90 Halloween quiz questions and answers on TV, film, literature, music, history and celebs

Halloween is fast approaching and we’ve begun conjuring up plans to dress up, carve spooky pumpkins, concoct stylish table decorations for fiendish feasts at home and devise devilish quizzes to play with friends and family.

Halloween this year falls on Friday 31 October and we have the perfect Halloween quiz to get you in the mood. Whether you’re looking for something to get the party started at home, planning a work social event or enjoying a virtual gathering with friends from afar, you’ll find everything you need right here.

Our ready-made, Halloween-themed quiz has six rounds covering the categories of TV, film, literature, music, history and celebrity. All the answers are included in brackets to give you everything you need to host a fabulous quiz night.

Looking for a quiz to keep younger guests entertained? You’ll find our 20-question Halloween quiz for kids and teens at the end.

Ready to be quiz master this year? Get started with our bumper Halloween quiz below!

Round 1 – Halloween TV quiz

1. Which science fiction horror series from Netflix is set in the fictional town of Hawkins? [Answer: Stranger Things]
2. In What We Do In The Shadows, what specific type of vampire is the character Colin Robinson? [Answer: An energy vampire]
3. Who plays the title character in mystery crime drama Jonathan Creek, which first aired in 1997? [Answer: Alan Davies]
4. In the Friends episode ‘The One with the Halloween Party’, the characters dress in memorable – but not particularly spooky – costumes. What did Phoebe dress as? [Answer: Supergirl]
5. In Tim Burton’s Wednesday reimagining for Netflix, what’s the name of the supernatural creature Wednesday Addams’ love interest, Tyler transforms into? [Answer: a hyde]
6. What iconic phrase do Scooby Doo monsters and villains usually say when they’re captured by the gang? [Answer: ‘I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids’]
7. How many of the six types of infected ‘zombies’ can you name from The Last of Us? [Answer: Runners, Stalkers, Clickers, Bloaters, Shamblers and The Rat King]
8. Which sister from the famous Kardashian-Jenner family starred in American Horror Story: Delicate? [Answer: Kim Kardashian]
9. Which American sports star and fiancée of a famous singer had a role in Grotesquerie? [Answer: Travis Kelce]
10. Bates Motel starring Freddie Highmore is the prequel to which classic horror film? [Answer: Psycho]
11. In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, what is the name of Buffy’s vampire love interest played by James Marsters? [Answer: Spike]
    
12. What is the surname of Sabrina the teenage witch? [Answer: Spellman]

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Round 2 – Halloween film quiz

1. In the 2024 body horror film The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, what is the name of main character Elisabeth Sparkle's younger self? [Answer: Sue]
2. In Hocus Pocus, what are the names of the three Sanderson sisters and the actresses who play them? [Answer: Bette Midler as Winifred, Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah, and Kathy Najimy as Mary]
3. Which film is the iconic line, ‘I see dead people’ from? [Answer: The Sixth Sense]
4. In which 1982 horror film did Carol Anne start talking to the television set? [Answer: Poltergeist]
5. Which 1980s Tim Burton movie starring Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara was revived with a sequel in 2024? [Answer: Beetlejuice]
6. In the film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, Anjelica Huston’s Grand High Witch plans to turn children into what? [Answer: Mice]
7. In 13 going on 30, Jenna Rink saves the office party by getting everyone to join her rendition of a famous dance routine to which spooky song? [Answer: Thriller by Michael Jackson]
8. Which actress reprised her iconic role – made famous over two decades ago – for Halloween Kills? [Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis]
9. Name the eerie hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining [Answer: The Overlook Hotel]
10. Horror film The Quiet Place co-stars which real-life Hollywood couple? [Answer: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski]
11. What’s the name of the terrifying clown in Stephen King’s It, which was remade starring Bill Skarsgård in the title role? [Answer: Pennywise]
12. In Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, can you name the creature that breaks into Hogwarts on Halloween night? [Answer: Mountain troll]

1. The Shining saw Jack Nicholson star in one of his most iconic roles, but who wrote the novel (of the same name) that the film was based on? [Answer: Stephen King]
2. What’s the name of the youngest Baudelaire child in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events? [Answer: Sunny]
3. In the 1972 children’s book of the same name, who are Meg and Mog? [Answer: A witch and a cat]
4. Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s Halloween classic Funnybones tells the story of a big skeleton, a little skeleton and what other type of skeleton? [Answer: A dog skeleton]
5. Who wrote the play The Crucible, set during the Salem witch trials? [Answer: Arthur Miller]
6. Which spell did Professor Flitwick first teach Harry, Ron and Hermione on Halloween in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? [Answer: Wingardium Leviosa]
7. The Goosebumps series of books has spooked readers since its release back in 1992 – name the author who created them? [Answer: R.L. Stine]
8. How many witches appear in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? [Answer: Three]
9. What is the name of the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia? [Answer: Jadis]
10. Which Agatha Christie novel is Kenneth Branagh’s 2023 Poirot film, A Haunting In Venice, based on? [Answer: Hallowe'en Party]
11. The horror/comedy novel Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder was adapted into a new film starring which actress in the lead role? [Answer: Amy Adams]
12. Who wrote Frankenstein in 1818? [Answer: Mary Shelley]

Round 4 – Halloween picture quiz

1. Which classic Hitchcock film starring Tippi Hedren is this picture a scene from? [Answer: The Birds]

2. Can you guess the famous model transformed for one of her legendary Halloween parties? [Answer: Heidi Klum]

3. What is the name attributed to the masked killer in the Scream movie franchise? [Answer: Ghostface]

4. Can you name the British broadcaster famed for his many interview documentary series? [Answer: Louis Theroux]

5. What famous line does Jack Nicholson say as he puts his head through an axed door in this scene from The Shining? [Answer: ‘Here's Johnny!’]

