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100

Keep vampires away by heavily seasoning your Halloween dishes with this pungent bulb.

What is garlic?
100

Spilling salt or walking under a ladder are bad omens, but breaking one of these is said to bring seven years of bad luck.

What is a mirror?

100

Located in Massachusetts, this historic city capitalizes on its dark 1692 history by calling itself "The Witch City" and hosting massive real-world festivals every October.

What is Salem?

100

Long before pumpkins were used, people in the British Isles carved scary faces into these root vegetables to ward off spirits.

What are turnips?

200

This large orange gourd is technically a fruit, and its seeds are often roasted with salt for a crunchy fall snack.

What is a pumpkin?

200

o avoid tempting fate or "jinxing" yourself after making a positive statement, you should perform this physical action.

What is knocking on wood?

200

A series of real-life paranormal investigations at a home in Rhode Island inspired this massive 2013 horror film franchise.

What is Conjuring?

200

What country was Count Dracula born in ?

Transylvania

300

This triangular, peanut butter-filled chocolate cup consistently ranks as America's favorite Halloween candy.

What is Reese's?


300

This specific calendar date occurs at least once a year and is so widely feared that it inspired a 12-movie horror franchise.

What is Friday the 13th?

300

This famous island in San Francisco Bay, once a maximum-security prison, is frequently cited as one of the most haunted places in America.

What is Alcatraz?

300

What city in Massachusetts is most well known for witchcraft?

What is Salem?

400

This item was originally called "Chicken Feed" when it was invented in the late 1880s.

What is candy corn?

400

Sailors believe it is terrible luck to kill this large, gliding seabird, a superstition made famous in the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

What is albatross?

400

This ill-fated 1846 pioneer group became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains, giving rise to chilling historical ghost stories.

What is the Donner Party?

400

This fictional town is the setting of The Vampire Diaries and a popular spot for supernatural happenings.

What is Mystic Falls?

500

Red food coloring or a puree of these tart red berries is commonly used to create fake edible blood for desserts.

What is raspberries?

500

In theater culture, saying the title of this Shakespearean "Bard's Play" inside a theater is cursed; actors call it this 2-word geographic name instead.

What is "The Scottish Play" or Macbeth?

500

The character of Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was loosely based on this real-life Wisconsin serial killer.

What is Ed Gein?

500

This iconic 1982 music video featured a zombie dance routine choreographed by Michael Peters and was the first music video ever inducted into the National Film Registry.

What is "Thriller"?

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