Halloween 101
This orange vegetable is traditionally carved into a jack-o’-lantern.
What is a pumpkin?
According to legend, this monster transforms during a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
This candy consists of peanut butter surrounded by chocolate and is sold in distinctive orange packaging around Halloween.
What are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?
Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King in this movie.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This eight-legged creature is famous for making webs.
What is a spider?
This phrase is traditionally shouted when children knock on doors on Halloween.
What is “Trick or treat”?
This creature supposedly drinks blood and traditionally sleeps in a coffin.
What is a vampire?
These colorful fruit-flavored candies use the slogan “Taste the Rainbow.”
What are Skittles?
Three witches named Winifred, Mary and Sarah Sanderson appear in this Halloween movie.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.
What is a bat?
Halloween is celebrated every year on this date
What is October 31?
This legendary creature is usually depicted as having the body of a human wrapped in strips of cloth.
What is a mummy?
This triangular Halloween candy traditionally has white, orange and yellow layers.
What is candy corn?
In Beetlejuice, saying this character’s name this many times summons him.
What is three?
A group of crows is traditionally called this ominous-sounding word.
What is a murder?
Before pumpkins became common for jack-o’-lanterns, people in Ireland and Britain carved vegetables such as these.
What are turnips?
Mary Shelley created this famous scientist whose experiment brings a creature to life.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
The candy bar Snickers contains chocolate, caramel, peanuts and this fluffy confection.
What is nougat?
This 1984 movie features a team that uses proton packs to capture supernatural creatures.
What is Ghostbusters?
Unlike most birds, many species of this nocturnal predator can fly almost silently because of specialized feathers.
What is an owl?
Halloween developed partly from traditions associated with this ancient Celtic festival.
What is Samhain?
In Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, this frightening rider is missing something important.
What is his head? / Who is the Headless Horseman?
This candy bar was named after the Mars family’s favorite horse rather than the sound of laughter its name suggests.
What is Snickers?
In the 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, this immortal black cat is named this.
Who is Thackery Binx/Binx?
Vampire bats primarily live on this pair of continents.
What are North and South America/the Americas?