6. Can you guess the celebrity waltzing head-first into Halloween in this outrageous Cruella outfit? [Answer: Craig Revel Horwood]

7. Are you able to name this robot ‘child’ who went viral for her sinister dancing scene? Hint: her name is also the title of the film. [Answer: M3gan]

8. Name the radio duo dressed as Wednesday and Morticia Addams [Answer: Ashley Roberts and Amanda Holden]

9. Can you name this iconic killer from the Halloween movies? [Answer: Michael Myers]

10. Who is the glamorous pop star masquerading as singer Post Malone? [Answer: Rita Ora]

Round 5 – Halloween music quiz

1. Which band sang the song Creep? [Answer: Radiohead]
2. Who is the lead singer of The Zombies? [Answer: Colin Blunstone]
3. What year was Rockwell’s paranoid classic Somebody’s Watching Me released in the UK? [Answer: 1984]
4. Which pop star kissed an alien on stage during her 2024 MTV VMA Awards performance? [Answer: Sabrina Carpenter]
5. Finish this lyric from the Ghostbusters theme tune, ‘An invisible man, ________ __ ____ __’ [Answer: ‘Sleeping in your bed’]
6. The famous song Time Warp is from which cult comedy horror film? [Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show]
7. Which Gen Z pop star sings Bury A Friend? [Answer: Billie Eilish]
8. Name the legendary singer who played the Goblin King in Labyrinth [Answer: David Bowie]
9. In the song Life, which artist sings that they'd ‘rather have a piece of toast’ than see a ghost, adding, ‘it’s a sight that I fear the most’? [Answer: Des’ree]
10. Pop star Katy Perry has a song named after which friendly alien? [Answer: E.T.]
11. According to Warren Zevon’s 70s hit, in which city can werewolves be found reading Chinese menus and drinking piña coladas? [Answer: London, from the song Werewolves Of London, by Warren Zevon]
12. Which group famously sang about zombies? [Answer: The Cranberries]
    

Round 6 – Halloween history quiz

1. Which vegetable was originally carved to create a jack-o’-lantern before the pumpkin became the Halloween vegetable of choice? [Answer: Turnip]
2. On which historical figure was Bram Stoker’s Dracula said to have been based? [Answer: Vlad the Impaler]
3. What was the original reason people wore costumes and lit bonfires, during the Celtic festival that eventually led to Halloween? [Answer: To ward off ghosts]
4. What symbol has traditionally been depicted as capable of warding off vampires? [Answer: a crucifix/cross]
5. Which famous magician died on Halloween? [Answer: Harry Houdini]
6. What is the day after Halloween called? [Answer: All Saints’ Day]
7. What is a group of witches called? [Answer: A coven]
   
8. When will the next Halloween full moon occur? [Answer: Halloween 2039]
   
9. In which US state did the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s take place? [Answer: Massachusetts]
   
10. According to legend, what can harm a vampire? [Answers: Wooden stakes/silver bullets/sunlight]
11. Victorians used to put what inside their coffins, just in case? [Answer: Bells – if they happened to be buried alive]
12. What fruit do you traditionally bob for on Halloween? [Answer: Apples]

Round 7 – The Halloween round for kids and teens

1. In Ghostbusters, what’s the name of the infamous ghost with a ginormous appetite? [Answer: Slimer]
2. What totally fetch Halloween costume did Lindsay Lohan’s character Cady wear in Mean Girls? [Answer: The Bride of Frankenstein]
3. In Harry Potter, what’s the name of Hufflepuff house’s patron ghost? [Answer: Fat Friar]
4. In KPop Demon Hunters, what is the name of the rival boy band who are secretly demons in disguise? [Answer: The Saja Boys]
5. Name the singer and actress who plays Mavis in Hotel Transylvania [Answer: Selena Gomez]
   
6. Helen Nicoll gave us a series of children’s books about a well-meaning witch, her striped cat and their friend Owl. What were the books called? [Answer: Meg and Mog]
7. What’s the name of the fourth and final novel in The Twilight Saga? [Answer: Breaking Dawn]
8. What animals are traditionally associated with witches? [Answer: Black cats]
9. In Steven Spielberg’s otherworldly classic E.T., name the creature Elliott sets free in his Science class, angering his teacher and causing quite the commotion? [Answer: Frogs]
10. In Roald Dahl’s dark fantasy world of The Witches, what’s the name of the little boy who’s lured into the convention hall by the Grand High Witch with the promise of free chocolate? [Answer: the witches]
11. What type of creature is Shrek? [Answer: An ogre]
12. What can Dracula transform himself into? [Answer: A bat]
    
13. What’s the name of the green, one-eyed monster from Monsters Inc? [Answer: Mike Wazowski]
    
14. Also in Monsters Inc, what’s the name of the little girl who’s not afraid of monsters? [Answer: Boo]
    
15. What do the children in E.T. dress him up as to escape the house at Halloween? [Answer: A ghost]
    
16. The Pixar film Coco is based on which Mexican holiday? [Answer: Day of the Dead]
    
17. Which TV series features the beloved characters Fred, Velma and Daphne? [Answer: Scooby-Doo]
    
18. The loveable bull terrier dog Sparky lives with Victor Frankenstein in which Tim Burton film? [Answer: Frankenweenie]
19. What’s the name of Billy’s very cute and beleaguered mogwai in Gremlins? [Answer: Gizmo]
    
20. Who runs the hotel in the monster comedy Transylvania Hotel? [Answer: Count Dracula]