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Quiz: How Well Do You Know the 'Halloween' Movies?

Test your knowledge of Michael Myers, Laurie Strode and company

Jayme Deerwester,

AARP

Published October 19, 2022

10 Questions

Halloween Ends, the latest film in the iconic Halloween movie franchise, is currently in theaters and streaming on Peacock. For a real treat, take our tricky trivia quiz to test your movie knowledge.

Quiz: How Well Do You Know the 'Halloween' Movies?

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 "question" : "&quot;Halloween&quot; was the breakout role for which second-generation Hollywood actress?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Mariska Hargitay",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Melanie Griffith",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Carrie Fisher",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Jamie Lee Curtis",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Curtis, the 19-year-old daughter of &quot;Psycho&quot; star Janet Leigh, only had a few TV credits to her name when she was cast as babysitter Laurie Strode. She would star in hit movies like &quot;Trading Places&quot; and &quot;True Lies&quot; before returning to the &quot;Halloween&quot; franchise in the late 1990s.\n",
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 "question" : "Which job didn’t John Carpenter do on the set of the first &quot;Halloween&quot; film?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Director",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Writer",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Editor",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Composer",
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 "explanation" : "Carpenter cowrote, directed and scored the independent film himself.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What was serial killer Michael Myers’ signature wardrobe item?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Hockey mask",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Captain Kirk mask",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Fedora",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Striped sweater",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "The movie was on a tight budget, and production designer Tommy Lee Wallace picked out the Captain Kirk mask at a Hollywood costume shop and modified it himself. William Shatner later confirmed that Myers’ face covering was a copy of a death mask that had been made for &quot;Star Trek: The Original Series.&quot; He was a good sport about it, even wearing one when he took his kids trick-or-treating once.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Who was Myers’ first victim?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "His sister",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "His mother",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "His father",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "His babysitter",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Myers was only 6 years old when he stabbed his teenage sister, Judith, to death on Halloween night in 1963. Why? Instead of taking him trick-or-treating, she invited her boyfriend over to fool around. Michael then spent 15 years in a psychiatric hospital — during which time he never spoke — before he escaped.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What is the name of Myers’ hometown?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Hamilton",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Haddonfield",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Haddock",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Happy Valley",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Myers returned to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, after escaping from the psychiatric hospital.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Myers’ character was often referred to by this nickname, even in IMDB cast listings.\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Captain Killer",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Jumpsuit",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Murderous Mike",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "The Shape",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "The Shape nickname dates back to Carpenter’s original &quot;Halloween&quot; script.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Including &quot;Halloween Ends,&quot; how many films are part of the &quot;Halloween&quot; franchise?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "10",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "13",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "15",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "20",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "&quot;Halloween Ends&quot; is the 13th film following: &quot;Halloween&quot; (1978); &quot;Halloween II&quot; (1981); &quot;Halloween III: Season of the Witch&quot; (1982); &quot;Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers&quot; (1988); &quot;Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers&quot; (1989); &quot;Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers&quot; (1995); &quot;Halloween H20: 20 Years Later&quot; (1998); &quot;Halloween: Resurrection&quot; (2002); &quot;Halloween&quot; (2007); &quot;Halloween II&quot; (2009); &quot;Halloween&quot; (2018) and &quot;Halloween Kills&quot; (2021).\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which trait doesn’t Michael Myers share with Jason Vorhees from the &quot;Friday the 13th&quot; films?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "They both wear masks",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "They’re both seemingly impossible to kill",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "He’s still alive with all his original parts",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "They don’t speak",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Both sport masks. Neither is what you’d call a chatty Kathy. But while Jason has been killed and reborn using the bodies of relatives, Myers is still on his first life.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Speaking of not speaking, what is the one word we’ve heard Myers utter onscreen?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Groot",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Die",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Laurie",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Sister",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "In Rob Zombie’s 2007 reboot, a young Myers says the word “die” after he kills a nurse, and it’s at that point he becomes mute.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which &quot;People&quot; magazine Sexiest Man of the Year alum has appeared in the &quot;Halloween&quot; franchise?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Johnny Depp",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Channing Tatum",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Ryan Reynolds",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Paul Rudd",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Rudd was in 1995’s &quot;The Curse of Michael Myers.&quot; Depp also has some OG horror street cred, having played one of Freddy Krueger’s earliest victims in the first &quot;Nightmare on Elm Street&quot; film.\n",
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Jayme Deerwester is an editor and writer with two decades of experience at USA TODAY, where she covered entertainment, travel, personal finance and technology. When not in front of a computer, she can be found rowing, kayaking or playing with her dog.