70 Halloween Trivia Questions and Answers (Free Printable Game!)

Looking for Halloween trivia questions and answers? This free printable Halloween trivia game has tons of great Halloween trivia questions with easy questions for kids and more challenging options for teens and adults! Plus, you can print them for free to use at any party, Halloween celebration, or just at home with your family and friends!

Whether you’re looking for a Halloween trivia game, questions to ask your classroom, or even just fun Halloween questions to ask yourself – you’ll find them here!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I love coming up with new games that use Halloween trivia questions and answers!

I’ve designed a printable set of Halloween trivia questions that you can use as one of many Halloween games or just to ask to friends and family during the month of October! Or just challenge yourself by reading and answering the Halloween trivia questions in this post!

This post includes 70 different Halloween trivia questions and the printable games each include sets of 25 questions – one that’s designed to be doable by kids and teens and one that’s specifically designed to be harder for adults!

I went through all of these questions with my own family from the kids to the adults to confirm that while all of the questions are answerable, they weren’t too easy or too hard! That makes the trivia questions ideal for a Halloween party!

These Halloween trivia questions include all sorts of random Halloween facts and figures – movies, songs, history, Halloween traditions, and more! I’ve tried to include a variety without any bias toward my favorite movies or monsters!

Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids Game

Unlike my other trivia games, that include a set of trivia cards and a one page sheet, I decided to just create the one page trivia quiz for these Halloween trivia questions and answers.

If you’re really interested in the cards, feel free to email me or comment on this post, and I’ll see what I can do!

How to Get Your Halloween Trivia Ready

I recommend printing out one copy for each player or if you’d rather just read the questions and have people answer on a sheet of paper, make sure that everyone has a piece of paper and pen.

Then also make sure that you have a Halloween themed prize for the winner or you could do small prizes per question if you’re going to have people answer these individually.

How to Use These Halloween Trivia questions

There are so many different ways you can use This Halloween trivia game. You can put them on tables around the room and let people answer them at their leisure.

1. Hand them all out at once, give people a time limit, then go over the answers together after.

2. Hold onto the sheets, give people blank pieces of paper, and have people answer one at a time as you read the questions out loud.

3. Grab a list of questions and read one question out to the crowd and have the first person to answer get a prize.

4. Use them for a team trivia activity. Split into teams, ask a question, and have the teams answer it together just like a team trivia night.

It’s up to you – but there are plenty of fun trivia questions and answers for adults (and kids) so you could even do a variety of each!

Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids

I say kids but not all kids are going to be able to answer these questions and that’s intentional. Trivia wouldn’t be trivia if everyone knows all the answers!

What makes these Halloween trivia questions for kids is the fact that the content is geared toward kids with questions about things like candy, kids TV shows, and general Halloween trivia. You could definitely use these with teens as well!

List of Kids Halloween Trivia Questions

1. Who battled the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man to save New York City?

2. What candy asks you to “taste the rainbow?”

3. What number is so unlucky that most elevators skip this floor?

4. What Disney TV character’s best friend is Poppy Peepleson?

5. The most pumpkins are grown in what U.S. state?

6. In what type of transportation does Harry Potter first meet his best friends?

7. What famous video game character is chased by four ghosts named Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde?

8. In which Pixar movie does the main character Miguel visit the Land of the Dead?

9. Which Halloween monster looks like he’s wrapped up in toilet paper?

10. What 3 letter word do you yell when trying to scare someone?

11. What movie begins with Count Dracula throwing a birthday party for his 118 year old daughter Mavis?

12. What is the world’s most popular candy bar? It is layers of peanut, caramel, and nougat covered in milk chocolate.

13. What are the two official colors of Halloween?

14. In his 14-minute video for what song, Michael Jackson dances with zombies?

15. Originally kids had to sing, dance, or tell jokes while doing what Halloween night activity?

16. Count von Count was a character on what popular children’s TV series?

17. Who first attempts to tell Huey, Dewey, and Louie the “scariest story ever told?”

18. What holiday did Jack Skellington try to take control of?

19. What is the second most popular form of gummy (bears are first)?

20. What is the first name of Marvel’s Scarlet Witch?

21. What is a “bloody spooky eye” you might get during trick or treating?

22. Harry Potter is the only children’s book series that has outsold what R.L. Stine book series?

23. A trick or treater gets how many pieces of candy per house on average?

24. What monster has bolts on his neck?

25. Which witches returned to Salem when the black flame candle was lit?

26. In the traditional Halloween game, what do you bob for?

27. In It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown movie, what does Charlie Brown receive in his Halloween sack instead of candy?

28. Who wrote the story and characters for The Nightmare Before Christmas?

29. What character starts the Halloween parade at Disneyland and Walt Disney World?

30. What does the word Halloween mean?

31. The Salem Witch trials took place in what state?

32. When is All Hallows’ Eve?

Halloween Trivia Answers for Kids

Here are the answers to all of the kids Halloween trivia questions – you can also get a printable copy that has both questions and answers if you download the files at the bottom of this post!

1. Ghostbusters

2. Skittles

3. 13

4. Vampirina

5. Illinois

6. Train or Hogwarts Express

7. Pac-Man

8. Coco

9. Mummy

10. BOO

11. Hotel Transylvania

12. Snickers

13. Black and orange

14. Thriller

15. Trick or treating

16. Sesame Street

17. Mickey Mouse

18. Christmas

19. Worms

20. Wanda

21. Gumball

22. Goosebumps

23. Two

24. Frankenstein

25. Sanderson Sisters (Winifred, Mary, and Sarah)

26. Apples

27. Rocks

28. Tim Burton

29. Headless horseman

30. Hallowed evening

31. Massachusetts

32. October 31st

Halloween Trivia Questions for Adults

These questions are designed to be more challenging or about content that is more adult. These might also work for teens, that’s a judgement call for you to make.

