Halloween Trivia for Kids
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126 free Halloween Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
25 free Halloween Trivia for Kids questions with answers. Halloween trivia that kids can actually win. These 126 questions stay on the friendly side of spooky — pumpkins, bats, candy corn, trick-or-treating and the Day of the Dead — with four options each and an explanation you can read out afterwards. Good for classrooms, car journeys and the half hour before the costumes go on. Every answer is checked against a real source, so nobody has to argue.
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Q 01What is the big iron pot in which a storybook witch brews her potions called?
A cauldron
A cauldron owes much of its spooky fame to Shakespeare: the witches in Macbeth chant 'Double, double toil and trouble' while stirring one.
Q 02The word Halloween is a shortened form of which older name?
All Hallows' Eve
All Hallows' Eve is the evening before All Saints' Day, a hallow being an old word for a saint; Scots speakers squeezed 'even' down to 'e'en', which gave Hallowe'en.
Q 03Why did people once set carved lanterns on their windowsills?
To keep harmful spirits out
To keep harmful spirits out, people in Ireland and Britain set lanterns carved with grotesque faces on windowsills and by doors, hoping the fright would turn evil visitors away.
Q 04Botanically speaking, a pumpkin counts as which of these?
A berry
A berry, to a botanist, is a fleshy fruit grown from a single flower's ovary, so pumpkins and cucumbers count, as a hard-rinded kind called a pepo, while strawberries do not.
Q 05The champion pumpkin at California's Half Moon Bay weigh-off in 2023 weighed closest to which figure?
2,750 lb
Close to 2,750 lb: the 2,749-pound winner was the heaviest pumpkin ever weighed at the time, and British growers have since pushed the record past 2,850 lb.
Q 06Wild pumpkins and the first farmed ones came from which part of the world?
North America
North America is the pumpkin's home: its wild ancestors grew in what is now Mexico and the southern United States, and pictures of pumpkins reached Europe only after colonists had settled there.
Q 07Which 2017 Pixar film follows a boy named Miguel into the Land of the Dead?
Coco
Coco is set during Mexico's Day of the Dead: Miguel needs a family blessing to get home, and the dead fade away for good once nobody alive remembers them.
Q 08Which cakes were handed out to people who went door to door at Allhallowtide?
Soul cakes
Soul cakes were given in exchange for prayers for the dead, and the custom is a likely ancestor of trick-or-treating.
Q 09The Halloween call children make at the door was first recorded in print in which country?
Canada
Canada has the earliest known print uses: an Ontario newspaper reported youngsters calling 'tricks or treats' at doors in 1917, well before the phrase spread south in the 1930s.
Q 10In apple bobbing, how are players supposed to get an apple out of the water?
Using only their teeth
Using only their teeth, hands behind their backs, players chase the bobbing fruit; the game may go back to Roman Britain, where the apple was the symbol of the fruit goddess Pomona.
Q 11Bats are the only mammals that can do which of these?
Fly under their own power
Fly under their own power is the bat's unique trick among mammals: flying squirrels, colugos and sugar gliders can only glide, while a bat truly flaps its wings.
Q 12Bats belong to which order of animals?
Chiroptera
Chiroptera is Greek for hand-wing: a bat's wing is thin skin stretched between long finger bones.
Q 13How do most bats find insects and obstacles in the dark?
Echolocation
Echolocation means sending out ultrasonic squeaks and reading the echoes that bounce back, building a sound picture of the dark.
Q 21Which company makes Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
Hershey
Hershey once employed H. B. Reese, who made sweets in his basement while working at its factory; his six sons merged the family firm into Hershey in 1963.
Q 22Which advertising slogan belongs to Skittles?
Taste the rainbow
'Taste the rainbow' came from an American ad agency; the sweets themselves started out in Britain and were imported to the United States before American production began in 1982.
Q 23In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, what makes the Wicked Witch of the West melt?
A bucket of water
A bucket of water does it by accident: Dorothy throws it to put out the Scarecrow's burning arm, and the splash that reaches the Witch melts her away.
Q 14Candy corn is made in white, orange and which third colour?
Yellow
The yellow, orange and white bands are meant to look like a kernel of corn on the cob, or the colours of the fall harvest.
Q 15Mexico's Day of the Dead is traditionally held on which dates?
1 and 2 November
Día de los Muertos runs on 1 and 2 November; in many towns 1 November honours children and 2 November adults, though celebrations can begin on 31 October.
Q 16What is an ofrenda?
A home altar for the dead
A home altar for the dead, the ofrenda is laid with the favourite food, drink and photographs of relatives who have died, to welcome their spirits back for a visit.
Q 17Brightly decorated sugar skulls are known in Spanish by which name?
Calaveras
Calaveras simply means skulls; the sugar ones began as gifts for children to eat, and a name is often piped in icing across the forehead.
Q 18Which author wrote the Goosebumps series of spooky children's books?
R. L. Stine
R. L. Stine started out in comedy, publishing joke books as 'Jovial Bob Stine', before his first scary novel in 1986 set him on the road to Goosebumps.
Q 19In a 2025 US survey, which Halloween activity was the most popular of all?
Handing out candy
Handing out candy led the National Retail Federation's 2025 survey: about two-thirds of people planned to do it, so more Americans meant to give sweets than to wear a costume.
Q 20In a 2025 US survey, which superhero was the top Halloween costume choice for children?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man topped the National Retail Federation's 2025 list, with about 2.3 million children planning to dress as him, while grown-ups stuck with the classic witch.
Q 24Which word describes animals, such as bats and owls, that are active mainly at night?
Nocturnal
Nocturnal animals lean on sharp hearing, smell and night vision; pet cats, often called nocturnal, are really crepuscular, busiest at dawn and dusk.
Q 25Which day comes immediately after All Saints' Day?
All Souls' Day
All Souls' Day is for praying for the dead; in many countries families spend it visiting graves, lighting candles and leaving flowers.
Q 26Which ancient Gaelic festival, marking the start of winter, is usually said to be the root of Halloween?
Samhain
Samhain, held around 1 November, marked the end of harvest and the start of winter across the Gaelic world, including the Isle of Man, a night when the otherworld was thought to draw near.
Q 27In Ireland, finding the ring baked into a Halloween barmbrack loaf is said to promise what?
Marriage within a year
Marriage within a year is the ring's promise; other charms baked into the loaf told other fortunes, such as a coin for riches and a rag for hard times.
Q 28Before pumpkins, what vegetable did Halloween pranksters in Ireland and Britain hollow out for lanterns?
Turnips
Turnips were hollowed out and carved with faces in Ireland and Britain; when the custom crossed the Atlantic, the pumpkin proved bigger and softer to carve, and took over.
Q 29What are the traditional colours of Halloween?
Black and orange
Black and orange are the traditional pair, with purple sometimes joining them: orange is the colour of the autumn harvest, and black suits a night given over to ghosts.
Q 30What is a baby bat called?
A pup
A pup is usually an only child: most bat mothers raise just one a year, which makes bats some of the slowest-breeding mammals of their size.