We throw a Halloween party every year and its my most favorite party to throw. You can see our past invites here and here to see some of our themes and other Halloween ideas here.

This year we decided we wanted to play Halloween Jeopardy and I searched the internet far and wide for ideas, but fell pretty short coming up with much. There were a few places that had sheets with questions on them for party guest to work on but I didn’t find much in the way of an actual jeopardy game so I spent the next 5 hours using ideas from different quizzes I found online, as well as Halloween fact sheets I found, to come up with the actual Halloween Jeopardy questions. I actually found way more questions than I had room for so I had to cut some….. maybe I can use them for next years party.

I came up with 14 categories total and 5 questions per category ranging from easy (100) to harder (500) and then I made the Double Jeopardy questions even harder.

Our party is a family party so I wanted some questions on Halloween Jeopardy to be harder to get the adults involved and some of the questions to be easier for the young kids to have fun as well.

We broke up into 4 teams and my husband kept track of everyone’s points, while I asked the questions. He said he was my Vana White, I told him that was the wrong game. I’m glad he loves me enough to go along with my silly shenanigans.

To make the Halloween Jeopardy board I simply added the 7 categories to the top of my poster boards and then taped on 100-500 and 200-1000 under each category like on Jeopardy. When a group chose a question I removed the paper attached to the category and number and then read the question off my sheets of paper that I had. I printed off all the questions so I could just have them all in my hand to ask the questions from.

We changed up our Halloween Jeopardy from the real jeopardy since we didn’t have buzzers and I didn’t want to worry about who “buzzed in” first, so instead each group just went in a round picking the question and answering it. If they couldn’t answer the question they picked in 15 seconds then another group had a chance to steal. Each group had a spokesperson to answer the question so there was no confusion and then that same person had to raise their hand to try to steal the question from the group who didn’t answer correctly. If the group got it right they got the points and the game continued on. If a particular group got the answer right, they didn’t get to go again like in real jeopardy just because I wanted every team to have a chance to answer. If we were playing with an older group I would have had us play like regular jeopardy. Our teams ended up being one full of adults, one group of teenagers, a group of 9-11 year old boys and then a mixed group so I wanted to hopefully make it fair for the younger groups since I know the adult group would be able to answer more of the questions. ( I tried to tell the kids to make sure they had some adults on their team, but I’m just a Mom so what do I know?)

I didn’t get a ton of pictures because I was so busy partying it up, but my awesome friend took some for me. Hopefully you get the idea of how to make the board from this picture. It was nothing super fancy, it got the point across and I didn’t stress to much about it being “gorgeous” because I was too busy celebrating the holiday season with my kiddos (and baseball, lots and lots of baseball).

This was by far our most favorite party yet. I think everyone had a blast playing the game (the little kids had a blast running around destroying upstairs, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.) I’d say we effectually put a spell on our guests and had one Hocus Pocus filled fun evening.

Here are the questions for Halloween Jeopardy, including Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy.

SINGLE JEOPARDY

Characters

100 Name the 3 Sanderson Sisters.

-Winnifred, Sarah and Mary

200 What movie has a Goblin King?

-Labyrinth

300 Who is the avid believer in the Great Pumpkin on “Its a great pumpkin charlie brown” cartoon?

-Linus

400 Who do the trick or treater accidentally kidnap in the Nightmare before christmas?

-Easter Bunny

500 What cute creature cant get wet?

-Gremlins

Sweet Tooth

100 Nutty Happiness

-Almond joy

200 2 female pronouns

-Hershey

300 Famous Trio of old

-3 musketeers

400 Not laughing out loud

-Snickers

500 Best reason to work

-Payday

Things that go bump in the night (monsters)

100 Decapitated Equestrian

-Headless horseman

200 Chainsaw welding maniac

-Leatherface

300 Goalie masked carries knife

-Jason

400 Soul sucker

-Dementor

500 Precious Obsessed

-Gollum

Whats it all mean

100 What halloween movie is about a dog?

-Frankenweenie

200 What are male witches called?

-Warlocks

300 What cartoon movie has a mom with button eyes?

-Coraline

400 Whats the last ingredient in the Sanderson sisters spell?

-dead mans toe

500 What phobia do you suffer from if you have a fear of Halloween?

-Samhainophobia

Pumpkin

100 Which Disney Princess caught a ride on a pumpkin?

-Cinderella

200 Pumpkins are what? Fruit, vegetable, or mineral?

-Fruit

300 What percentage of Pumpkins sold are used for Jack O Lanterns at Halloween?

-99%

400 How much water are pumpkins made out of?

-90%

500 How much did the largest pumpkin ever grown weigh?

-1,140 lbs

It happened at Night

(places)

