Name The Killer
Days of the Dead
Cryptids
Modes of Development
Candy Slogans
Creepy Facts
Tribond
From Book to Film
100

Halloween

Michael Myers

100

Chuseok in Korea celebrates not only the dead, but also the bountiful blessings from the harvest season and is often compared to this American holiday.

Thanksgiving

100

This hairy, bi-pedal, ape-like creature is known to wander the deep forests of America's Pacific Northwest.

Bigfoot or Sasquatch

100

Using consecutive claims to tell the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Narration

100

Taste the rainbow.

Skittles

100

Zoroastrian priests used to leave their dead on top of towers called dahkma in order to be eaten by this flying scavenger.

Vultures

100

Arthur
Kong
Tut

Kings

100

A scientist's unorthodox experiment leads to the creation of a sapient creature, stitched together from the pieces of various corpses.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

200

Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees

200

The vivid depictions of skulls and skeletons featured in Mexico's Dia de los Muertos is actually a remnant of this Mesoamerican civilization.

The Aztecs

200

This aquatic dinosaur-like animal is supposedly found in the cold waters of the Scottish Highlands.

The Loch Ness Monster or Nessie

200

Using different claims to highlight the differences and similarities between the two or more ideas.

Comparison OR Compare/Contrast

200

Two for me. None for you.

Twix

200

This ride in Disneyland used real human skeletons when the park originally opened.

Pirates of the Caribbean

200

Steam
Tug
Sail

Boats

200

A 19th century English lawyer is sent to Romania to broker a real estate deal for a blood-sucking aristocrat, who eventually falls in love with the lawyer's fiancé.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

300

Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger

300

During Pchum Ben, a 15-day celebration when the barrier between the living and the dead is thinnest, Cambodians wear this color, symbolic of death and mourning.

White

300

This beast is known in Central America for killing farmers' livestock, giving it the name that literally translates to "goat-sucker".

Chupacabra

300

Using one claim to identify the results of an action that was described in an earlier claim.

Cause and Effect

300

Crispity. Crunchity. Peanut-buttery.

Butterfinger

300

Question 8 from last week's MCQ Jam:
Ironically, modern aircraft engines—designed to burn more efficiently and so emit less CO2—actually create more contrails.

This sentence points out:

(A) an unexpected consequence of a technological improvement

(B) an innovative strategy for evaluating the effects of contrails

(C) an elegant design solution for a puzzling problem

(D) the consequences of failing to follow a carefully designed plan


(A) an unexpected consequence of a technological improvement

300

Buck
Baby
Wisdom

Teeth

300

An experienced priest and his young trainee are invited to a quaint town to rid a young girl from a parasitic demon that's taken over her body.

William Blatty's The Exorcist

400

IT

Pennywise the Clown

400
During the Nepalese holiday of Gia Jatra, children will often dress as this animal - sacred to the Hindu religion - as it is supposed to lead spirits to the afterlife.

Cow

400

This is an actual prehistoric shark, known for its gargantuan size, said to still be haunting the ocean depths.

Megaladon

400

Using one claim to propose why your thesis would resolve the exigence identified in a previous claim.

Problem/Solution

400

How many licks does it take to get the center?

Tootsie Pop
400

One of the most haunted places in the world is Mexico City's Isla de la Munecas, made even more terrifying because hanging from the trees are hundreds of these.

Doll heads

400

Spider
Hermit
Fiddler

Crabs

400

A struggling writer takes his family to a secluded hotel in the mountains to serve as caretaker as his sanity slowly unravels.

Stephen King's The Shining

500
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Leatherface

500
During Obon, Japan's celebration of the dead, participants honor their deceased ancestors by sending toro nagashi - also known as this - down the river.

Lanterns

500

Supposedly responsible for the collapse of a bridge in West Virginia during the 1960's, this human-like creature is known for its large, black wings and glowing-red eyes.

The Mothman

500

Using consecutive claims to provide multiple examples of why your thesis is true.

Exemplification

500

Makes mouths happy.

Twizzlers

500

The largest Latin manuscript is the Codex Gigas, a bible supposedly co-written by this figure from Christian doctrine.

Satan or the Devil

500

St. John
St. Thomas
St. Croix

US Virgin Islands

500

A young FBI agent is forced to team up with a brilliant but psychopathic psychiatrist known for eating his patients in order to track down a serial killer on the loose.

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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