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Halloween Flashcards

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What film is this?

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Halloween

Starring Donald Pleasance and Jamie Lee Curtis

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What film is this?

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Halloween II

(1981)

Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance

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What film is this?

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Halloween III (1982)

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What film is this?

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Halloween 4

(Donald Pleasance)

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What film is this?

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Halloween 5

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What film is this?

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Donald Pleasance and Paul Rudd

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What film is this?

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Halloween H2O

Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis

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What film is this?

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Goosebumps (2018)

Starring Jack Black

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What film is this character from?

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It and It II

Bill Skarsgard

Pennywise

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What film is this?

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The Joker 2019

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What film is this?

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Carrie (1976)

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Who starred as the first Carrie?

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Carrie Spacek

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In which country did Halloween originate?

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Ireland

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What was the name of Dracula’s sidekick?

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Renfield

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Which phobia means you have an intense fear of Halloween?

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Samhainophobia

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Every Halloween, Charlie Brown helps his friend Linus wait for what character to appear?

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The Great Pumpkin

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According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what will you see?

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Your future husband or wife

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18
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Which country celebrates the Day of the Dead starting at midnight on Oct. 31?

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Mexico

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19
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Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

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Fruit

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How many people were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials?

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How many Oscars was Psycho nominated for?

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Four

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What do Halloween colors, black and orange, signify?

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Orange stands for harvest and black stands for death

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In the franchise, what is Michael Myers’ middle name?

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Audry. We learn this when he is being tried for his sister’s murder.

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What are other names of Halloween?

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Samhain, All Hallows Eve, The Feast of the Dead

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What word begins with letter C, looks like a pot and is normally used by witches to brew their potions and cast evil spells?

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Cauldron

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What is the most popular candy bought within the United States, including during the Halloween holidays?

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M&M’s

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How many colors of M&Ms are there?

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There are 25 different colors of M&M’s.

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28
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What is the name of the Irish bread often eaten at Halloween which is yeasted with added sultanas and raisins?

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Barmbrack

29
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Guy Fawkes was at the centre of which plot to assassinate King James I of England in 1605?

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Gunpowder Plot

30
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Who sang the 1962 song ‘Monster Mash’?

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Bobby Pickett and the Crypt Kickers

31
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Who are Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stantz, and Dr. Egon Spengler better known as?

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Ghostbusters

32
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What is the name of the British private detective television series, which when shown in the United States was called ‘My Partner the Ghost’?

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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

33
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Thing. T. Thing was a character from The Addams Family TV series. What was the only part of the character ever seen?

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The hand

34
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What is the name for a ghost responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved?

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Poltergeist

35
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Which TV show revolves around the Harmons, a family of three, who move from Boston to Los Angeles but find that the house they’ve moved into is haunted.

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American Horror Story

36
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Freddie Highmore stars in which prequel to Psycho which shows how his complicated relationship with his mother turned him into a serial killer?

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Bates Motel

37
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Which post-apocalyptic series, based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series of the same name, and has set the standard for the zombie horror genre? Andrew Lincoln played the leading character up to series nine.

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The Walking Dead

38
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Which science fiction horror series from Netflix is set in the fictional town of Hawkins?

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Stranger Things

39
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In the 1983 film Cujo, who or what was Cujo?

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A St. Bernard dog

40
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Which film directed by Wes Craven and starring Neve Campbell, and Courtney Cox is about a teenage girl who is terrorised by a killer a year after the murder of her mother. The killer targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

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Scream

41
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(ANAGRAM) anthem rig

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nightmare

42
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(ANAGRAM) glitter pose

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poltergeist

43
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(ANAGRAM) a piano trip

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apparition

44
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Which American magician and stuntman died of peritonitis on the halloween of 1926?

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Harry Houdini

45
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On halloween of 1984 – who was assassinated by two of her Sikh security guards?

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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

46
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Which film of 2005 starring Ryan Renolds and Melissa George is set in a house in Long Island which itself was the site of a mass murder a year earlier?

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The Amityville Horror

47
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The worlds largest halloween party takes place in which city of the British Isles? a) Birmingham b) Edinburgh c) Derry (Londonderry)

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c) Derry (Londonderry)

48
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What sort of chair were witches made to sit in as a way of testing their innocence?

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A ducking or ducking stool.

49
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The most famous witch trials in US history are known as what?

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The Salem Witch Trials.

50
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what is the name of a famous murder who lived in herefordshire (yikes)

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Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong

51
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What was Dracula’s real name?

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Vlad the Impaler

52
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What film is this?

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The Wolfman,

starring Benecio del Toro, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving

53
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Out of what vegetable were jack o’lanterns originally made?

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Turnips

54
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Where do pumpkins come from originally?

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Central America

55
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Which actor played Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

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Tim Curry

56
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What is the significance of seeing a spider on Halloween?

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It is thought to be the spirit of a loved one watching over the person who finds the spider.

57
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What film is this character from?

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The Nightmare before Christmas

Jack Skellington

58
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Pumpkins can be orange, white, green or what?

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Blue

59
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What does hallow mean?

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Saint or holy person

60
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What film in is this?

A

Saw
Jigsaw

61
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What film is this?

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Scream

Ghostface.

Starred Courtney Cox

62
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What film is this?

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The Omen

Damien Thorne (character name)

63
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What film is this?

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The Thing

Staring Kurt Russell

What form did the Thing first take: a sled dog/ husky.

64
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What film is this?

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Leatherface

65
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What movie is this?

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Cloverfield

The Cloverfield monster

66
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What film is this?

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Pinhead

67
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What movie is this?

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Friday the 13th

Character Jason Voorhees

Mother is Pamela Voorhees

68
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Who is this?

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Heidi Klum

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