Sweet Treats
Tricolored Halloween candy originally called "Chicken Feed."
What is Candy Corn?
These two colors traditionally represent the autumn harvest and the "death" of summer.
What are orange and black?
Stitched together from body parts and brought to life by lightning in a Mary Shelley novel.
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
1939 film featuring the Wicked Witch of the West and an army of flying monkeys.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Crossing paths with a cat of this color is said to bring bad luck.
What is black?
Nougat, caramel, and peanut candy bar named after the Mars family horse.
What is Snickers?
The original root vegetable carved for Jack-o'-lanterns before pumpkins became standard.
What is a turnip?
According to Washington Irving, this equestrian ghost terrorized Sleepy Hollow.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
The "creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky" TV family living at 0001 Cemetery Lane.
Who are The Addams Family?
Pungent herb worn in a wreath around the neck to ward off vampires.
What is garlic?
Peanut butter candy that saw a massive sales spike after luring a movie alien in 1982.
What are Reese's Pieces?
Modern, parking-lot alternative to trick-or-treating that gained popularity in the 1990s.
What is Trunk-or-Treating?
The evil alter ego a mild-mannered London doctor transforms into after drinking a serum.
Who is Mr. Hyde?
1984 comedy featuring a team of parapsychologists catching spirits in New York City.
What is Ghostbusters?
Covering your mouth during this bodily function supposedly prevents your soul from escaping.
What is yawning?
Dark chocolate candy famously advertised as giving the sensation of a "freezing winter breeze."
What is a York Peppermint Pattie?
Mexican multi-day holiday honoring deceased loved ones immediately following Halloween.
What is the Day of the Dead (or Día de los Muertos)?
Carved stone monsters used as decorative waterspouts on Gothic cathedrals.
What are gargoyles?
This "friendly ghost" debuted in 1945 comic books before getting an animated TV show.
Who is Casper?
Floor number frequently skipped in tall U.S. buildings due to widespread superstition.
What is the 13th floor?
Caramel and chocolate candy named because its pieces weren't perfectly round.
What are Milk Duds?
Sticky, red treat accidentally invented to display cinnamon candies in a shop window.
What are candy apples?
Three "Weird Sisters" prophesy the doom of a Scottish king in this Shakespeare tragedy.
What is Macbeth?
1963 Hitchcock thriller where Bodega Bay residents are attacked by flocks of feathered fiends.
What is The Birds?
Carrying the severed foot of this animal is an old folk charm for good luck.
What is a rabbit?
Candy with the 1970s jingle, "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."
What are Almond Joy and Mounds?
Finding a small ring baked in Irish Barmbrack bread predicts this life event.
What is marriage (or a wedding)?
Prehistoric amphibious humanoid discovered in the Amazon in a 1954 3D "creature feature."
What is the Gill-man (or the Creature from the Black Lagoon)?
1933 Universal film starring Claude Rains as a scientist driven mad by a formula that hides his body.
What is The Invisible Man?
Number of years of bad luck superstitiously brought on by breaking a mirror.
What is seven?