Halloween Trivia: 100 Questions and Answers for All Ages

Here are 100 Halloween trivia questions with answers, sorted into seven rounds: easy, medium, hard, movies and TV, candy and pumpkins, history and folklore, and a round for young kids. Every answer was checked in October 2026 against the sources listed at the end, including Encyclopaedia Britannica, the USDA, Guinness World Records, the White House Historical Association and the National Retail Federation; the ones that change over time (the pumpkin record, pumpkin production, Halloween spending, the next Halloween full moon) reflect the latest figures. Each round prints as a numbered question list followed by a numbered answer key, so you can hand out the questions and keep the answers.

Below the questions you will find a ready-to-copy answer sheet, scoring rules, tiebreakers and a step-by-step plan for running a Halloween trivia night at home, in a classroom, at the office or on a video call. Halloween 2026 is on Saturday, October 31, and it also marks 100 years since Harry Houdini died on Halloween 1926, which makes question 18 of the medium round a timely one.

How This Halloween Trivia Is Organized

Round	Questions	Difficulty	Best for
1. Easy	20	Easy	Families, warm-up, mixed ages
2. Medium	20	Medium	Teens and adults
3. Hard	15	Hard	Trivia regulars, tiebreak material
4. Movies and TV	15	Easy to medium	Movie nights, teens
5. Candy and pumpkins	10	Easy to medium	Classrooms, office parties
6. History and folklore	10	Medium to hard	Adults, history fans
7. Kids	10	Very easy	Ages 4 to 8

Short on time? For a 30-minute game, play rounds 1 and 4 (35 questions). For a classroom, play rounds 7 and 5. For a pub-style night, play rounds 2, 3, 4 and 6 (60 questions) and keep round 1 in reserve.

Easy Halloween Trivia (20 Questions)

A warm-up round almost everyone can score on. Use it first, or use it alone for a mixed-age family table.

1. On what date is Halloween celebrated every year?
2. What do children say at the door when they ask for candy?
3. What is hollowed out and carved to make a jack-o’-lantern?
4. What are the two traditional colors of Halloween?
5. What is a group of witches called?
6. How many legs does a spider have?
7. Which creature is said to transform under a full moon?
8. What do vampires drink in legends and movies?
9. Which color of cat is linked to bad luck in Halloween superstition?
10. What does a witch traditionally ride through the sky?
11. In which present-day country is Transylvania?
12. What is a witch’s large cooking pot called?
13. Which classic monster is wrapped in bandages?
14. What Christian feast day falls on November 1, the day after Halloween?
15. Which striped, kernel-shaped candy is sold mostly in the fall?
16. Which pungent kitchen ingredient is said to keep vampires away?
17. Which flying mammal is one of the main symbols of Halloween?
18. What is the name of the “friendly ghost” from comics, cartoons and a 1995 movie?
19. In which party game do players try to grab floating apples with their teeth?
20. What day of the week is Halloween in 2026?

Answers: Easy Halloween Trivia (20 Questions)

1. October 31.
2. “Trick or treat!”
3. A pumpkin.
4. Orange and black.
5. A coven.
6. Eight.
7. A werewolf.
8. Blood.
9. Black.
10. A broomstick.
11. Romania.
12. A cauldron.
13. The mummy.
14. All Saints’ Day (All Hallows’ Day).
15. Candy corn.
16. Garlic.
17. The bat.
18. Casper.
19. Bobbing for apples.
20. Saturday.

Medium Halloween Trivia (20 Questions)

Literature, music and a little history. Most teams will get between 10 and 15.

1. Halloween traces its roots to which ancient Celtic festival?
2. The word “Halloween” is a shortened form of what phrase?
3. Before pumpkins, what root vegetable did people in Ireland and Scotland most often carve into lanterns?
4. Who wrote the 1897 novel Dracula?
5. Who wrote Frankenstein, first published in 1818?
6. In Frankenstein, what is the first name of the scientist who creates the monster?
7. Who wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?
8. What is the name of the schoolteacher chased by the Headless Horseman?
9. In what year did the Salem witch trials begin?
10. In which U.S. state is Salem?
11. Which Mexican holiday, observed on November 1 and 2, honors loved ones who have died?
12. According to modern werewolf lore, a bullet made of what metal can kill a werewolf?
13. The line “Double, double toil and trouble” comes from which Shakespeare play?
14. Who wrote the poem “The Raven”?
15. Which novelty song by Bobby “Boris” Pickett reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1962?
16. Which horror film actor performs the spoken-word section of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”?
17. What is the fear of spiders called?
18. Which famous magician and escape artist died on Halloween in 1926?
19. According to the USDA, which U.S. state produces the most pumpkins?
20. How many bones are in a typical adult human skeleton?

