101 Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids
January 30, 2025
These 101 Halloween trivia questions for kids will have your young ones getting into the spooky spirit in no time. There are easy, medium, and more challenging questions for kids of all ages. Have fun getting to the bottom of the list!
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Easy Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids
1. What do we call a pumpkin that we carved specifically for Halloween?
A Jack-o-Lantern
2. What is it called when you go house-to-house to collect candy on Halloween?
Trick or Treat!
3. What does a witch ride around on?
A broom
4. What kind of animal does a witch tend to keep as a pet?
A black cat
5. What’s the name of the large pot that a witch might mix potions in?
A cauldron
6. If you poke holes in a bed sheet and wear it over your head, what simple costume did you just make?
A ghost costume
7. What kind of Halloween monster has sharp teeth and drinks blood?
A vampire
8. What kind of Halloween monster is wrapped in long strips of white bandages?
A mummy
9. What small animal that flies around at night is often associated with vampires?
The bat
10. What kind of hat does a witch wear?
A pointy hat
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11. What day does Halloween fall every year?
October 31
12. What are the colors most commonly associated with Halloween?
Orange and black
13. What do you wear when you go trick or treating?
A Halloween costume
14. What kind of Halloween monster turns into a large wolf under the full moon?
A werewolf
15. What’s the most traditional thing to carve into a Jack-o-lantern?
A fun or spooky face
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16. What version of the moon is thought to be the spookiest and also associated with Halloween?
The full moon
17. What common household product can you use to make a mummy costume? Hint: There’s a fun game that involves wrapping a person in this stuff to make a mummy as fast as possible.
Toilet paper
18. What are the tiny sized versions of candy bars called that you get during Trick or Treat?
Fun sized!
19. Finish the line: “Who you gonna call?”
Ghostbusters!
20. What’s the thick slime called that ghosts leave behind in the movie Ghostbusters?
Ectoplasm
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21. What’s the name of the friendly ghost about whom movies and comic books have been made?
Casper
22. What’s the name of the movie and TV series about a spooky family who live together in a big old house, including Morticia, Gomez, and Wednesday?
The Addams Family
23. Which famous young actress recently portrayed Wednesday Addams in the TV series Wednesday?
Jenny Ortega
24. What scary guy in a striped suit do you summon if you say his name three times?
Beetlejuice
25. True or false: the United States is the only country that celebrates Halloween.
False! There are about more than 30 countries that celebrate Halloween, and the holiday is growing in popularity.
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26. The traditional Mexican holiday that celebrates the people we have lost that is frequently celebrated just after Halloween (or sometimes overlapping with Halloween) is called what?
Day of the Dead
27. How do you say “Day of the Dead” in Spanish?
Dia de los Muertos
28. What part of the human skeleton do Mexicans traditionally decorate and paint onto their faces to celebrate Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos?
A skull
29. Multiple choice: How many pounds of candy can the average American eat around Halloween?
a. 37 pounds of candy
b. One half pound of candy
c. 101 pounds of candy
d. Three to four pounds of candy
Answer: Three to four pounds of candy!
30. True or False: Americans spend billions of dollars on Halloween candy each year.
True! Every year, Americans spend a whopping $3.5 billion on Halloween candy.
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31. If Americans eat three to four pounds of candy on average during Halloween, how many cups of sugar does that mean they’re consuming?
About three whole cups of sugar
32. What fruit do people go “bobbing” for during the Halloween season?
Apples
33. True or false: all American towns and cities schedule trick or treat so that it happens right on October 31.
False! Many American towns and cities schedule Halloween for the weekend before October 31, if Halloween happens to fall on a weekday.
34. True or false: only kids younger than 10 years old can trick or treat.
False! Kids of any age can trick or treat—and their parents frequently go with them.
35. If you happen to go trick or treating by visiting a bunch of parked cars rather than going house to house, what is that called?
Trunk or treat
36. What does a ghost say when it scares you?
Boo!
37. What animated movie features Jack Skellington and involves both Christmas and Halloween?
The Nightmare Before Christmas
38. Which popular Halloween song includes the line, “It was a graveyard smash!” and “It caught on in a flash!”
“The Monster Mash”
39. What’s the most popular Halloween candy? Hint: You might love this chocolate and peanut butter combination yourself!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
40. One of the most popular Halloween costumes of 2024 was a character from the movie Beetlejuice who wears a large jacket and has a characteristically tiny head. What’s his name?
Shrunken Head Bob
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41. What’s the name of the young wizard who is the title character of his own book series, otherwise known as The Boy Who Lived?
