Halloween Games and Activities

You know the rules to Jeopardy; you have to answer with a question. Print out these answers/questions for your own Halloween Jeopardy game. Be sure to award favors to the winners.

Here are thirteen answers and their corresponding questions:

1.  I was so famous in the early days of horror films that marketing execs stopped using my name in advertising materials and merely called me "the Uncanny".

• Who is Boris Karloff?

2.  A creature that can only be killed with objects made of silver.

• What is a werewolf?

3. A plant whose fruits can grow upward of 1200 pounds.

• What is a pumpkin?

4. The name Halloween is derived from this old religious holiday.

• What is All Hallows Eve?

5.  He tried to take over Christmas when Halloween was his true domain.

• Acceptable answers: Who is Jack?  Who is the Pumpkin King? Who is Jack Skellington?

6.  He disappointed the headless horseman by crossing the old bridge in Sleepy Hollow.

• Who is Ichabod Crane?

7. Every year at Halloween he flies through the air to visit good girls and boys at the pumpkin patch with gifts of toys. 

• Who is the Great Pumpkin?

8. This Raven-ous author and poet is the most widely accepted master of the Gothic genre and was an influence on Alfred Hitchcock.

• Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

9. Over 75 years ago he created the iconic role of "Dracula".

• Who is Bela Lugosi?

10.  He was buried alive for trying to revive his love with the spell that Isis raised Osiris from the dead.

• Who is The Mummy?

11. You wouldn’t want to be one in 17th century Salem.

• What is a witch?

12.  It is considered unlucky if it were to cross your path.

• What is a black cat?

13. Two ways a vampire may be killed.

• What are wooden stakes and sunshine?