Answers: Medium Halloween Trivia (20 Questions)

1. Samhain.
2. All Hallows’ Eve (All Hallows’ Even).
3. Turnips.
4. Bram Stoker.
5. Mary Shelley.
6. Victor.
7. Washington Irving.
8. Ichabod Crane.
9. 1692.
10. Massachusetts.
11. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
12. Silver.
13. Macbeth.
14. Edgar Allan Poe.
15. “Monster Mash.”
16. Vincent Price.
17. Arachnophobia.
18. Harry Houdini.
19. Illinois.
20. 206.

Hard Halloween Trivia (15 Questions)

For the table that thinks it knows everything. A score of 8 or more is excellent.

1. What is the term for an intense fear of Halloween?
2. The earliest known printed uses of the Halloween phrase “trick or treat” (first as “tricks or treats” in 1917) all come from newspapers in which country?
3. Which first lady decorated the White House for Halloween for the first time, in 1958?
4. Which Minnesota city, which has held a Halloween celebration since 1920, calls itself the “Halloween Capital of the World”?
5. In Irish folklore, what is the name of the trickster whose wandering spirit gave the jack-o’-lantern its name?
6. Which eighth-century pope is credited with dedicating November 1 to honoring all saints?
7. A full moon fell on Halloween in 2020. In what year will that next happen?
8. Under what barnyard-themed name was candy corn originally sold?
9. The heaviest pumpkin on record, weighed in October 2026 and reported by Guinness World Records, weighed roughly how many pounds: 1,850, 2,350 or 2,850?
10. Which Illinois town bills itself as the “Pumpkin Capital of the World”?
11. Which organization’s Trick-or-Treat fundraising campaign began in the United States in 1950?
12. What is the Scottish and Irish term for going door to door in costume and performing a song, poem or joke for a treat?
13. What is the name of the Irish fruit bread traditionally baked with a ring or other charms inside at Halloween?
14. Who wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)?
15. How many species of vampire bat are there?

Answers: Hard Halloween Trivia (15 Questions)

1. Samhainophobia.
2. Canada (Ontario newspapers in 1917; the long-cited report from Blackie, Alberta, dates from 1927).
3. Mamie Eisenhower.
4. Anoka.
5. Stingy Jack.
6. Pope Gregory III.
7. 2039.
8. “Chicken Feed.”
9. About 2,850 (2,856.8 pounds, or 1,295.8 kg, grown by Ian Paton in the United Kingdom and weighed at Wargrave on October 3, 2026).
10. Morton.
11. UNICEF.
12. Guising.
13. Barmbrack (báirín breac).
14. Robert Louis Stevenson.
15. Three.

Halloween Movie and TV Trivia (15 Questions)

From Hocus Pocus to Halloween. For a pre-game, see our Halloween movies list.

1. In Hocus Pocus, what are the first names of the three Sanderson sisters?
2. In which real New England city is Hocus Pocus set?
3. Who is the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
4. Tim Burton produced The Nightmare Before Christmas, but who directed it?
5. What is the name of the masked killer in John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)?
6. The mask in the 1978 Halloween was an altered store-bought mask of which Star Trek character?
7. How many times must you say his name to summon Beetlejuice?
8. In Ghostbusters (1984), which giant advertising mascot stomps through New York City?
9. In It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, what does Charlie Brown get in his bag at every house?
10. What is the name of the hotel in The Shining?
11. By what name is the masked killer in the Scream movies known?
12. Which member of the Addams family is the title character of a Netflix series that premiered in 2022?
13. In which fictional Indiana town is Stranger Things set?
14. Which actor played the Count in Universal’s 1931 film Dracula?
15. Who is the killer in the original Friday the 13th (1980)?

