Creepy Crawlies
Monsters
Blood & Guts
Trick or Treat
This one is really "gor"-y
100

By weight, the silk this famous venomous spider of the south western US is stronger than steel.  Oh yeah, the female of the species eats the male.  Chew on that...

Black Widow Spider

100

Probably the least scary monster in the television universe.  He had a habit of being terrible about his eating habits, and was out of control around his favorite food.  

That's the way it crumbles...

Cookie Monster

100

Of all the land mammals in the world, this animal has the most, with a whopping 65 gallons pumping through its body.

African Elephant

100

To make this delicious common and popular treat, you need 40 marshmallows, about 1/3 stick of butter, & 6 cups of this breakfast staple cereal...thats it. 

Bon Appetit! 

Rice Krispies

100

noun - a powerfully built great ape with a large head and short neck, found in the forests of central Africa. It is the largest living primate

RIP Harambe

GORilla

200

Known for being a parasite, this animal is responsible for carrying diseases such as babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, anaplasmosis, & Lyme's disease.  Check yourself after every trip to the woods!

Ticks

200

One of the few venomous lizards in the world, the Chiapan beaded lizard also goes by this name, named from the desert from which it resides

Gila monster

200

To describe a job or task that required the worker to give their all, and more, would be to say someone put these 3 human liquids into their work.  

(We'll get the giggles out now, it's not urine...)

Blood, sweat & tears

200

Despite being honest all the other days of the year, Halloween has over 90% of all parents committing this dishonest misdeed to their children.  

Shall they be punished?

Stealing their candy

WATCH YOUR STASH KIDS!!!  DON'T BE A VICTIM!

200

adjective - beautiful; very attractive 

GORgeous

300

Although they are labeled a spider, they only have 2 eyes, and do not produce silk or webs.  The harvestman is an arachnid more closely related to scorpions.  It also has this "lengthy" paternal name

Daddy long legs

300

Kaiju, is a Japanese word describing a large monster that attacks a city or group, (recently made popular by the movie Pacific Rim) but the most famous Kaiju attacked Japan in 1954, all because of radiation.

Godzilla

300

Known for its impeccable sense of smell (1000x better than humans), this dog breed is used for tracking lost or missing people, or if your a prison break movie, used in tracking convicts. It has lots of extra skin around their face to help capture scents.  

Bloodhound

300

According to candystore.com's customer survey, this Halloween candy was voted most unpopular for 3 yEARS in a ROW.  You either like it or you don't, considering its basically sugar & corn syrup & dye with little taste & weird consistency.

Awww, SHUCKS, too bad we cannot make ethanol with it for our gasoline additive.  

candy corn

300

noun - a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics 

cateGORy

400

Scientist Dr. Justin Schmidt is a brave man.  He's created the Schmidt's pain index, a number scale between 1-4 rating the stings of various insects.  

By far, this flightless insect, with an explosive projectile's name, had the most painful sting (4+ on his scale.)  Coyote Peterson would agree, though he had a different winner with the Giant Asian hornet, one Dr. Schmidt never took a sting from.

Bullet Ant

400

Gravedigger and Bigfoot are the 2 best known types of this monster.  You might have seen them before jumping over piles of dirt in their indoor "jam" parties 

Monster Truck

400

Guts was a 1990s kids physical challenge & trivia show that was shown on this kid's television network.  

This network's name is also what a 1930s era jukebox was called because of the price to play music.

Nickelodeon

400

These sister candies are only differentiated by the color of their packaging (one red & one blue) and whether they have nuts or not.  

With a heavy presence of coconut & chocolate, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

Almond Joy's got nuts...

Mounds don't...

400

adjective - characterized by or involving physical strength, effort, or energy 

viGORous

500

Lumbricus terrestris is the scientific name of this creature that is super important to horticulturalists around North America.  Some stores sell these in refrigerators, and say they are from Canada, though it is just a nickname.  It has a name that refers to part of the day, and something that a baby does...

Night crawler

500

This movie monster has had the most movies & television shows made about them.  

Don't Read Any Comics Under Lights Again.  

That's all I am going to say.

Vampires

500

This organ's function is to produce enzymes that break down sugars, fats, and starches. It also helps your digestive system by making hormones. These are chemical messengers that travel through your blood.  It is an organ that you absolutely need for staying alive, and is about 6 inches long.  

Pancreas

500

Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat...

Like this candy, that has a single "compound word" containing 2 separate adjective flavor words as it's name...

Süss säuerlich in German

Sweetarts 

500

noun - a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer 

This also why I am recommended videos about donkeys & RickRolled on YouTube

alGORithm