Harry Potter
42. Where does Harry Potter go to school?
Hogwarts
43. Who are Harry Potter’s best friends?
Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger
44. What’s the name of the half-giant groundskeeper at Hogwarts?
Hagrid
45. How tall is Hagrid, according to the Harry Potter books?
About eight feet tall
46. Who is the name of the wizard who is in charge of Hogwarts?
Dumbledore
47. What is the name of the jellybean in Harry Potter that can have all kinds of delicious—but also disgusting—flavors?
Berties Botts Every Flavor Beans
48. Where do the students go to leave Hogwarts and go shopping in the Harry Potter books?
Diagon Alley
49. What is the name of the jumping animal made of chocolate that the characters in Harry Potter love to eat?
Chocolate Frogs
50. What’s the most popular beverage in Harry Potter?
Butterbeer
Medium Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids
51. What is the story about the headless horseman called?
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
52. Before Jenny Ortega, which then-young actress portrayed Wednesday in the film Addams Family Values in 1993?
Christina Ricci
53. Two years later, in 1905, Christina Ricci developed a crush on a ghost in which movie?
Casper
54. Which actor plays Beetlejuice in both the 1988 and 2024 films?
Michael Keaton
55. In the Catholic faith, November 1 is known as what holiday?
All Saints Day
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56. Who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas?ra
Tim Burton
57. What song by Michael Jackson is considered the most popular Halloween song?
“Thriller”
58. What’s the famous song that Jack Skellington sings in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
“This is Halloween”
59. What is a group of witches called?
A coven
60. What is a group of crows called?
A murder
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61. Michael Myers is the scary character who wears a white mask and searches for murder victims in which 1978 film?
Halloween
62. A Nightmare on Elm Street features this scary character who wears a striped shirt, wears a glove with long blades for fingers, and kills his victims in their dreams. Who is he?
Freddy Krueger
63. What’s the name of the disembodied hand in The Addams Family?
Thing
64. In the first Beetlejuice movie, Winona Ryder and the other characters dance around to a classic song by Harry Belafonte called what?
“Jump in the Line (Shake Senora)”
65. What are the names of the witches in Hocus Pocus?
Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson
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66. What is the spiritual or animal companion that follows a witch around?
A witch’s familiar
67. What can’t vampires be exposed to?
Daylight / sunlight
68. What country do we tend to say vampires come from?
Transylvania
69. Which series of novels for teens and pre-teens was written by R.L. Stine and features stories about the occult, supernatural, and paranormal?
Goosebumps
70. Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in this 2006 film about a scary, living house that can only be killed when its heart is struck.
Monster House
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71. When the monsters of the world need a break and want to relax, they go to Count Dracula’s resort in this famous animated film of which there are four sequels.
Hotel Transylvania
72. It’s not a sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas, but this Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter uses the same animation style and features a bride in the underworld who was murdered after eloping with her lover. What is the film called?
The Corpse Bride
73. What’s the “most hated” Halloween candy? Hint: Even though people don’t like it, you see it everywhere!
Candy corn
74. What Halloween candy has caused Americans the most dental issues?
Challenging Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids
75. If a black cat crosses your path, how many years of bad luck does it cause?
Seven years of bad luck
76. The witches in the Shakespearean play Macbeth say “Double, double, toil and trouble,” when they sing about making a potion. The witches in which famous movie say the same thing?
Hocus Pocus
77. What’s the name of the title character of the spooky novel written by Bram Stoker?
Dracula
78. What book frequently associated with Halloween did the novelist Mary Shelley write?
79. True or false: Frankenstein is the name of the large, reanimated monster.
False: Frankenstein is the last name of Dr. Frankenstein, the man who creates the monster
80. Who wrote the short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in 1820?
Washington Irving
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81. What is the name of the main character in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?
Ichabod Crane
82. The headless horseman is supposedly a Hessian soldier who died in war. Each night, he rises from his grave to search for what?
His missing head!
83. Halloween has its origins in the ancient festival Samhain where people would don costumes to ward off ghosts. From which culture does Samhain come?
Celtic
84. Another one of the most popular Halloween costumes of 2024 was this Olympic performer who really “shot” to stardom during her breakdance performance. What’s her name?
Raygun
85. What is the name of the 1990 movie starring Johnny Depp who plays a man with scissors for hands?
Edward Scissorhands
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86. Tim Burton also directed a movie in the same style of The Nightmare Before Christmas about a young girl who is transported to the ideal version of her life—but who has to escape so that she doesn’t get trapped there. What’s the name of that film?
Coraline
87. Which famous actress plays Winifred in Hocus Pocus?
Bette Midler
88. Which actress plays Mary in Hocus Pocus?
Kathy Najimy
89. Which actress plays Sarah in Hocus Pocus?
Sarah Jessica Parker
90. What’s the name of the 1998 film in which Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock decide to learn witchcraft?
Practical Magic
Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
91. Finish this sentence from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked ____ ___ _____.”
This way comes
92. Edgar Allen Poe penned this famous poem about a black bird who comes to knock on the door.
93. Finish the line from “The Raven”: “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—Only this ___ _______ ____.”
And nothing more
94. In which American city did Edgar Allen Poe grow up?
Baltimore
95. Baltimore’s football team is named in honor of Edgar Allen Poe. What is the name of the team?
The Baltimore Ravens
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96. This 1922 film about a vampire has recently been remade and stars Lily Rose Depp, Johnny Depp’s daughter. What is it called?
Nosferatu
97. At the climax of the novel Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein chases his monster across the icy landscape of which place? Hint: Surprisingly, they don’t run into Santa Claus
The Arctic
98. What allows Dr. Frankenstein to animate (or, bring to life) his monster’s body?
An electric spark
99. True or false: Dr. Frankenstein admits to taking body parts from “dissecting rooms and slaughter houses” in order to build his monster.
True! We can infer from this line that Dr. Frankenstein used human and animal body parts to build his monster.
100. Multiple Choice: In what year what Bram Stoker’s Dracula originally published?
a. 2000
b. 1756
c. 1897
d. 1994
Answer: C, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published on May 26, 1897.
101. Where does the largest Halloween parade in the world take place?
The largest Halloween parade in the world is the Village Parade in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York.
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