Even if you don't dress up in costume anymore and you're sick of pumpkin-spice everything, it's hard not to acknowledge the fact that there's something magical about Halloween. Between the crisp fall air, the excitement of people instead of packages lining your front door, and the heaps and heaps of candy, All Hallows' Eve is undeniably a special time of year.
But how well do you know your ghouls from your goblins when it comes to Halloween history and factoids? To find out, Stacker rounded up a list of interesting trivia about all things October 31 using J! Archive, a fan-created archive of real 'Jeopardy!' clues. Read on to test your knowledge of candy corn, pumpkin carving, and more.
Clue #1
- Clue: A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds
- Category: HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: October 28, 2019
Answer #1
- Answer: jack-o-lanterns
Clue #2
- Clue: This tri-coloured sweet, popular on Halloween, has its own national day on October 30
- Category: HALLOWEEN CANDY
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: October 31, 2011
Answer #2
- Answer: candy corn
Clue #3
- Clue: Halloween's origins are in Samhain, a festival celebrated by these people of ancient Britain & Ireland
- Category: TIME
- Value: $2,000
- Date episode aired: October 29, 2010
Answer #3
- Answer: the Celts
Clue #4
- Clue: For Halloween, 19th c. Louisianans made a midnight "dumb supper", a meal eaten without doing this, & waited for a ghost to join
- Category: HALLOWEEN IS COMING
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: October 27, 2014
Answer #4
- Answer: speaking
Clue #5
- Clue: This Halloween game may be derived from the inclusion of the goddess Pomona in the festivities
- Category: HAPPY HALLOWEEN
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: October 31, 2006
Answer #5
- Answer: bobbing for apples
Clue #6
- Clue: Halloween brings tourists to the possibly haunted Baltimore house of this macabre writer
- Category: THE GHOST
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: October 29, 1999
Answer #6
- Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Clue #7
- Clue: Wow! The neighbours gave trick-or-treaters the king size of this Nestle candy bar with a noisy name
- Category: HALLOWEEN CANDY
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: October 31, 2011
Answer #7
- Answer: Crunch
Clue #8
- Clue: It's said these 2 colours trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest
- Category: HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: October 28, 2019
Answer #8
- Answer: orange & black
Clue #9
- Clue: Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
- Category: HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: October 15, 2015
Answer #9
- Answer: the Mummy
Clue #10
- Clue: On Halloween 1846 heavy snowfall halted the progress of this hungry party near the pass now named for it
- Category: HALLOWEEN IS COMING
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: October 27, 2014
Answer #10
- Answer: the Donner Party
Clue #11
- Clue: Originally, instead of pumpkins, this small root vegetable of the mustard family was used for carving
- Category: HAPPY HALLOWEEN
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: October 31, 2006
Answer #11
- Answer: a turnip
Clue #12
- Clue: October brings out undead soldiers, vampires & ghosts, all serving the Headless Horseman at Philipsburg Manor in this N.Y. village
- Category: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: October 30, 2020
Answer #12
- Answer: Sleepy Hollow
Clue #13
- Clue: This 20th century performer's museum in Scranton, Penn. features an online seance every Halloween
- Category: HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: October 28, 2019
Answer #13
- Answer: Houdini
Clue #14
- Clue: Sink your teeth into this vampire-themed cereal that frequently makes a comeback around Halloween
- Category: VAMPIRE-POURRI
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: May 01, 2019
Answer #14
- Answer: Count Chocula
Clue #15
- Clue: In "Peanuts" Linus has spent many a Halloween waiting for this being
- Category: THAT'S "GREAT"
- Value: $100
- Date episode aired: September 21, 1999
Answer #15
- Answer: The Great Pumpkin
Clue #16
- Clue: This word follows "skeleton gas" & "bleeding hockey" in Halloween products
- Category: HALLOWEEN IS COMING
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: October 27, 2014
Answer #16
- Answer: mask
Clue #17
- Clue: The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike's better half, hung owls & goblins
- Category: HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: October 28, 2019
Answer #17
- Answer: Mamie Eisenhower
