Trivia › Holidays › Halloween Trivia Questions › Medium
Medium Halloween Trivia Questions
The medium questions from our halloween set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
Keys 1-4 pick an answer, Enter moves on. Nothing is saved to an account.
The medium band handles origins and sources. Samhain, the Celts, All Saints' Day, Irish emigration, Salem, Macbeth, Dracula and Frankenstein all sit here, which suits players who like history and literature as much as costumes.
14 medium halloween trivia questions with answers
Halloween's roots are traced to which ancient festival?
Answer: Samhain It marked the turn from the light half of the year to the dark half.
Samhain was a festival of which ancient peoples?
Answer: The Celts It was kept in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man in particular.
Samhain marked the end of which season?
Answer: The harvest Cattle were brought in from summer pasture and stores were counted.
All Saints' Day falls on which date?
Answer: November 1 Halloween is its eve, and All Souls' Day follows on 2 November.
Which country's emigrants are most credited with carrying Halloween customs to North America?
Answer: Ireland Nineteenth-century Irish and Scottish migration spread the traditions widely.
What is a group of witches called?
Answer: A coven The number thirteen attached to it through later fiction, not older record.
Which Shakespeare play opens with three witches on a heath?
Answer: Macbeth Their prophecy sets the whole plot in motion.
Which 1897 novel by Bram Stoker fixed the modern vampire in popular culture?
Answer: Dracula It is written as a collection of letters, diaries and cuttings.
Who wrote the 1818 novel Frankenstein?
Answer: Mary Shelley She began it as a ghost story written during a wet summer holiday.
Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Answer: Washington Irving The Headless Horseman comes from that 1820 story.
Which Massachusetts town is known for its 1692 witch trials?
Answer: Salem Nineteen people were hanged after accusations spread through the community.
What does the word 'hallow' mean in All Hallows' Eve?
Answer: A saint or holy person The same root survives in the phrase hallowed ground.
Which superstition says a mirror brings seven years of bad luck?
Answer: Breaking one The seven-year figure was borrowed from a Roman idea about the lifespan of the soul.
Which insect-like creature is the target of arachnophobia, a fear used constantly in Halloween decoration?
Answer: Spiders Cobwebs became shorthand for an abandoned, haunted room.
Answer key
- Samhain
- The Celts
- The harvest
- November 1
- Ireland
- A coven
- Macbeth
- Dracula
- Mary Shelley
- Washington Irving
- Salem
- A saint or holy person
- Breaking one
- Spiders
How to play
- Pick a mode: multiple choice, true or false, a 60-second sprint, or the daily quiz.
- Answer with a tap, or press 1 to 4 on a keyboard. The right answer appears straight away with a line explaining it.
- Finish the round to see your score, copy the result grid, and step up a difficulty.
- Hosting a night? The full halloween list and a separate answer key are printed below, and the print layout drops the game and keeps the paper.
Not in a quiz mood?
The question games are a different kind of round: no right answers, just prompts you read out and argue about. Would You RatherNever Have I EverTruth or DareThis or That