List of Halloween Trivia Questions for Adults

1. What was Universal Studios’ first horror film with sound?

2. According to Forbes, what was the most popular Halloween candy in 2025?

3. In the Middle Ages, what now popular pets were considered symbols of the devil?

4. Which Warren Zevon Halloween song is sampled by Kid Rock’s All Summer Long?

5. What wizard was featured in Disney’s Sword in the Stone?

6. Pugsley is a member of what group?

7. What Stephen King novel takes place in the haunted Overlook Hotel?

8. Post-2007, what now occurs after Halloween thanks to intense lobbying from the candy industry?

9. What Universal movie monster has been popularized by a Top 5 all-time Broadway hit?

10. What iconic horror movie was originally titled “The Babysitter Murders?”

11. According to CT Insider , what was the most popular adult Halloween costume in 2025?

12. On Halloween night, Scottish girls pick what vegetables and examine its stems for clues about the qualities for their future husbands?

13. Every Halloween Peanuts’ Linus would skip trick or treating to wait for what character?

14. What candy was originally called “chicken feed?”

15. Keanu Reeves played what DC super hero sorcerer in a 2005 film?

16. Which magician died on Halloween?

17. What TV series runs “Treehouse of Horror” episodes every Halloween?

18. The concept of what type of monster dates all the way back to the 12th Century B.C. Epic of Gilgamesh?

19. The most famous line from what film is “I see dead people?”

20. According to Bobby Pickett, what was the “graveyard smash?”

21. What famous gothic poem begins, “once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary?”

22. In which Harry Potter book is Halloween first mentioned?

23. What 2022 Halloween movie broke the record for the most-watched movie premiere on Disney Plus?

24. Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion gets an overlay of what Halloween movie during the holidays?

25. Before pumpkins, what vegetable did the Irish and Scottish used to carve into jack-o-lanterns?

26. What Halloween season item was inspired by the Irish man known as “Stingy Jack?”

27. How many movies has the fictional Halloween character Michael Myers appeared in?

28. Who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein?

29. Which former Victoria’s Secret supermodel is known for having iconic Halloween costumes such as Fiona, Jessica Rabbit, and an Old Lady?

30. What Halloween treat was first created in the 1950s when a Kraft Foods employee experimented with caramels leftover from Halloween sales?

31. Out of all horror movies (aka scary movies), which has the highest ever worldwide box office sales?

32. What was Bram Stoker’s original name for Dracula?

33. Name one of the two theme parks that had a Freddy Krueger themed attraction for Halloween?

34. Who was the lead actor in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that won an Academy Award for his performance in the film?

35. What 1999 “found footage” horror film only took eight days to shoot and eight months to edit?

36. Which real life serial killer inspired famous movie characters such as Norman Bates from Psycho and Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

37. According to the National Retail Federation, what was the top Halloween costume for pets in 2025?

38. In what United States state is the world’s longest haunted cave?

Halloween Trivia Answers for Adults

How about the hard ones? I knew about half of them before I looked them up but some of them (like the jack-o-lanterns in Ireland one) were tough!

1. Dracula

2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

3. Black Cats

4. Werewolves of London

5. Merlin

6. The Addams Family

7. The Shining

8. Daylight Saving Time

9. The Phantom of the Opera

10. Halloween

11. Witch

12. Cabbage

13. The Great Pumpkin

14. Candy Corn

15. Constantine

16. Harry Houdini

17. The Simpsons

18. Zombies

19. The Sixth Sense

20. The Monster Mash

21. The Raven

22. The Sorcerer’s Stone

23. Hocus Pocus 2

24. Nightmare Before Christmas

25. Turnips

26. Jack o’ Lanterns

27. Twelve

28. Mary Shelley

29. Heidi Klum

30. Caramel apples

31. IT (2017 version)

32. Count Wampyr

33. Six Flags or Universal Studios

34. Fredric March

35. Blair Witch Project

36. Ed Gein

37. Pumpkin

38. Ohio (Lewisburg Haunted Cave)

Halloween Tie Breaker

If you have two or more people that get the same number of Halloween questions correct, ask them one of these tie breaker questions. They more than likely won’t get these fun facts exactly right so just say whoever gets the answer the closest is the winner!

1. On average, how much did each person in the United States spend on Halloween-related purchases in 2025? ($114.45)

2. Brach’s makes what percentage of candy corn produced each year? (85%)

3. What is the Guinness World Record for the world’s heaviest pumpkin? (3,156 pounds)

Halloween Trivia Prize Ideas

Whether you use these Halloween trivia questions for individual trivia or teams, these would make fun Halloween themed prizes that go along with the Halloween spirit!

More Halloween Trivia Questions

If you want even more Halloween trivia questions, all of these Halloween party games include trivia questions you can use for your Halloween activities!

• Halloween Jeopardy – two different complete games, one for teens and one for adults! Plus, a PowerPoint that’s already created for you!
• Web of lies game – Halloween true or false questions and a DIY vending machine to go with it!
• Monster party games – three sets of monster inspired trivia games, all about classic Halloween monsters!

Looking for more Halloween Games?

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