Popular Halloween Costumes
Batman; Wonder Woman; Spider-Man; Captain Marvel
What are superheroes?
The largest of these ever measured weighed in at over 2,800 pounds.
What are pumpkins?
Since 1992, this color of ribbon has been widely recognized as a symbol of breast cancer awareness.
What is pink?
In a crimson cape, this little girl is accosted by a wolf on her way through the forest to her sick grandmother's house.
Who is Little Red Riding Hood?
These spectors are known to stay or return to the land of the living, sometimes with unfinished business.
What is a ghost?
During autumn, monarch butterflies migrate from the United States to this warmer country to the south.
What is Mexico?
Cow; Chicken; Sheep; Duck
What are barnyard animals?
("animals" also accepted)
Grown primarily in the Pacific Northwest, this bell-shaped fruit belongs to the rose family.
What are pears?
This group of women have a 38% higher breast cancer mortality rate than white women.
Who are black women?
With help from this small man, a young girl spins straw into gold and becomes queen. In exchange, she must guess this name of his or give up her firstborn child.
Who is Rumpelstiltskin?
Whether cursed or bitten, this shape-shifting creature is also known as a lycanthrope.
What is a werewolf?
September 23rd marks this day, the officially start of fall when the length of day and night are nearly equal.
What is the autumnal equinox?
Barbie and Ken; Salt and Pepper; Mickey and Minnie Mouse
What is a couple's costume?
This tuber gets it's most well-known orange coloring from beta-carotene.
What are sweet potatoes?
This medical imaging test is the most effective screening tool used to detect breast cancer in women.
What is a mammography?
These two siblings, lost in the forest, follow a trail to a house built of cake and sweets. They mush escape the witch's cabin before she eats them.
Who are Hansel and Gretel?
Famously dancing in Michael Jackson's Thriller music video, these creatures are the animated undead.
What are zombies?
Shades of red and purple leaves are colored by anthocyanin pigments formed by this sweet substance trapped in each leaf.
What is sugar?
The Sanderson Sisters; Wicked of the West; Ursula; Glinda, the Good; Samantha Stephens
What are witches?
It takes approximately 200 cranberries to produce one of these.
What is a can of cranberry sauce?
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women behind what other type of cancer?
What are skin cancers?
In the Grimm version of this fairytale, the famous slipper is gold, not glass.
What is Cinderella?
This early 19th century, 8-foot tall literary character was famously portrayed by Boris Karloff in a series of 1930s films.
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
(Frankenstein also accepted)
The full moon closest to the autumnal equinox is known as this.
What is the Harvest Moon?
French toast; Deviled egg; Ceiling fan; Smarty pants
What are puns OR wordplay?
This cool season dark green leafy vegetable, part of the Crucifer family, gets sweeter as the weather turns frosty.
What is kale?
This group of specially trained women are 40% more likely to develop breast cancer than civilians.
Who are women in the military?
This man arrives to town and by playing a musical instrument lures all the mice from homes to their death in the river. Unfortunately, scorned by the townspeople, this man then lured the town's children away with his music.
Who is the Pied Piper?
This hooded figure of death emerged out of Europe in the 14th century, during the massive suffering and population loss of the Black Death.
Who is the grim reaper?
The natural transition to autumn is said to coincide with this goddess' descent to the underworld to join her husband Hades. She is known in Greek mythology as the Queen of the Underworld and Demeter's daughter.
Who is Persephone?