About Halloween quizzes
Here's a bit more information on what you can expect from our Halloween quizzes, with some example questions to follow.
Our Halloween quizzes are designed to get some laughs for envoking some light hearted disgust. They contain questions that should be easily answered by any well-informed horror lover, and well guessed at by others.
Blockbuster rounds
There are 3 types of blockbuster rounds that come up in our Halloween quizzes.
Blockbusters ABC - All the answers begin with the letter/s specified
Blockbusters Trivia Trail - The last letter of the first answer, is the first letter of the second answer, and so on
Blockbusters 9 spells 10 - The first letters of the first 9 answers, spells the final answer in the round
Choices when you order
Having been writing and supplying quizzes to pubs since 1990, we understand that not all landlords, managers and quiz teams enjoy the same format of quiz or difficulty level of questions; and that some have the need or wish to simply lay out quiz sheets on the tables for teams to complete and hand in. For more detail on these choices;
Choice of difficulty level
Easy, Regular or Hard.
Choice of format (Random or categorised)
Random format
The questions get merged into a number of straight miscellaneous rounds UNLESS it makes sense to keep the blockbuster round grouped.
Categorised format
Quizzes are laid out in the following rounds;
Q 1 to 25 - Halloween Miscellaneous
Q 26 to 35 - Halloween Blockbusters round
Q 36 to 45 - Halloween Miscellaneous
Choice of version (Quizmaster or tabletop)
Quizmaster version
Contains the questions & answers ready for a quizmaster to read out.
Tabletop version
Questions and answers and ALSO provides sheets with just the questions & blank spaces for the teams to write their answers in - a quizmaster is not necessarily needed. This is useful if your pub is laid out in two or more bars, or if you want to run a quiz on a sunny, sunday afternoon, in the garden for instance.
Example Halloween questions;
Q
In what film does Drew Barrymore get creeped out on the phone, when an apparent wrong-caller chats for a while then asks her name... she asks why, and he replies 'I want to know who I'm looking at'?
A
Scream
The 1996 Wes Craven film that re-invented and satirised the slasher genre of horror films / This scene opens the film and results in a dead Drew Barrymore, with her body gutted, hanging from a tree
Q
In Egyptian mummification, which organ was not preserved like others, but instead mashed up & pulled out with a hook?
A
The brain
It was removed by breaking the thin bone separating the nasal and cranial cavities & inserting a hooked rod through the nose which was used to stir and mash the brain to turn it into a liquid, so it could be poured & pulled out through the nose
Q
According to Irish legend, what Halloween ne'er-do-well was turned away by both God & the Devil, and condemned to roam the earth with nothing but an ember from hell & a turnip?
A
Jack (Drunk or Stingy Jack)
The legend of Jack of the Lantern is one reason we call our carved pumpkins 'Jack O'Lanterns' / The legend tells that Jack was turned away from heaven for being bad, turned away from hell for playing tricks on the Devil, and as a lost soul was condemned to roam the earth for ever more / The Devil mockingly tossed him an ember from the flames of hell, that would never burn out, which he put inside a carved out turnip
As with all holiday seasons, we try to avoid getting too bogged down with the complicated history involved but do touch on it.