40 Halloween pub quiz questions and answers

Which 2022 Netflix series starring Jenna Ortega follows the Addams Family daughter at Nevermore Academy?

What is the name of the van driven by the gang in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, first shown in 1969?

In which 1983 Roald Dahl book is a boy turned into a mouse by the Grand High Witch?

In Stephenie Meyer's 2005 novel Twilight, what is the name of the vampire Bella falls in love with?

Who wrote the Goosebumps series of children's spooky books, which began in 1992?

Which British studio, based at Bray, made a famous series of colour horror films starting with The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957?

Who wrote The Worst Witch, the 1974 book about Mildred Hubble at Miss Cackle's Academy?

Which 1973 film directed by William Friedkin tells of a girl possessed by a demon?

Which actress played the witch Winifred Sanderson in the 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus?

Which American author wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, published in 1820?

What kind of creature is Count Dracula?

What do witches traditionally ride through the night sky?

What is the name of the female spirit of Irish folklore whose wailing warns of a death in the family?

Which actor played Count Dracula in Hammer's 1958 film Dracula?

Which British owl, with a heart-shaped white face, gives an eerie screech rather than a hoot?

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, what does Dorothy throw over the Wicked Witch of the West to make her melt?

Which poet hosted the 1816 ghost-story contest at the Villa Diodati that inspired Frankenstein?

Beside which lake was Mary Shelley staying in 1816 when she began writing Frankenstein?

In Bram Stoker's Dracula, what animal is seen leaping ashore from the wrecked ship at Whitby, the form in which the Count is taken to arrive?

Elsa Lanchester played the title role in which 1935 Universal horror film?

What name is given to a carved, hollowed-out pumpkin with a candle inside?

Which simple homemade Halloween costume is made from a white sheet with two eye holes cut in it?

Which 2017 Pixar film is set during Mexico's Day of the Dead?

In which Halloween party game do players kneel over a tub of water and try to grab floating fruit using only their teeth?

Halloween is a shortened form of which phrase?

What is pan de muerto, eaten in Mexico during the Day of the Dead?

Which pigment gives pumpkins and carrots their orange colour?

Which small striped sweet, shaped like a kernel and coloured yellow, orange and white, is a Halloween favourite in the United States?

On what date is All Souls' Day, when Christians remember the faithful departed?

What name was given to the medieval custom of poor people going door to door at Hallowtide, receiving small cakes in return for praying for the dead?

What is the name of the friendly ghost who befriends Christina Ricci in the 1995 film of the same name?

In legend, a werewolf transforms under which phase of the moon?

Which 1986 Stephen King novel features the shape-shifting clown Pennywise?

Which horror film legend performed the spoken-word section at the end of the title track of Michael Jackson's 1982 album Thriller?

Which Lancashire hill gives its name to the famous witch trials of 1612?

Which solicitor travels to Transylvania to meet the Count at the start of Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Which 1922 German silent film was an unauthorised adaptation of Dracula, with a vampire called Count Orlok?

In which mountain range does Bram Stoker place Castle Dracula?

In Dracula, which patient at Dr Seward's asylum eats flies and spiders?

What are the decorated sugar skulls made for Mexico's Day of the Dead called in Spanish?