Halloween
Halloween is celebrated on this date every year.
What is 31 October?
According to legends, this creature drinks blood and dislikes sunlight.
What is a vampire?
100 points: Mary Shelley wrote this famous novel about a scientist and his creation.
What is Frankenstein?
This adjective describes a place where ghosts are believed to appear.
What is haunted?
An animal that is active at night is described by this word.
What is nocturnal?
Children say these three words when they ask for sweets on Halloween.
What is trick or treat?
This person changes into a wolf during a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
Bram Stoker created this famous vampire.
Who is Count Dracula?
This word means strange, frightening and mysterious.
What is eerie?
This flying mammal uses sound to find its way in the dark.
What is a bat?
It is the carved pumpkin that people use as decoration during Halloween.
What is a Jack-o'-lantern?
This is said to be the spirit of a dead person.
What is a ghost?
This American writer wrote The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the nervous excitement you feel while waiting to discover what will happen.
What is suspense?
Bats use this special ability to locate objects using sound.
What is echolocation?
This ancient Celtic festival influenced modern Halloween traditions.
What is Samhain?
This ancient Egyptian body is wrapped in cloth.
What is a mummy?
The Headless Horseman appears in this famous story by Washington Irving.
What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
This adjective describes someone or something that seems evil or dangerous.
What is sinister?
This bird can turn its head much farther than a human and is famous for hunting at night.
What is an owl?
The name Halloween comes from this longer expression.
What is All Hallows’ Eve?
It is a "noisy ghost" or "knocking spirit," derived from the German words poltern and geist.
What is a Poltergeist?
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about Dr Jekyll and this frightening second personality.
Who is Mr Hyde?
This adjective describes a sign that something bad may happen soon.
What is ominous?
This natural ability allows some living organisms to produce their own light.
What is bioluminescence?