Answers: Halloween Movie and TV Trivia (15 Questions)

1. Winifred, Mary and Sarah.
2. Salem, Massachusetts.
3. Jack Skellington.
4. Henry Selick.
5. Michael Myers.
6. Captain Kirk (a William Shatner mask, painted white).
7. Three.
8. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
9. A rock.
10. The Overlook Hotel.
11. Ghostface.
12. Wednesday.
13. Hawkins.
14. Bela Lugosi.
15. Pamela Voorhees, Jason’s mother.

Candy and Pumpkin Trivia (10 Questions)

A sweet round. Hand out a piece of Halloween candy for every right answer if you are playing with kids.

1. Which candy bar was named after a favorite horse of the Mars family?
2. What do the two M’s in M&M’s stand for?
3. Botanically speaking, is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
4. What are the three colors of traditional candy corn, from the wide end to the tip?
5. Which candy uses the slogan “Taste the Rainbow”?
6. What is the Spanish-derived name for hulled pumpkin seeds?
7. Which candy is sold with collectible dispensers topped with character heads?
8. Which coffee chain introduced the Pumpkin Spice Latte in 2003?
9. Which chocolate-covered wafer bar is snapped into “fingers”?
10. To which continent are pumpkins native?

Answers: Candy and Pumpkin Trivia (10 Questions)

1. Snickers.
2. Mars and Murrie.
3. A fruit.
4. Yellow, orange and white.
5. Skittles.
6. Pepitas.
7. PEZ.
8. Starbucks.
9. Kit Kat.
10. North America.

Halloween History and Folklore Trivia (10 Questions)

Where the traditions came from. The background is in our main Halloween guide.

1. Immigrants from which country are most credited with popularizing Halloween in the United States in the 1800s?
2. During Samhain, the Celts believed the boundary between which two worlds grew thin?
3. What Christian observance falls on November 2?
4. In medieval Britain, what small baked goods were given to “soulers” who went door to door offering prayers for the dead?
5. What is the common name for October 30, a night associated with pranks and known in Detroit as Devil’s Night?
6. In Irish folklore, which female spirit’s wail is said to foretell a death?
7. The zombie of folklore comes from the traditions of which Caribbean country?
8. Which ancient civilization preserved its dead as mummies and stored organs in canopic jars?
9. Which fifteenth-century Wallachian ruler is associated with the name Dracula?
10. Which bright orange flower traditionally decorates Day of the Dead altars?

Answers: Halloween History and Folklore Trivia (10 Questions)

1. Ireland.
2. The world of the living and the world of the dead.
3. All Souls’ Day.
4. Soul cakes.
5. Mischief Night.
6. The banshee.
7. Haiti.
8. Ancient Egypt.
9. Vlad the Impaler (Vlad III Dracula).
10. The marigold (cempasúchil).

Halloween Trivia for Kids (10 Questions)

Written for ages 4 to 8. Read the questions aloud and let the whole group shout the answer.

1. What sound does a ghost make?
2. What do you put inside a jack-o’-lantern to make it glow?
3. What do you wear on Halloween to look like someone or something else?
4. What is the name of the van that Scooby-Doo and his friends drive?
5. In Monsters, Inc., who is Sulley’s one-eyed green best friend?
6. Which night bird says “whoo”?
7. In Hotel Transylvania, what is the name of Dracula’s daughter?
8. What do spiders spin?
9. In Coco, what instrument does Miguel play?
10. What color are most pumpkins?

Answers: Halloween Trivia for Kids (10 Questions)

1. “Boo!”
2. A candle or a light.
3. A costume.
4. The Mystery Machine.
5. Mike Wazowski.
6. An owl.
7. Mavis.
8. Webs.
9. The guitar.
10. Orange.

Printable-Style Answer Sheet

To make a print version, copy a round’s question list into a document, set it to 12-point type and print one page per team; print the answer keys once for the host. Then give each team an answer sheet like the one below. Copy the table, repeat the numbered lines for as many questions as the round has, and print one sheet per team.

