Sample pickA bat's wing is a thin skin stretched over very long what?
Halloween Trivia Questions for Kids, Turnip Lanterns to Candy Corn: how it works
Start with the question on the card: read it out, tap the answer the children shout, then press Check answer for the right one and a sentence on why. These 80 Halloween trivia questions for kids are about real pumpkins, bats, spiders and owls, and about where trick-or-treating came from. Nothing in them is scary.
Six topics, none of them scary
Press Topic to stay with one of the six. The animals are asked about as real animals, so a child learns that a bat's wing is skin stretched over its finger bones and that a black cat means good luck in Britain and Japan. No ghosts, monsters or graveyards appear anywhere in the pack.
A class party, a scored round or a printed sheet
At a class party stay in Practice mode: the answer and its reason appear when you press Check answer, and misses wait under Missed. For a scored round press Exam mode, then Start the exam: 20 questions, scored topic by topic. For children waiting for dusk, Print question sheet gives 20 questions with lettered choices and a name and score line, and Print answer key repeats each reason.
Tips
Untick Shuffle questions and choices and each topic runs from easiest to hardest. Pumpkins then open on what a carved pumpkin with a light inside is called.
With five-year-olds in the room, start on pumpkins or harvest customs. The history topic holds the most hard questions.
Draw a paper pumpkin for each team and color in one segment per right answer, so nobody needs candy to keep score.
Questions and answers
What do the Halloween questions cover?
Six topics: pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns (11 questions), bats (11), spiders and webs (14), owls, cats and crows (15), Halloween history and trick-or-treating (15) and harvest customs (14). Some are quick, such as which three colors make up candy corn. Others stretch an older child, such as the country where the words trick or treat were first recorded.
Are any of the questions scary?
No. Bats, spiders, owls and black cats appear as real animals: what they eat, how they fly, how a web is built. The history topic covers turnip lanterns, guising, soul cakes and apple bobbing, and its one Day of the Dead question is about marigolds and remembering family. Nothing mentions ghosts, monsters or blood.
How were the answers checked?
Each fact was checked in September 2026 against the Wikipedia article linked under its answer, by reading the sentence that states it. Facts that change were left out, such as the record weight of a giant pumpkin and the number of bat species. A few questions were dropped because the article did not state the fact plainly.
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Before pumpkins, which vegetable did people in Ireland and Britain carve into Halloween lanterns?Wikipedia: Jack-o'-lantern
Botanists count a pumpkin as a special kind of berry. What is that kind of berry called?Wikipedia: Cucurbita
In the autumn sport of pumpkin chucking, what do teams try to do?Wikipedia: Punkin chunkin
The name jack-o'-lantern first belonged to which strange sight?Wikipedia: Jack-o'-lantern
Pumpkins belong to the same plant family as which of these?Wikipedia: Cucurbitaceae
Pumpkins grow on which kind of plant?Wikipedia: Pumpkin
Roasted pumpkin seeds are a popular snack. What is their Spanish name?Wikipedia: Pumpkin seed
What is a carved pumpkin with a light inside it called?Wikipedia: Jack-o'-lantern
Which insects usually pollinate pumpkin flowers?Wikipedia: Pumpkin
Wild pumpkins and their squash relatives first came from which part of the world?Wikipedia: Pumpkin
The word pumpkin is most often used for squash of which color?Wikipedia: Pumpkin
Bats 11
A bat's wing is a thin skin stretched over very long what?Wikipedia: Bat
Bats belong to a group called Chiroptera. What do the Greek words in that name mean?Wikipedia: Bat
The droppings of bats and seabirds make a rich fertilizer for crops. What is it called?Wikipedia: Guano
Flowers that are visited by nectar-feeding bats tend to open at what time?Wikipedia: Bat
How do bats rest when they are not flying?Wikipedia: Bat
How do bats that feed on fruit and nectar help plants?Wikipedia: Bat
Only one group of mammals has more kinds in it than the bats. Which group?Wikipedia: Bat
Some big fruit bats have dog-like faces. What are they often called?Wikipedia: Megabat
What do many kinds of bat eat?Wikipedia: Bat
Where do many bats spend the day?Wikipedia: Bat
The world's smallest bat is named after which insect?Wikipedia: Kitti's hog-nosed bat
Spiders and webs 14
How many eyes do most spiders have?Wikipedia: Spider
How many main parts does a spider's body have?Wikipedia: Spider
Some young spiders travel through the air by letting the wind catch a thread of silk. What is this called?Wikipedia: Ballooning (spider)
What are the silk-spinning parts on a spider's abdomen called?Wikipedia: Spider
What do most spiders eat?Wikipedia: Spider
What do spiders make their webs from?Wikipedia: Spider web
What does a mother spider wrap her eggs in?Wikipedia: Spider
What is a dusty spider web that looks abandoned often called?Wikipedia: Spider web
What is a strong fear of spiders called?Wikipedia: Arachnophobia
Which is the only continent with no spiders?Wikipedia: Spider
Which kind of spider web is built as a spiral?Wikipedia: Spider web
Which large, often hairy spiders have become popular as pets?Wikipedia: Tarantula
Which of these do insects have that spiders do not?Wikipedia: Spider
