Types of Ghosts
Halloween History
Spooky Sayings
Scary Movies
The US Presidential Election Process
100
This type of ghost is more easily heard than seen due to its habit of shrieking before attacking victims.
What is a banshee?
100
Crossing these four-legged animals have become symbols for bad luck and Halloween due a Medieval European superstition that witches would transform into them.
What are black cats?
100
Having these specimens "in the closet" means that a person has incriminating secrets hidden in a private area.
What are skeletons?
100
This classic 1931 horror movie is about a doctor who creates a monster made of parts from different corpses. The movie is named after the doctor, not the monster!
What is Frankenstein?
100
Infamously, the popular vote is not what determines who wins the United States president election. Instead, this group of electors determine which presidential candidate "wins" each state's votes.
What is the Electoral College?
200
What makes your furniture go "bump" in the night? Possibly this spirit, which literally translates from German as "noisy ghost".
What is a poltergeist?
200
Halloween was not associated with candy until the 1950s, and at that time, it was this waxy candy that was originally known as "Chicken Feed" that was the most distributed to trick-or-treaters.
What is candy corn?
200
When a past decision or action will cause problems in the future, that past event will "come back to" do this, just like a ghost would.
What is "haunt you/them"?
200
Based on the Stephen King book of the same name, this psychological horror movie about a family with a telepathic boy is most recognizable for its iconic phrases, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and "Here's Johnny!"
What is "The Shining"?
200
Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania are all classified under this term for specific US states that can be reasonably won by either the Democratic or Republican candidate.
What is "swing states"? (or battleground/toss-up/purple states)
300
This vengeful and murderous ghost typically resembles a deceased human shortly before or after their death; even their name makes them sound angry!
What is a wraith?
300
The name "Halloween" is derived from how it is celebrated on the eve of All-hallowmas, which is this Christian day of solemn celebration that takes place on November 1st.
What is All Saints' Day? (All Hallows Days)
300
If your likelihood of success is frighteningly low, your transparent or vaporous chance of success might be described with this phrase. Boo!
What is "a ghost of a chance"?
300
Despite being a PG-rated Disney film, the first scene of this movie literally involves three witches killing a girl by draining her life force and causing her to become a withered husk, then cursing the girl's brother to live eternally as a cat.
What is "Hocus Pocus"?
300
Presidential candidates are selected by their respective political parties based on their performances in two major party contests: caucuses, which start in Iowa, and primaries, which start in this New England state.
What is New Hampshire?
400
Rather than depicting a deceased person, this ghost appears as a body double of a living person.
What is a doppelganger?
400
The first version of Halloween was celebrated 2000 years ago as a New Year's festival for these residents of northwestern Europe up until they were conquered by the Romans; no, not the Boston basketball team!
Who are the Celts? (Celtics)
400
This 1980 slasher film is about an unlucky day for a group of teenage camp counselors as they are murdered in succession by a zombie wearing a ski mask.
What is "Friday the 13th?"
400
Ever since the passage of the 20th Amendment, the presidential inauguration date is this day number in January.
What is 20? (January 20)
500
This type of ghost is known for leading travelers astray by appearing as an orb or thin streak of flickering flame over foggy marshes.
What is a (will-o-)wisp?
500
The first jack-o'-lanterns originated from Ireland, but instead of carving faces onto pumpkins, they carved faces onto these white, fleshy root vegetables with with edible green leaves.
What are turnips?
500
If it's time to come out clean with all your secrets, you would figuratively be dropping your intestines on the floor like with this saying.
What is "spilling your guts"?
500
This 1999 supernatural horror film about three fictional film-making students popularized a type of horror narrative where all of the film's footage was said to be "found" rather than scripted.
What is "The Blair Witch Project"?
500
Each political party selects their presidential nominee at one of these large political congregations, which also includes meetings to decide the party's platform.
What is a national convention?