Haunted Halloween
This holiday in October evolved from ancient Celtic traditions.
What is Halloween?
The USC Colliseum will host this international sporting event for it's third time
What are the Olympic Games?
This holiday celebrates Mexico’s victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
This system in your body triggers your fight-or-flight reaction.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Designed for competition, this is a motor vehicle of the Indy or F1 variety.
What is a racecar ?
This trial series in 1692 involved 'spectral evidence' and ended with executions for witchcraft.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This student group protects the Tommy Trojan statue during the rivalry week before the USC–UCLA game.
Who are the Trojan Knights?
This two-day Mexican holiday beginning on November 1st is celebrated by leaving offerings on ofrendas
What is Día de los Muertos or Day of The Dead?
This viral disease may have inspired werewolf myths due to hydrophobia and aggression.
What is rabies?
A legal document that transfers ownership of real property from one party to another.
What is a deed ?
This vegetable was orignally carved into to make Jack O' Lanterns
What is a Turnip or Potatoe?
This real figure was the original mascot of USC.
Who is George Tirebiter?
This ancient civilization built the city of Tenochtitlán, where Mexico City now stands
Who were the Aztecs?
This scary phenomenon occurs when the brain paralyzes the body during vivid dreams.
What is sleep paralysis?
A person or thing that turns in a circle, or a muscle that enables a part of the body to do so.
What is a rotator ?
This Celtic festival marking the end of harvest inspired Halloween.
What is Samhain?
This is the founding year of the University of Southern California.
What is 1880?
This city in Jalisco is the birthplace of both mariachi music and tequila.
Where is Guadalajara?
This is the only animal known to survive in the vacuum of space.
What is a tardigrade or water bear?
A type of flower, or what you might call your mother if you speak British English.
What is a mum ?
These medieval 'witch marks' were scratched into homes to ward off evil.
What are apotropaic marks?
This is the English translation of our Latin motto, 'Palmam qui meruit ferat'
What is 'Let whoever earns the palm bear it'?
This volcano, located near Puebla, is one of Mexico’s most active and is often called “El Popo.”
What is Popocatépetl?
This Italian scientist's experiments with electricity and frog legs inspired Frankenstein.
Who is Luigi Galvani?
If someone is worshipped or regarded as god-like, you may describe them as this.
What is deified ?