100 What city actually hung people they thought to be witches?

-Salem

200 What movie is the tag line “ Where monsters go to get away from it all.”

-Hotel Tranylvania

300 What is the name of the motel in the movie Psycho?

-Bates Motel

400 What spooky show features “the upside down”?

-Strangers things

500 Whats the name of the Summer camp in Friday the 13th?

-Camp Crystal Lake

Who’s Who

100 Who is the serial killer in the film Halloween?

-Michael Myers

200 What not so scary movie has the characters Roz, Celia, Needleman and Fungus?

-Monsters Inc

300 In a horror movie you should be worried if you encounter a doll with this name.

-Chucky

400 Who wrote the novel “frankenstein”?

-Mary Shelley

500 Who wrote the spooky story “The Raven?

-Edgar Allen Poe

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Cinemagic Haunts

200 In nightmare on elm street what colors are in freddy krugers sweater?

-red and green

400 Name 3 scary movies by Tim Burton.

Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, nightmare before chirstmas, sleepy hollow, corpse bride, dark shadows, coraline, frankenweenie

600 In what horror film did Johnny Depp make his acting debut?

-Friday the 13th

800 Whats the longest horror movie series made?

-Friday the 13th

1000 What scary movie was inspired by a Edvard Munch painting?

-Scream

Legend has it

(history)

200 Give me 3 different names used for Halloween?

– All Hallows Eve, Samhain, All Hallowtide, All Saints Eve, EL Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead)

400 Where did the tradition of wearing masks on Halloween Originate?

• Welsh and Celtic Tradtions

600 Why did wearing masks for Halloween become part of the Halloween tradition?

-Anciently it was believed that the dead could visit the living on Oct. 31st so masks are worn to keep the spirits of the dead from recognizing the living.

800 What famous magician died on Halloween 1926?

-Harry Houdini

1000 What country does Halloween originate from?

-Ireland

Fact check

200 What do the traditional Halloween colors Orange and Black represent?

-Orange represents Fall harvest and black represents the darkness.

400 What were the first jack o lanterns made out of?

-Turnips

600 Halloween is the third biggest party day of the year, What days are 1st and 2nd?

-New Years Eve, Super Bowl Sunday

800 Why do black cats get such a bad rap?

-they were once believed to be witches subordinates who protected their masters dark powers

1000 An ancient folk legend says if you see a spider on halloween it means what?

-Its said to be a spirit of a loved one watching over you.

Haunted tunes

200 “Their creepy and their cooke their all together spooky”

-Addams Family

400 Who aint afraid of no ghosts?

-Ghostbusters

600 What play does the quote “Double double Toil and trouble” come from?

-Macbeth

800 “Theres something very wrong,Whats this? theres people singing songs, the streets are lined with little creatures laughing”?

-Nightmare before Christmas

1000 “You hear the door slam and realize there is no where left to run. You feel the cold hand and wonder if you’ll ever see the sun.”

– Thriller

The number game

200 How many times do you have to say bettlejuice to get him to show up?

-3

400 How many movies (remakes or otherwise) are there in the Friday the 13th franchise?

-12

600 How many bones make up an adult human skeleton?

-206

800 Halloween the Movie was made in 1978 on a low budget in how many days?

-21 days

1000 The Exorcist was nominated for how many Oscars?

-10

Its all about Halloween

200 How much money is made off Halloween candy annually in the US?

-2 billion

400 What percentage of Americans decorate their home for Halloween?

-86%

600 Not just kids dress up for Halloween, what percentage of costumes sold are actually adult costumes?

-62%

800 How much money do haunted houses bring in annually?

-around half a billion dollars

1000 How many children go trick or treating in the US annually?

-35 million

Who said it

200 What movie does this line come from, “I see dead people?”

-Sixth Sense

400 What movies features the line “They’re heee-re…”?

-Poltergist

600 What movie is the quote “We are just three kindly old spinster ladies spending a quiet evening at home…. Sucking the lives out of little children.”

-Hocus Pocus

800 Who said “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

-Morticia Adams

1000 What character says “ We all go a little mad sometimes.”?

-Norman Bates

FINAL JEOPARDY:

Clue:

If you want to get in, you’ll have to know the numbers

Whats the combination to get into the Addams Family safe?

-2,10, 11 (eyes fingers toes)