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What film is this?

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Halloween

Starring Donald Pleasance and Jamie Lee Curtis

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What film is this?

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Halloween II

(1981)

Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance

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What film is this?

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Halloween III (1982)

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Halloween 4

(Donald Pleasance)

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What film is this?

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Halloween 5

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What film is this?

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Donald Pleasance and Paul Rudd

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What film is this?

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Halloween H2O

Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis

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What film is this?

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Goosebumps (2018)

Starring Jack Black

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What film is this character from?

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It and It II

Bill Skarsgard

Pennywise

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What film is this?

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The Joker 2019

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What film is this?

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Carrie (1976)

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Who starred as the first Carrie?

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Carrie Spacek

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In which country did Halloween originate?

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Ireland

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What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?

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Renfield

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Which phobia means you have an intense fear of Halloween?

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Samhainophobia

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Every Halloween, Charlie Brown helps his friend Linus wait for what character to appear?

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The Great Pumpkin

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According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what will you see?

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Your future husband or wife

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Which country celebrates the Day of the Dead starting at midnight on Oct. 31?

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Mexico

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Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

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Fruit

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How many people were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials?

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How many Oscars was Psycho nominated for?

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Four

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What do Halloween colors, black and orange, signify?

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Orange stands for harvest and black stands for death

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In the franchise, what is Michael Myers’ middle name?

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Audry. We learn this when he is being tried for his sister’s murder.

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What are other names of Halloween?

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Samhain, All Hallows Eve, The Feast of the Dead

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What word begins with letter C, looks like a pot and is normally used by witches to brew their potions and cast evil spells?
Cauldron
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What is the most popular candy bought within the United States, including during the Halloween holidays?
M&M's
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How many colors of M&Ms are there?
There are 25 different colors of M&M’s.
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What is the name of the Irish bread often eaten at Halloween which is yeasted with added sultanas and raisins?
Barmbrack
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Guy Fawkes was at the centre of which plot to assassinate King James I of England in 1605?
Gunpowder Plot
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Who sang the 1962 song 'Monster Mash'?
Bobby Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
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Who are Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stantz, and Dr. Egon Spengler better known as?
Ghostbusters
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What is the name of the British private detective television series, which when shown in the United States was called 'My Partner the Ghost'?
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
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Thing. T. Thing was a character from The Addams Family TV series. What was the only part of the character ever seen?
The hand
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What is the name for a ghost responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved?
Poltergeist
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Which TV show revolves around the Harmons, a family of three, who move from Boston to Los Angeles but find that the house they've moved into is haunted.
American Horror Story
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Freddie Highmore stars in which prequel to Psycho which shows how his complicated relationship with his mother turned him into a serial killer?
Bates Motel
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Which post-apocalyptic series, based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series of the same name, and has set the standard for the zombie horror genre? Andrew Lincoln played the leading character up to series nine.
The Walking Dead
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Which science fiction horror series from Netflix is set in the fictional town of Hawkins?
Stranger Things
39
In the 1983 film Cujo, who or what was Cujo?
A St. Bernard dog
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Which film directed by Wes Craven and starring Neve Campbell, and Courtney Cox is about a teenage girl who is terrorised by a killer a year after the murder of her mother. The killer targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
Scream
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(ANAGRAM) anthem rig
nightmare
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(ANAGRAM) glitter pose
poltergeist
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(ANAGRAM) a piano trip
apparition
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Which American magician and stuntman died of peritonitis on the halloween of 1926?
Harry Houdini
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On halloween of 1984 – who was assassinated by two of her Sikh security guards?
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
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Which film of 2005 starring Ryan Renolds and Melissa George is set in a house in Long Island which itself was the site of a mass murder a year earlier?
The Amityville Horror
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The worlds largest halloween party takes place in which city of the British Isles? a) Birmingham b) Edinburgh c) Derry (Londonderry)
c) Derry (Londonderry)
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What sort of chair were witches made to sit in as a way of testing their innocence?
A ducking or ducking stool.
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The most famous witch trials in US history are known as what?
The Salem Witch Trials.
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what is the name of a famous murder who lived in herefordshire (yikes)
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
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What was Dracula's real name?
Vlad the Impaler
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What film is this?
The Wolfman, starring Benecio del Toro, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving
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Out of what vegetable were jack o'lanterns originally made?
Turnips
54
Where do pumpkins come from originally?
Central America
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Which actor played Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Tim Curry
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What is the significance of seeing a spider on Halloween?
It is thought to be the spirit of a loved one watching over the person who finds the spider.
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What film is this character from?
The Nightmare before Christmas Jack Skellington
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Pumpkins can be orange, white, green or what?
Blue
59
What does hallow mean?
Saint or holy person
60
What film in is this?
Saw Jigsaw
61
What film is this?
Scream Ghostface. Starred Courtney Cox
62
What film is this?
The Omen Damien Thorne (character name)
63
What film is this?
The Thing Staring Kurt Russell What form did the Thing first take: a sled dog/ husky.
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What film is this?
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface
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What movie is this?
Cloverfield The Cloverfield monster
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What film is this?
Pinhead
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What movie is this?
Friday the 13th Character Jason Voorhees Mother is Pamela Voorhees
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Who is this?
Heidi Klum

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