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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 7:01am ET 11/5/25
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions

If you still don’t know what you’re going to dress up as for Halloween, then you’re amongst the 24% of Americans who wait until the week of to decide!



The jury is still out on what this year’s “it” costume will be, but we took a look at Cosmo’s “The Halloween Costume Everyone Was Wearing the Year You Were Born” article and want to see if you can remember the fads from yesteryear.

POP CULTURE Q1. Carroll Characters: 1951: Trick or treaters decided to go down the rabbit hole adorning their pinafore and black shoes as what Lewis Carroll heroine associated with Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts?



POP CULTURE Q2. Blonde Bombshells: 1959: Stick-on beauty marks must have been flying off the shelf and onto left cheeks as what “Some Like It Hot” blonde bombshell was the most popular muse?



POP CULTURE Q3. Heroine Hair: 1977: It would be another six years before the desert bikini look from the third movie took off, but a white sheet and some cinnamon roll hair curls did the trick to dress as what royal rebel?



POP CULTURE Q4. Paranormal Pugilists: 1984: Brown coveralls, a vacuum cleaner converted to a backpack, and some welder's goggles would have helped you transform into any of four of what paranormal pugilists?



POP CULTURE Q5. Caped Crusaders: 1989: One would think that Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice would have taken top billing in the late ‘80s, however it was what other Keaton role - later played by Kilmer and Clooney - that brought out the caped crusaders?



POP CULTURE Q6. Popular Pins: 1966 and again in 1995: A bold colored shirt with an A-shaped lapel pin would have made you popular originally when what TV show debuted in ‘66 and before “Voyager” blasted off in ‘95?



POP CULTURE Q7. Shonda Shows: 2005: Scrubs have long been a Halloween staple for doctors who don’t have time to change before taking their kids out. But we non-doctors finally caught on, when what Shonda Rhimes show debuted in March?



POP CULTURE Q8. Masked Men: 2006: Letters have long made for fantastic costumes. E from “Entourage.” M or Q from James Bond. Or even Professor X…Remember, remember, 2005 saw a masked man known by what other letter blow up a Halloween that could have easily been celebrated on the 5th of November?



POP CULTURE Q9. Clown Costumes: 2019: Makeup stores would have been a pound foolish if they didn’t stock up in preparation for what clown and literal “it” costume that haunted the storm drains a few years ago?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. COVID Consequences: 2020: People weren’t exactly leaving their houses to go Halloween shopping, so they had to rely on the staples they already had! In preparation for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande taking over the holidays five years later, folks grabbed Libman cleaning tools and kept their social distance as…what?



TIEBREAKER Favorite Festivals: Halloween isn’t for everyone, but it is pretty darn popular. According to a 2024 Instacart survey, what percentage of American adults said that Halloween is their favorite holiday of the year?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 11/5/25