Halloween Quiz 2024 - Sunday Quiz

Round 1: Connection Round

There’s a connection between the 10 answers.

From the smugglers' practice of concealing bottles in clothing, what a person who makes, distributes, or sells goods illegally is called a what?

Historically used for hunting, sport, and despite being considered an Australian icon, what tool has also been discovered in Egypt, the Americas, and Eurasia?

Meaning "tree snake" in Dutch and Afrikaans, what is a highly venomous snake native to Sub-Saharan Africa?

What system commonly used to secure footwear has become synonymous with a phrase telling you to "Pick yourself up" by them?

Especially in the U.S. penal system, what is a type of correctional facility for adolescents and a short but very difficult training program?

What are things that help, encourage, or improve someone or something – seen attached to space rockets?

What is the short, informal term for the demographic cohort of people born between 1946 and 1964, the generation born before Generation X?

What is an informal term for a person who drinks large quantities of alcohol – in Britain a pub or bar?

Something asked or granted as a favour, or something pleasant or helpful that comes at just the right time is called a what?

What music genre featured a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues was originally played on the piano?

Round 2: Horror Computer Games

10 questions about computer games which are in the horror genre.

After the success of Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City, which Rockstar game sees a criminal sentenced to death row who gets a "starring" role in a mysterious director's snuff film?

In what computer game do four players join together as amateur ghost hunters and attempt to successfully identify what kind of ghost is haunting their location?

Which game launched in 2016 started life as a asymmetrical slasher horror and has continued evolving and adding characters such as Freddy Kreuger, Pyramid Head, and more?

Set in a decaying underwater research facility, which sequel to the game "Amnesia" navigates themes of identity, consciousness, and the role of artificial intelligence?

Released in 1996, with players exploring the Spencer Mansion, what was the first game in a long-running (and extremely successful) series?

Known for its smart AI director, which game from 2008 sees four players stranded in a quarantine zone trying to overcome undead hordes including Witches, Smokers, and Boomers?

In which game is the aim that you outwit a single, indestructible xenomorph that stalks you around the sprawling Sevastopol space station?

In which game do you play as Isaac Clarke exploring a derelict spacecraft full of Necromorphs which need to be dismembered to defeat?

The first instalment in which game series follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the mysterious and eponymous New England town?

Set in the 1930s Derceto Mansion, which 2024 game is a reimagining of the 1992 original and is the seventh instalment in the video game series?

Round 3: Picture Round – Horror Film Posters

Identify the 10 films from their posters.

What film is this the poster for?

Round 4: Music Intros – Spooky Music

10 music intros. Identify the artist for each song.

Who performed this song?

Round 5: Horror Literature

10 questions about horror writers and novels.

The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of which Anglo-American horror writer?

Focusing on a fictional documentary film titled the Navidson Record, what was the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski?

Which novel by pseudonymous author Riley Sager is told in split narrative, alternating chapters, focusing on Maggie Holt and her father Ewan?

Which novel 1959 by American author Shirley Jackson has been made into two feature films, a play, and is the basis of a 2018 Netflix series?

With two sequels – Spiral and Loop – what Japanese mystery horror novel by Koji Suzuki was first published in 1991 and has been turned into a series of films?

In which Stephen King novel are the setting and characters influenced by King's personal experiences, including his visit to The Stanley Hotel?

First published online as a webserial beginning in 2001, John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel by Jason Pargin, written under which pseudonym?

Regarded as the first true science fiction story because of deliberate laboratory experiments by the central character, what novel was originally published anonymously in 1818?

With no single protagonist, which 1897 gothic horror novel is an epistolary novel, with the narrative being related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles?

Also a 1973 film, what novel by William Peter Blatty details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil – the daughter of a famous actress?

Round 6: Halloween Dingbats

Can you solve the 10 vaguely spooky dingbats?

What is this dingbat?