Halloween Quiz: Spooky Trivia

Fifteen questions on Samhain, jack-o'-lanterns, Dracula, Frankenstein and other things that go bump in the night. Host it at your Halloween party.

Questions

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1. On which date is Halloween celebrated?
2. Which ancient Celtic festival is Halloween traced back to?
3. Before pumpkins, which vegetable did people in Ireland carve into lanterns?
4. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein, published in 1818?
5. Count Dracula's castle is in Transylvania. Which country is Transylvania part of today?
6. What is the fear of Halloween called?
7. Which US state grows the most pumpkins?
8. Bats are blind.
9. Which 1978 horror film directed by John Carpenter is named after the holiday?
10. Which composer wrote the spooky tone poem Danse macabre?
11. Put these novels in order of publication, earliest first.
12. Which of these novels did Stephen King write?
13. The escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween.
14. What is a group of crows called?
15. In which year was Bram Stoker's Dracula first published?