Team name: ____________________	Round: ______	Points
1. ________________________	11. ________________________
2. ________________________	12. ________________________
3. ________________________	13. ________________________
4. ________________________	14. ________________________
5. ________________________	15. ________________________
6. ________________________	16. ________________________
7. ________________________	17. ________________________
8. ________________________	18. ________________________
9. ________________________	19. ________________________
10. _______________________	20. ________________________	Round total: ____

And a scoreboard for the host:

Team	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Bonus	Total
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4

How to Run a Halloween Trivia Night

1. Choose the rounds. Four to six rounds of 10 to 20 questions fill 90 minutes to two hours. Start easy, put the hardest round in the middle and finish with movies, which every team enjoys.
2. Make teams of three to five. Mix ages and friend groups by drawing candy from a bag: everyone with the same wrapper is a team. Ask each team for a Halloween-themed name; a bonus point for the best one gets the room laughing early.
3. Pick a host and a scorekeeper. The host reads each question twice, clearly, and never rushes. The scorekeeper collects sheets and updates the scoreboard between rounds.
4. Set the rules out loud. No phones, no shouting answers, spelling does not count, the host’s answer key is final. Say this before question one, not after the first dispute.
5. Run each round the same way. Read the questions with about 20 seconds between them, repeat any on request at the end, give one minute to finalize, then collect sheets or have teams swap and mark each other’s.
6. Read the answers and the scores. Announce standings after every round. Close games keep people playing; if one team runs away with it, add a double-points final round.
7. Take a break halfway. Ten minutes for food and drinks. This is a good moment for a costume contest or a few Halloween jokes.
8. Break ties with a number question. Closest answer wins. Three you can use: “In what year was Dracula published?” (1897); “How many pounds did the record pumpkin of October 2026 weigh?” (2,857, rounded from 2,856.8); “How many billions of dollars does the National Retail Federation expect Americans to spend on Halloween in 2026?” (13.5).
9. Hand out prizes. A bag of full-size candy bars for the winners, a small pumpkin for best team name and a booby prize (a single piece of candy corn) for last place.

Scoring options

• Standard: one point per correct answer. Simple and fair.
• Weighted: one point for easy-round answers, two for medium, three for hard.
• Joker round: each team picks one round in advance to count double.
• Partial credit: for multi-part answers such as the three Sanderson sisters, give one point per name.

Variations

• Family table game: skip the sheets. Read a question; the first person to answer correctly gets a piece of candy. Youngest players get a two-second head start.
• Classroom: play rows against rows with rounds 7 and 5, and let students write two questions of their own for a bonus round.
• Office or video call: share the questions on screen, have teams answer in a private chat or a form, and keep it to 30 questions in 30 minutes. Our Halloween party ideas cover the rest of a work party.
• Trick-or-treat porch quiz: ask each trick-or-treater one kids’ question for a bonus candy. Tips for the night itself are in our trick-or-treating guide.
• Movie-night intermission: ask five questions from round 4 between films.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are some good Halloween trivia questions?

Good questions have one clear, checkable answer. Examples: Which Celtic festival is Halloween descended from? (Samhain.) Who wrote Dracula? (Bram Stoker.) Which state grows the most pumpkins? (Illinois.) What does Charlie Brown get when he goes trick-or-treating? (A rock.)

What are easy Halloween trivia questions for kids?

Ask about things children already know: What sound does a ghost make? What do spiders spin? What color are most pumpkins? What is the name of Scooby-Doo’s van? Read the questions aloud and let kids answer as a group so nobody is put on the spot.

What is a hard Halloween trivia question?

Try these: What is the fear of Halloween called? (Samhainophobia.) Which first lady first decorated the White House for Halloween? (Mamie Eisenhower, in 1958.) In what year will a full moon next fall on Halloween? (2039.)

How many questions do you need for a trivia night?

Plan 40 to 60 questions for a 90-minute to two-hour event: four to six rounds of 10 to 20 questions with a break in the middle. For a quick party game, 15 to 20 questions is plenty.

How do you play Halloween trivia at a party?

Split guests into teams of three to five, give each team a pencil and answer sheet, read each question twice and collect answers after every round. Announce scores between rounds, break ties with a closest-number question and award candy as prizes.

What was Halloween originally called?

The holiday grew out of the Celtic festival of Samhain. After November 1 became All Saints’ Day, or All Hallows’ Day, the evening before it was called All Hallows’ Eve, which was later shortened to Halloween.

Why do we carve pumpkins for Halloween?

The custom comes from Ireland and Scotland, where people carved turnips into lanterns, a practice tied to the folktale of Stingy Jack. Immigrants brought the tradition to North America and switched to the native pumpkin, which is larger and much easier to carve.

Carving your own this year? Patterns and step-by-step instructions are in our pumpkin carving ideas, and a caption for the winning team photo is waiting in Halloween captions.