performance?

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Known for saying “The ghost with the most,” this mischievous undead character was played by Michael Keaton in a 1988 Tim Burton film.

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Both the Salem witch trials of the 1690s and this 20th-century political movement are linked by themes of mass hysteria, fear-driven accusations, and the persecution of innocent people—this time for alleged communist ties.

200

Opened in 1924 in downtown Los Angeles, this hotel gained notoriety for its dark history of deaths and crimes, later inspiring a Netflix documentary and the FX series American Horror Story: Hotel.

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This cartoonist created the Addams Family in 1938 for The New Yorker, drawing inspiration from his love of the macabre, Victorian gothic imagery, and the dark humor he observed in the eccentric people of this U.S. city where he grew up.

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As a struggling teacher in Maine, this author threw away the first few pages of what would become his debut novel — until his wife, Tabitha, pulled them from the trash and encouraged him to finish it.

500

Emerging from the post-punk scene of the late 1970s and influenced by bands like Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees, this dark, romantic fashion trend rose to popularity in the 1980s and gained mainstream attention in the 1990s.

400

In The Wizard of Oz, this green-skinned villain delivers the famous line, “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” after confronting Dorothy about her sister’s death.

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This date is feared for combining unlucky beliefs about both the number 13 and the day Friday

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Which Harry Potter character memorably said, “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light"

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Known for his gothic visual style and collaborations with Johnny Depp, this director brought stop-motion to life in films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.

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This winged humanoid creature with glowing red eyes was first sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966, and is said to be connected to the tragic Silver Bridge collapse the following year.

300

What popular Halloween candy was originally called "Chicken Feed" when it was first made in the 1880s, due to its resemblance to actual chicken feed

300

What is the name of the annual parade in the Greenwich Village that began in 1974, features over 50,000 costumed participants and around 2 million spectators, and is billed as the world’s largest Halloween parade?

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In 1928, Walter Diemer created the first successful bubble gum, known for its signature pink color, and named it this.

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In this 1993 movie, the Sanderson Sisters are witches executed for practicing magic, a storyline inspired by the real 17th-century New England witch trials.

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In which country did the tradition of carving Jack-o’-Lanterns originate, originally using turnips instead of pumpkins?

200

Celebrated in Mexico around the same time as Halloween, this holiday honors the dead with altars, offerings, and costumes

500