ROUND ONE: GENERAL HALLOWEENERY.
Q1) Who’s the most often seen ghost, in the Tower of London?
Q2) What vegetable, in Scotland, is a Jack O’Lantern traditionally made from?
Q3) In the tale of Hansel and Gretel, what’s the Witches’ house made of?
Q4) Back in Victorian London, which notorious criminal was nicknamed ‘Leather Apron’?
Q5) What name’s given to a group of witches, a Sabbat, or a Coven, or a Circle?
Q6) True or false; – October 31st is the feast of Saint Columba.
Q7) What is the full name for which the term Halloween is short for?
Q8) The traditional game of apple bobbing at Halloween originates from rites performed at the festival on the same day for an ancient apple Goddess. Is this Goddess, Celtic, Roman, or Egyptian?
Q9) What is the literal translation of the German term Poltergeist?
Q10) Under old English law, how was a convicted witch executed?
ROUND TWO: GRUESOME MOVIES.
Q11) The third entry in which horror franchise, had a record US opening, in 2011?
Q12) Halle Berry was the first black woman to win an Oscar: for which movie … ?
Q14) In which 1990 horror film would you find the character Annie Wilkes?
Q15) What monster movie was a huge hit, in February, 2008?
Q17) In which series of horror films would you find the Lament Configuration? (Bonus point for telling us what it is.)
Q18) In which year did Max Schreck play a bushy browed vampire in Friedrich Murnau’s Nosferatu? A18) 1922.
Q19) Which Italian director was responsible for the films Suspiria, Tenebrea and Inferno?
Q20) Which year saw the release of the original RKO version of King Kong? A20) 1933.
ROUND THREE: ONE FOR THE GOTHS …
Q21) Black Sabbath’s first album was released in the UK, on Friday the 13th: in which year of the ’70’s?
Q22) Which 80’s band released a song called Halloween?
Q23) Which Ricky Gervais movie shares its name with a song by the Specials?
Q24) Name this Song; “Oh Eh, Oh Ah Ah, Ting Tang, Walla, Walla Bing Bang”
Q25) Scary Monsters, Fashion, and Ashes to Ashes, are all hits from which 80’s David Bowie album?
Q27) Which former Crystal Maze presenter wrote and appeared in The Rocky Horror Show?
Q28) Which Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic has been covered by both Nina Simone, and Marilyn Manson?
Q29) Which New York based rap band had a debut album, called Niggamortis?
Q30) John Landis used the song Bad Moon Rising in his film An American Werewolf in London. Which band recorded it?
ROUND FOUR: I SEE DEAD PEOPLE … !
Q31) In which river did Virginia Wolf drown herself, in 1941, the Ouse, the Thames, or the Cam?
Q32) Which wild west hero‘s last words were ‘That picture’s crooked’?
Q33) Sufragette Emily Davidson threw herself under the king’s horse, during which year’s Derby; – 1913, 1915, or 1917? A33) 1913.
Q34) Influential director Ingmar Bergmar died in 2007: which European country was he from?
Q35) Which famed stage magician, and escapologist, was exhumed for further medical examination, again, in 2007?
Q36) Company CEO, Steve Jobs died in 2011: which computer company did he both co-found, and lead?
Q37) Natascha Richardson died in 2009; – in which Chekov play did she make her West End début?
Q38) What was the name given to the murder of some 50,000 French Protestants on 24 August 1572?
Q39) Which noted American actor died of a drug overdose, on October 31st, 1993?
Q40) Comedy actor Brian Wilde died in 2008: name either of the two comedy serials he appeared in.
ROUND FIVE: SCARY MONSTERS.
Q41) How did the mythological monster called the basilisk kill its victims? A41) Its stare: it would use it to turn it’s victims into stone.
Q42) What does the word ‘boggart’ refer to? A42) A kind of evil fairy.
Q43) In Celtic mythology the wailing of which supernatural being is an omen of death?
Q44) According to voodoo belief, by what name are the living dead known?
Q45) According to South American myth, the Chupacabra is a type of vampire that attacks what; - goats, sheep, or cows? A45) Goats.
Q46) The Rakshasa and the Naga are creatures from which country?
Q47) True or False; - Serbian Romany have myths of Vampire Watermelons.
A47) True. (And pumpkins, as well.)
Q48) The demonic looking Oni appear in myths and legends from which far eastern country?
Q49) Vourdalak is the Russian word for which monster: the werewolf, the vampire, or the zombie?
Q50) What’s the Japanese word for ‘Monster’?
A50) Kaiju: although, strictly, it translates as ‘strange beast’ …
ROUND SIX: WE ARE THE HALLOWEENIES …
Q51) Which Belgian noble woman was sentenced to death for bathing in the blood of servant girls she had murdered in order to keep her young?
Q52) Who said there was “something of the night”, about Tory politician Michael Howard?
Q53) What rite is used in a number of religions for the expulsion of evil spirits?
Q54) According to an ancient superstition, albatrosses are the reincarnated souls’ of drowned what: sailors, soldiers or spies?
Q55) Who was England’s Witchfinder General?
Q56) In which English county did the Pendle Witches terrify their neighbours?
Q57) Transylvania, the home of Dracula, is in which East European country?
Q58) What is the name of the ghost ship, doomed to sail the seven seas forever?
Q59) What was Joe Ahearn’s six-part 1998 vampire TV series, with more than a nod to the X-Files, starring Jack Davenport and Susannah Harker?
Q60) Who wrote the 1972 fantasy novel, The Halloween Tree?
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