99 Halloween quiz questions and answers with rounds on TV, movies, monsters and more

There's just a one day to go until Halloween on Friday 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 created eight Halloween themed quiz rounds - traditions, monsters, music, movies, TV, literature, celebrity costumes and kids - so you can pick and choose your favourite categories, or you can do all eight and really test your knowledge.

So if you're prepping to be this year's Halloween quiz master, here are all the questions and answers you need.

1. What is a carved pumpkin traditionally known as? [Answer: Jack o’Lantern]
2. What is the name of the game where people search for fruit using their mouths? [Answer: Bobbing for apples]
3. What date of the year does All Saints or All Hallows Day take place? [Answer: 1 November]
4. What animal commonly associated with Halloween is thought to bring bad luck? [Answer: A black cat]
5. What does Mexico’s ‘Dia de Los Muertos’ mean in English? [Answer: Day of the Dead]
6. What household item do people commonly use to create a Mummy Halloween costume? [Answer: Toilet paper]
7. If you were to cut eye shaped holes out of a white bed sheet and put it on, what would you be going as for Halloween? [Answer: A ghost]
8. What is the phobia of Halloween called? [Answer: Samhainophobia]
9. What is your star sign if you’re born on Halloween? [Answer: Scorpio]
10. When did Starbucks first release the pumpkin spice latte? [Answer: 2003]

1. The ‘Monster Mash’ is a song by who? [Answer: Bobby ‘Boris Pickett and The Crypt Kickers]
2. How long is the music video for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’? [Answer: 13 minutes]
3. Who released the song ‘I Put a Spell on You’? [Answer: The Animals]
4. In which year did Rihanna release the song ‘Disturbia’? [Answer: 2008]
5. What film features the song ‘This is Halloween? [Answer: The Nightmare Before Christmas]
6. Complete the lyric ‘If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood _______’?: [Answer: ‘Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters’]
7. Which AC/DC song begins with a bell tolling? [Answer: ‘Hells Bells’]
8. Who sang ‘Bat Out of Hell?’ [Answer: Meat Loaf]
9. Which family are being referred to in the song where they are called ‘creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky’? [Answer: The Addams Family]
10. Which artist features on Rockwell’s song ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’? [Answer: Michael Jackson]

1. 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]
2. Who plays Wednesday Addams in the 1991 movie The Addams Family? [Answer: Christina Ricci]
3. What is the name of the killer in the Scream movie series? [Answer: Ghostface]
4. In The Shining, where is the Overlook Hotel based? [Answer: The Rocky Mountains in Colorado]
5. Which 1999 movie features a group of students who disappear while making a documentary? [Answer: The Blair Witch Project]
6. What are the names of the three Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus? [Answer: Winnie, Sarah and Mary]
7. How many times do you need to say Beetlejuice’s name in order to summon him? [Answer: Three]
8. What is the chilling line the boy says in the movie Sixth Sense? [Answer: “I see dead people”]
9. In the movie IT, what is Pennywise? [Answer: A clown]
10. Freddy Krueger features in which movie franchise? [Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street]
11. Who provides the voice for Coraline in the movie Coraline? [Answer: Dakota Fanning]
12. Who is the young girl who becomes possessed in The Exorcist? [Answer: Regan MacNeil]
13. Where is the 2019 movie Midsommar starring Florence Pugh set? [Answer: Rural Sweden]
14. Camp Crystal Lake features in which horror movie? [Answer: Friday 13th]
15. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prinze Jr all starred in what movie? [Answer: I Know What You Did Last Summer]

1. What is the name of the school Wednesday and Pugsley attend in Netflix’s Wednesday? [Answer: Nevermore Academy]
2. Who is abducted and taken to the Upside Down in the pilot episode of Stranger Things? [Answer: Will Byers]
3. What is the name of the gang’s van in Scooby-Doo? [Answer: The Mystery Machine]
4. What does Monica dress up as for Halloween in the Friends Halloween episode? [Answer: Cat Woman]
5. Where is the series Pretty Little Liars set? [Answer: The fictional town of Rosewood]
6. The Doctor Who episode ‘Blink’ is considered a Halloween episode, what are the terrifying monsters in it? [Answer: The Weeping Angels]
7. What are the six different types of infected in The Last of Us? [Answer: Runners, Stalkers, Clickers, Bloaters, Shamblers and The Rat King]
8. Who is the subject of Netflix’s most recent dramatised serial killer series Monster? [Answer: Ed Gein]
9. How many series of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Stories have there been? [Answer: 12]
10. In the TV series Bates Motel, who plays a young Norman Bates? [Answer: Freddie Highmore]
11. What is Buffy’s surname in Buffy The Vampire Slayer? [Answer: Summers]
12. Who played Sabrina in the 1996 TV series Sabrina The Teenage Witch? [Answer: Melissa Joan Hart]
13. Which American football player starred in the 2024 series Grotesquerie? [Answer: Travis Kelce]
14. Who is the lead in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, whom plays with Chanel Oberlin? [Answer: Emma Roberts]
15. Black Mirror was created by which British screenwriter? [Answer: Charlie Brooker]

1. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein? [Mary Shelley]
2. Which Shakespeare play features witches who say “double, double toil and trouble”? [Answer: Macbeth]
3. What is the creature that appears in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? [Answer: The Headless Horseman]
4. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem begins ‘Once upon a midnight dreary’? [Answer: The Raven]
5. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel what is the alter ego of Dr Jekyll called? [Answer: Mr Hyde]
6. Who wrote the 1867 novel Dracula? [Answer: Bram Stoker]
7. Which was Stephen King’s first novel to be published that was later turned into a movie? [Answer: Carrie]
8. Stephen King has occasionally published under a pseudonym, what is it? [Answer: Richard Bachman]
9. The Haunting of Hill House isn’t just a Netflix series, who wrote the original novel? [Answer: Shirley Jackson]
10. What is Arthur Miller’s The Crucible about? [Answer: The Salem witch trials]

1. Can you guess the famous model dressed as Fiona from Shrek?

[Answer: Heidi Klum]

2. Can you guess the former celebrity couple dressed as Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz?

[Answer: The Weeknd and Bella Hadid]

3. Can you guess the single dressed as Post Malone?

[Answer: Rita Ora]

4. Can you guess the actress dressed as Dionne from Clueless?

[Answer: Lupita Nyong'o]

5. Can you guess which celebrity Traitor dressed up as Jessica Rabbit?

[Answer: Paloma Faith]

6. Who is playing Cruella in this Halloween costume?

[Answer: Craig Revel Horwood]

7. Which presenter is wearing a spooky mermaid look for Halloween?

[Answer: Maya Jama]

1. In Harry Potter, what gross flavour of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans did Dumbledore say he had once? [Answer: Earwax]
2. One of America's favourite Halloween sweets is Candy Corn, what was it originally called? [Answer: Chicken Feed]
3. What is the main ingredient used to make the toffee for toffee apples? [Answer: Sugar]
4. What sweet treat is made by spinning melted sugar at high speed? [Answer: Candy floss]
   
5. What is the scary sounding cocktail Bloody Mary made of? [Answer: Tomato juice, vodka, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce]
6. How heavy was the world's heaviest pumpkin? [Answer: 1,278kg]
7. Which Roman goddess is bobbing apples played in as tribute? [Answer: Pomona]

1. What are the three best ways to get rid of a vampire? [Answer: Garlic, stabbing their heart at the stake or exposing them to sunlight]
2. What do zombies eat? [Answer: Brains]
3. What country did Mummies originate from? [Answer: Egypt]
4. At what time of the month do humans cursed as werewolves turn into creatures? [Answer: During the full moon]
5. What does the Grim Reaper usually carry with him? [Answer: A scythe]
6. What are a group of witches called? [Answer: A coven]
7. In what sort of area do trolls live in? [Answer: In isolated areas such as caves, mountain sides]
8. The word ‘poltergeist’ meaning ghoul or spirit, comes from which country? [Answer: Germany]
9. Where in the world do we traditionally think vampires come from? [Answer: Transylvania]
10. Where in the world does the creature a ‘bunyip’ come from? [Answer: Australia]

1. What is the phrase the baddie always uses when they’re caught by Scooby-Doo and the gang? [Answer:I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids]
2. In the book Meg and Mog, what are Meg and Mog? [Answer: A witch and a cat]
3. What colours are usually associated with Halloween? [Answer: Orange and black]
4. What creature is known for drinking blood? [Answer: Vampires]
5. Which creature is known for frequently saying “boo”? [Answer: Ghosts]
6. Who is ET’s friend in the movie ET? [Answer: Elliot]
7. What do witches fly on? [Answer: A broomstick]
8. What are the monsters’ jobs in Monsters Inc [Answer: Scaring children to collect their screams]
9. In The Nightmare Before Christmas who is the Pumpkin King? [Answer: Jack Skellington]
10. In Hocus Pocus, what happens when the witches drink the blood of children? [Answer: They stay young forever]
11. Who wrote the book The Witches? [Answer: Roald Dahl]
12. In Halloweentown who finds out they are a witch? [Answer: Marnie]
13. What do you carry when you go trick or treating? [Answer: A bucket or basket for collecting all your treats]
14. What creature flies around haunted houses? [Answer: Bats]
15. What vegetable do you carve at Halloween? [Answer: Pumpkins]

Lydia Venn

Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer

 Lydia Venn is Cosmopolitan UK’s Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer. She covers everything from TV and film, to the latest celebrity news. She also writes across our work/life section regularly creating quizzes, covering exciting new food releases and sharing the latest interior must-haves. In her role she’s interviewed everyone from Margot Robbie to Niall Horan, and her work has appeared on an episode of The Kardashians. After completing a degree in English at the University of Exeter, Lydia moved into fashion journalism, writing for the Daily Express, before working as Features Editor at The Tab, where she spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Talk Radio. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of Gilmore Girls and 00s teen movies, and in her free time can be found with a margarita in hand watching the Real Housewives on repeat. Find her on LinkedIn.