Which spiders make agile leaps when they hunt and have some of the best eyesight of any small creature?Wikipedia: Jumping spider
Owls, cats and crows 15
A cat can pull its claws back into its paws. What is the word for claws like that?Wikipedia: Cat
Crows and their relatives are well known for which talent?Wikipedia: Corvidae
Crows belong to the same bird family as which of these?Wikipedia: Corvidae
In Britain and in Japan, what is a black cat traditionally said to bring?Wikipedia: Black cat
Owls and some other birds cough up the parts of a meal they cannot digest. What is the lump called?Wikipedia: Pellet (ornithology)
What are the sharp claws of an owl called?Wikipedia: Owl
What do cats use their whiskers for?Wikipedia: Cat
What do most owls hunt?Wikipedia: Owl
What is a group of owls called?Wikipedia: Owl
What is a male cat called?Wikipedia: Cat
Which is the largest bird in the crow family?Wikipedia: Common raven
Which owls have a heart-shaped face?Wikipedia: Barn owl
Which way do an owl's eyes face?Wikipedia: Owl
Why can most owls fly almost without a sound?Wikipedia: Owl
Why do a cat's eyes seem to shine when a light catches them at night?Wikipedia: Cat
Halloween history and trick-or-treating 15
Barmbrack, an Irish Halloween fruit loaf, traditionally has what baked inside it?Wikipedia: Barmbrack
In apple bobbing, players try to catch floating apples using only what?Wikipedia: Apple bobbing
In Scotland and Ireland, what are children traditionally expected to do before they are given a treat?Wikipedia: Trick-or-treating
In Scotland and Ireland, what is the custom of going from door to door in costume called?Wikipedia: Trick-or-treating
In the old custom of souling, what did children ask for as they went from door to door?Wikipedia: Soul cake
The old festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest and the start of which season?Wikipedia: Samhain
On which date is Halloween celebrated?Wikipedia: Halloween
People from which two countries carried many Halloween customs to North America in the 1800s?Wikipedia: Halloween
What do trick-or-treaters traditionally wear?Wikipedia: Trick-or-treating
Which big outdoor fires were lit at the old Samhain festival?Wikipedia: Samhain
Which Christian feast day falls on November 1, the day after Halloween?Wikipedia: All Saints' Day
Which Mexican holiday on November 1 and 2 remembers loved ones with home altars and marigold flowers?Wikipedia: Day of the Dead
Which older name is Halloween also known by?Wikipedia: Halloween
Which three colors make up a traditional piece of candy corn?Wikipedia: Candy corn
The words "trick or treat" were first recorded in 1917 in which country?Wikipedia: Trick-or-treating
Harvest customs 14
A puzzle of paths cut through a field of corn is called what?Wikipedia: Corn maze
A ride around a farm in a wagon loaded with hay or straw is called what?Wikipedia: Hayride
Grass that is cut, dried and stored to feed animals is called what?Wikipedia: Hay
In the United Kingdom, what is a corn maze known as?Wikipedia: Corn maze
In the United States, what is the unfiltered drink made from apples called?Wikipedia: Apple cider
Straw is the dry stalks left over from which crops?Wikipedia: Straw
What are the leafy layers wrapped around an ear of corn called?Wikipedia: Maize
What is a candy apple?Wikipedia: Candy apple
What is a farm building that stores grain or animal feed in bulk called?Wikipedia: Silo
What is a piece of land planted with fruit or nut trees called?Wikipedia: Orchard
What is the figure in old clothes that farmers put in a field to keep birds off the crops?Wikipedia: Scarecrow
What is the gathering of ripe crops from the fields called?Wikipedia: Harvest
Which big farm machine cuts a grain crop and separates the grain in a single pass?Wikipedia: Combine harvester
Which hard-shelled relatives of the pumpkin have long been dried and made into tools and musical instruments?Wikipedia: Gourd
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another list. Every question, wrong choice and explanation is our own wording. The pack is meant for children, so nothing in it is frightening: it asks about pumpkins, bats, spiders, owls, cats and crows as real plants and animals, about where Halloween customs come from, and about the autumn harvest. There are no ghosts, monsters, graveyards, blood or horror stories. Each fact was checked on 2026-09-19 against the English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org) named and linked beside the question: the article text was fetched on 2026-09-18 or 2026-09-19, and the sentence that states the fact was read before the question was kept. Every extra claim in an explanation was checked the same way. Questions were dropped or changed when the article did not state the fact plainly: what the Greek word behind pumpkin means, what a baby owl is called, what a scarecrow is stuffed with, where barn owls nest, whether a raven is bigger than a crow (the question now asks for the largest bird in the crow family, as the Common raven article states), and the claim that an apple floats because part of it is air (the article says apples are less dense than water). Left out on purpose because they change: the record weight of a giant pumpkin, which state cans the most pumpkins, the number of bat species, and the size of the largest bat colony. Also left out: living people, and film, TV, brand and league names. Questions that repeated a fact already asked in the site's kids, first grade, third grade or science packs were cut. Levels are an editor's judgment for children of about 6 to 11: easy suits the youngest, medium is for most of the group, hard is a stretch. Licence: own work