4-Letter Words
A financial institution that accepts deposits from the public
What is a bank?
It rains diamonds on the rings of this planet
What is Saturn?
A popular fall festival activity the Romans brought to Britain when they invaded
What is apple bobbing?
The irrational fear of spiders
What is arachnophobia?
A campfire treat consisting of one or more toasted marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
What is a s'more?
A hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard
What is a door?
Our neighbouring galaxy, also a Greek mythological figure
What is Andromeda?
Halloween's full Christian name, without the contraction
What is All Hallows' Eve?
A funambulist might walk on this during a circus performance
What is a tight rope?
A bar dessert that requires no baking and is named after a Canadian city in B.C.
What is a nanaimo bar?
The main cause for a sudden influx of 300,000 people in California during the mid-1800's
HINT: Largest mass migration in U.S. history
What is gold? (the California Gold Rush)
NASA's last manned mission to the moon
What is Apollo 17?
The original jack o' lanterns were made from this vegetable
What are turnips?
Chartreuse is a colour between yellow and this
What is green?
The most expensive spice (by weight) in the world
What is saffron?
5 of these are along the border of America and Canada, and they make up 20% of the world's surface freshwater
What is a lake?
The percentage of the universe that is dark matter
27%
The second most popular Halloween candy
What is candy corn?
A juxtaposition of different time periods, such as a trip to the movie theatre during Medieval England
What is an anachronism?
This vitamin is the only one that you won't find in an egg
What is vitamin C?
Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, who rode in a desert for 12 days and followed a star to pay homage to Jesus in a popular biblical story
What is a (are) king(s)?
This southwestern city in the U.S. is famous for a UFO crash that occured in 1947
What is Roswell, New Mexico?
This country had the first written account of children using the phrase “trick or treat” on Halloween
What is Canada?
If you planted the seeds of an acer, this would grow
What is a maple tree?
This popular Mexian dish literally translates to "little donkey"
What is a burrito?