🎬 Scary Screen
🌍 Halloween Around the World
🦇 Spooky Science
🍬 Candy Corner
🎃 Monster Mash
100
In this 1975 blockbuster, a great white shark terrorizes the fictional town of Amity Island.
What is Jaws?
100
Mexico’s November 1–2 celebration honouring loved ones who have died
What is Día de los Muertos?
100
These are the only mammals capable of true flight
What are bats?
100
This chocolate bar was named after the Mars family’s favourite horse
What is Snickers?
100
Wrapped in linen, this undead figure rises from an Egyptian tomb
What is a mummy?
200
Sarah Jessica Parker plays one of three witch sisters in this 1993 Disney film
What is Hocus Pocus?
200
The first Irish jack-o’-lanterns were carved from this root vegetable
What is a turnip?
200
Botanically, a pumpkin is classified as this, not a vegetable
What is a fruit?
200
In the U.S., the chalky tablet candy Canadians call Rockets goes by this name
What are Smarties?
200
Silver bullets are the traditional way to stop this howling creature
What is a werewolf?
300
This 1999 low-budget found-footage hit was shot in the Maryland woods
What is The Blair Witch Project?
300
The name “Halloween” is a shortened form of this phrase for the night before All Saints’ Day
What is All Hallows’ Eve?
300
Fireflies and some glow-in-the-dark mushrooms produce light through this process
What is bioluminescence?
300
Candy corn was first marketed under this farm-themed name
What is Chicken Feed?
300
Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula hails from this region of Romania
What is Transylvania?
400
Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade was inspired by the opening scene of this 2015 James Bond film
What is Spectre?
400
Halloween traces its roots to this ancient Celtic festival
What is Samhain?
400
This anticoagulant protein in vampire bat saliva is named after a famous count
What is draculin?
400
Ganong of St. Stephen, N.B., makes these pink cinnamon candies with a spooky-sounding name
What are Chicken Bones?
400
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein during a rainy 1816 summer beside this Swiss lake
What is Lake Geneva?
500
This 1922 German silent film was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula
What is Nosferatu?
500
In Scotland, kids dressing up and performing for treats is traditionally called this
What is guising?
500
This “zombie” fungus takes over the bodies of carpenter ants
What is Cordyceps (Ophiocordyceps)?
500
The two Ms in M&M’s stand for these two men’s surnames
What are Mars and Murrie?
500
In Jewish folklore, this clay figure is brought to life with a sacred word
What is a golem?