Horror Hits
This 1993 Disney comedy features three witches brought back to life in Salem, Massachusetts, along with an immortal black cat and a zombie ex-boyfriend.
What is "Hocus Pocus"?
This latte signals the beginning of fall and only appears seasonally at Starbucks.
This building in the capital of England is known for its long and bloody history, serving as a royal palace, prison, and execution site where Anne Boleyn is said to walk the grounds.
What is "The Tower of London"?
This 1978 film by John Carpenter features a silent, masked killer named Michael Meyers and stars Jamie Lee Curtis in a breakout role that has spawned more than 10 sequels.
What is "Halloween"?
This famous Ukrainian semicircular dumpling of unleavened dough stuffed with a delicious filling would be great to eat on Halloween night.
What is "Varenyky"?
This radioactive disaster led to the city of Pripyat being abandoned and made the area and its eerie amusement park a famously spooky site.
What is "Chernobyl"?
This Disney spooky movie also from 1993 is made with stop-motion animation and combines themes of Halloween and Christmas into one story with a few catchy songs sung by a Pumpkin King.
What is "The Nightmare Before Christmas"?
This sweet tricolored candy resembles kernels and was originally called "Chicken Feed" when it was first created in the 1880s.
What is "Candy Corn"?
This network of underground tunnels beneath a large French city holds the remains of over six million people and was originally created to address its overflowing cemeteries.
What are "The Catacombs of Paris"?
This 1982 movie created by Steven Spielberg about helping an alien "phone home" was the costume inspiration of kids with red hoodies and a bike for generations.
What is "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"?
This traditional fall treat was invented in the 1950s as a way to sell more Kraft caramels and coincided with the rise of Halloween as a major holiday for children.
What are "Caramel Apples"?
This state in the USA is home to the Stanley Hotel, inspiration for Stephen King's "The Shining" and a place where guests have reported hearing piano music from empty rooms and seeing apparitions walking down hallways.
What is "Colorado"?
This 2017 thriller is a modern day "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" delivering social commentary on race in America and was a breakout film from comedian turned filmmaker Jordan Peele.
What is "Get Out"?
DAILY DOUBLE: This famous Halloween fruit is something a Ukrainian man would traditionally never want to receive from a woman he was hoping to marry. (Bonus = Why not?)
What is a "pumpkin"? (Bonus = In medieval times, a woman refusing a proposal would give the man who asked a pumpkin. "Less words, more actions!")
This castle in the Lviv region is known as one of the most haunted places in Ukraine where legend says that the ghost of Maria Zhevuska, the wife of Duke Zhevuski, still haunts the castle to this day.
What is "Pidhirsti Castle"?