spooky monsters
This Romanian count is famous for saying, "I never drink... wine"
Count Dracula
The phrase "All Hallows' Eve" (meaning the night before All Hallows' Day) eventually morphed into this single modern word
Halloween
This bright citrus color was named directly after the fruit
orange
This coconut and almond bar shares its name with a feeling of pure happiness or joy.
Almond Joy
In 2024, a TikTok trend involving a miniature, hyper-specific household organizational item from this Swedish retailer took over the internet
IKEA
Boris Karloff wrapped himself in bandages to play this ancient Egyptian monster
Mummy
This classic party game, where players try to catch floating fruit with their teeth, actually originated as a Roman rite honoring the goddess Pomona
Bobbing for apples
This term refers to a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary
a dialect
This interactive pop-culture lollipop features a plastic dispenser shaped like cartoon characters
PEZ dispensers
This 1999 smash-hit R&B anthem by TLC spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, popularized a slang term for a loafer, and was co-written by Kandi Burruss
No scrubs
This tall, faceless entity in a black suit originated as an internet creepypasta before inspiring a 2018 horror film
Slender Man
In European folklore, witches were believed to transform themselves into this specific animal to spy on people unnoticed
Black cat
These are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like "to," "too," and "two."
homophones
"How many licks does it take to get to the center of" this candy?
Tootsie pop
Known today as a massive hip-hop titan, this Canadian artist got his early start playing a character named Jimmy Brooks on the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation
Drake
This terrifying creature from the Alien franchise features concentrated acid for blood and a secondary set of jaws
Xenomorph
According to Irish folklore, the original "Jack" of the Jack-o'-lantern was cursed to wander the earth forever with only a burning coal inside one of these root vegetables.
Turnip
This behavior occurs when a bilingual speaker alternates between two or more languages or language varieties in a single conversation
code-switching
Invented during WWII, this candy was designed so soldiers could carry chocolate without it melting in their hands
M&Ms
If you take the sum of the title numbers from every film in the original Ocean's heist franchise directed by Steven Soderbergh, you will get this exact total
36 (11+12+13)
In Scooby-Doo lore, this glowing, seaweed-draped phantom terrorized an old marine factory before being unmasked as smuggler Mr. Carswell
The Creeper
This specific Canadian province is widely credited with hosting the first recorded instance of the actual phrase "trick or treat" in print, appearing in a 1927 newspaper article
Alberta
This specific neurological condition, often caused by damage to Left Temporal lobe tissue, results in fluent but completely nonsensical speech
Wernicke's aphasia
This chocolate bar's name is inspired by the fictional collection of stories The Arabian Nights
100 grand
This tech billionaire and his former partner Grimes sparked massive internet confusion in 2020 by naming their newborn son this highly unusual, alphanumeric string
X Æ A-12