Oh My Gourd!
This summer squash can be prepared using a variety of cooking techniques like being cut with a spiralizer for a low-carbohydrate substitute for pasta or noodles.
What is Zucchini / Zucchino?
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel introduced the prototype of the ambitious researcher, with this doctor obsessed with overstepping the line between life and death.
Who is Dr. Victor Frankenstien?
This is the longest, strongest and heaviest bone in the human body that serves as the primary structural and mechanical pillar of the upper leg.
What is the Femur?
This venomous spider is best known for the bright red hourglass mark on the female's abdomen.
What is the Black Widow?
Michael Jackson was left uncredited on this hit 1984 single, largely due to contractual separation from his own record label at the time.
What is "Somebody's Watching Me"?
The tradition of making these started in Ireland, where people carved faces into turnips, potatoes, and beets to ward of "Stingy Jack", a man who tricked the Devil multiple times and was doomed to wander the Earth.
What are Jack o' Lanterns?
Due to this scientist trying to create a chemical potion to separate his good and evil impulses, he accidentally releases his inner evil self who commits violent acts.
Who is Dr. Jekyll?
This flexible, rubbery tissue cushions the joints between bones and makes up your nose and ears.
What is Cartilage?
This insect best known for its survivability can hold their breath for 40 minutes, about a month without food and up to a week without its head.
What is a Cockroach?
This song, originally written for the Stephen King 1989 film adaptation of the same name, became one of the Ramones' biggest radio hits and was a staple of their concerts during the 1990s.
What is "Pet Sematary"?
The fruit section of this gourd can be fully ripened and dried on the vine to be used as a body scrub in the shower.
What is a Luffa?
Played by Tim Curry, this alien scientist from Transylvania constructs his own ideal artificial muscle man, Rocky.
Who is Dr. Frank-N-Furter?
The human body has 12 pairs of these protecting the heart and lungs attached to the spine at the back.
What are the Ribs?
This 1958 film based on a short story by George Langelaan, follows scientist André Delambre, who invented a matter-transportation experiment.
What is The Fly?
Before becoming the singing voice for Jack Skellington and scoring many Tim Burton films, Danny Elfman started his career as the lead singer of this band.
What is Oingo Boingo?
Invented in 1944, Charles Leggett bred this in Stow, Massachusetts by crossing a pumpkin with a gooseneck squash creating a sweet, bell-shaped winter gourd with smooth tan skin and dense, deep-orange flesh.
What is Butternut Squash?
This 1896 science fiction horror novel by English author H. G. Wells follows a shipwrecked man who winds up on the island home of a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals.
What is The Island of Doctor Moreau?
The stapes is the smallest and lightest bone in the human body located in this body part.
What is the Ear?
Despite their name these insects actually have between 15 and 177 pairs of legs, always possessing an odd number.
What are Centipedes?
This horror actor recorded his famous monologue and eerie laugh in just two takes for the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson.
Who is Vincent Price?
Dried gourds form the resonant bodies or shakers for many traditional instruments, including the maracas, güiro, balafon, kora and this stringed South Asian musical instrument.
What is the Sitar?
Retired German scientist, Dr. Josef Heiter, is obsessed with joining people together in this 2009 horror film.
What is Human Centipede?
Despite its name this is not a bone at all, but rather the ulnar nerve passing against the humerus at the elbow.
What is the Funny Bone?
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause these common insects to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization in the 1954 flick Them!
What are Ants?
Written as a spoof of 1960s dance crazes, this 1962 novelty hit was initially banned in the UK by the BBC because it was deemed "too morbid".
What is "The Monster Mash"?