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1. Halloween falls on the last day of which month? Answer: October
2. How many legs does a spider have? Answer: Eight
3. Are spiders insects? Answer: No, they are arachnids
4. Bats are the only mammals that can truly do what? Answer: Fly
5. To a botanist, is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable? Answer: A fruit
6. What is a carved pumpkin with a light inside called? Answer: A jack-o'-lantern
7. What do spiders make their webs from? Answer: Silk
8. What do you call a person in stories who turns into a wolf? Answer: A werewolf
9. What three words do children say at the door on Halloween? Answer: Trick or treat
10. What are the three colors of traditional candy corn? Answer: Yellow, orange and white
11. What is a witch's big cooking pot called? Answer: A cauldron
12. In stories, what do witches ride through the sky? Answer: A broomstick
13. In vampire stories, what smelly food keeps vampires away? Answer: Garlic
14. What do we call the wrapped, preserved bodies of ancient Egypt? Answer: Mummies
15. Which part of your skeleton protects your brain? Answer: The skull
16. In stories, what kind of moon makes a werewolf change? Answer: A full moon
17. What are baby bats called? Answer: Pups
18. Do bats sleep hanging upside down or lying down? Answer: Hanging upside down
19. What party game has players grab floating fruit with their teeth? Answer: Bobbing for apples
20. What animal is most often shown as a witch's pet? Answer: A black cat
21. What word describes animals that are active at night, like bats and owls? Answer: Nocturnal
22. In vampire stories, what can a vampire not see in a mirror? Answer: Its own reflection
23. Before pumpkins, what root vegetable did people in Ireland and Scotland most often carve into lanterns? Answer: Turnips
24. What ancient Celtic festival is Halloween usually traced back to? Answer: Samhain
25. What Christian feast day falls on November 1, the day after Halloween? Answer: All Saints' Day
26. The word Halloween is a short form of what older name? Answer: All Hallows' Eve
27. Who wrote the novel Dracula? Answer: Bram Stoker
28. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein? Answer: Mary Shelley
29. In the novel Frankenstein, is Frankenstein the scientist or the monster? Answer: The scientist
30. In what year was the novel Frankenstein first published? Answer: 1818
31. In the novel Dracula, what region is the Count's castle in? Answer: Transylvania
32. Transylvania is part of which modern country? Answer: Romania
33. What is the name of the professor who hunts Dracula in the novel? Answer: Van Helsing
34. What is it called when bats find their way by listening for echoes? Answer: Echolocation
35. What do vampire bats feed on? Answer: Blood
36. What is the word for a strong fear of spiders? Answer: Arachnophobia
37. In werewolf stories, what metal are the bullets that can stop one made of? Answer: Silver
38. Which Washington Irving story has a Headless Horseman? Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
39. Who wrote the poem The Raven? Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
40. What one word does the raven keep repeating in Poe's poem? Answer: Nevermore
41. Who wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
42. What Massachusetts town held witch trials in 1692? Answer: Salem
43. In Irish folklore, which trickster is doomed to roam the night carrying a lantern? Answer: Stingy Jack (Jack of the Lantern)
44. In the novel Dracula, at what English seaside town does the Count's ship come ashore? Answer: Whitby
45. Which Shakespeare play has witches chanting "Double, double toil and trouble"? Answer: Macbeth

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Five from this list: Bats are the only mammals that can truly do what? (Fly) In vampire stories, what smelly food keeps vampires away? (Garlic) In vampire stories, what can a vampire not see in a mirror? (Its own reflection) In the novel Dracula, what region is the Count's castle in? (Transylvania) What one word does the raven keep repeating in Poe's poem? (Nevermore)

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