Legends and Lore
Anatomy
Music
Signs and Symbols
Halloween
100
In Arabian myth these spirits are made of air or fire; you probably associate them with magic lamps
Genie
100
It's the most common eye color
Brown
100
It's the term for a piece or passage played by only one performer
Solo
100
The flags of Chile, Cuba & Texas each display a single one of these
Star
100
Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
Gaelic
200
This sorcerer taught the Lady of the Lake Magic, then she imprisoned him in an enchanted thornbush
Merlin
200
The pulse point highest on your body is located here
Temple
200
It's the note found at the approximate center of a piano keyboard
Middle C
200
During the Middle Ages, this 1-horned mythical beast sometimes represented Christ
Unicorn
200
In a forerunner to this Halloween statement, kids would ask for food in exchange for saying prayers for the dead
Trick or treat
300
Depicted in Egyptian sculpture, the criosphinx has the head of a ram & the body of this animal
Lion
300
It's the "right pipe" for food to go down
Esophagus
300
Of the 3 natural male singing voices, it's the highest one
Tenor
300
A white one of these flowers was a symbol of the House of York
Rose
300
In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character
Michael Myers
400
These shrieking beings found in Celtic folklore didn't mourn for obscure people
Banshees
400
These blood cells number fewer than the red cells but more than the white cells
Platelet cells
400
Including over half the musicians, it's the largest section of a symphony orchestra
Strings
400
Sign of the zodiac often represented by the symbol seen here:
Sagittarius
400
What would Halloween be without this novelty song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash"
Monster Mash
500
These gnomelike beings of Scandinavian myth are featured in the maelstrom ride at EPCOT Center
Trolls
500
Latin for "little grape", it moves up when you say "Ahh"
Uvula
500
The cantata & oratorio came into being during this period of music that lasted until around 1750
The Baroque
500
A sun disk was the personal symbol of this Egyptian sun god
Ra
500
This Halloween game may be derived from the inclusion of the goddess Pomona in the festivities
Bobbing for apples