Classic Monsters
He only comes out on a full moon and hates silver.
What is a werewolf?
Mexico’s two-day remembrance with ofrendas and marigolds.
What is Día de los Muertos? (Accept: Day of the Dead)
Fog machines often use this solid form of carbon dioxide.
What is dry ice (CO₂)?
“Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.”
What are M&M’s?
Animated family behind the yearly “Treehouse of Horror.”
What is The Simpsons?
Bram Stoker’s famous count who avoids sunlight.
Who is Dracula?
In Ireland and Scotland, people originally carved this instead of pumpkins.
What are turnips?
An owl can rotate its head up to this many degrees.
What is 270°?
Tri-colored Halloween classic invented in the 1880s with a veggie name.
What is candy corn?
Classic villain line: “I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you… ___!”
Who are those meddling kids?
Mary Shelley’s creature is often misnamed after its creator.
What is Frankenstein’s monster?
Tokyo district known for massive Halloween crowds and recent restrictions.
What is Shibuya?
Living things like fireflies and some fungi can “glow in the dark” using this process.
What is bioluminescence?
Canadian bar with a sponge-toffee center.
What is Crunchie?
In Stranger Things, the flower-faced creature named after a D&D monster.
What is the Demogorgon?
Wrapped in bandages and linked to ancient curses.
What is a mummy?
The Celtic festival considered Halloween’s ancient ancestor.
What is Samhain?
Dry ice skips the liquid phase and turns straight from solid to gas. Name that change of state.
What is sublimation?
This candy’s E.T. product placement famously spiked sales after another company said no. Name the candy that benefited.
What are Reese’s Pieces?
2023 Blumhouse movie based on a horror game about haunted animatronics.
What is Five Nights at Freddy’s?
The 1954 amphibious humanoid that inspired “The Shape of Water.”
What is the Creature from the Black Lagoon?
In the Philippines, cemetery visits for Undás fall on these days.
What are All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days?
At a Halloween dance, white shirts glow bright under a blacklight. What’s this effect called?
What is fluorescence?
Outside the U.S., Kit Kat is made and owned by this company (in the U.S., it’s Hershey under license).
What is Nestlé?
The Addams Family’s disembodied hand has this one-word name.
What is Thing?