Name The Killer
Halloween
Michael Myers
Chuseok in Korea celebrates not only the dead, but also the bountiful blessings from the harvest season and is often compared to this American holiday.
Thanksgiving
This hairy, bi-pedal, ape-like creature is known to wander the deep forests of America's Pacific Northwest.
Bigfoot or Sasquatch
Identify ONE issue that weakens the claim:
“Photosynthesis in plants typically requires sunlight, carbon-dioxide, and water.”
Debatability - it's a fact.
Correctly punctuate the parenthetical expression(s):
You need to be more careful my friends.
You need to be more careful, my friends.
Taste the rainbow.
Skittles
Zoroastrian priests used to leave their dead on top of towers called dahkma in order to be eaten by this flying scavenger.
Vultures
Arthur
Kong
Tut
Kings
A scientist's unorthodox experiment leads to the creation of a sapient creature, stitched together from the pieces of various corpses.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
The vivid depictions of skulls and skeletons featured in Mexico's Dia de los Muertos is actually a remnant of this Mesoamerican civilization.
The Aztecs
This aquatic dinosaur-like animal is supposedly found in the cold waters of the Scottish Highlands.
The Loch Ness Monster or Nessie
Identify ONE issue that weakens the claim:
“The burning of fossil fuels is harmful to the environment.”
Debatability/Defensibility - verges on fact.
Specificity/Focus - how is it harmful?
Correctly punctuate the parenthetical expression(s):
Unlike his brother Jose enjoys speaking in front of large crowds.
Unlike his brother, Jose enjoys speaking in front of large crowds.
Two for me. None for you.
Twix
This ride in Disneyland used real human skeletons when the park originally opened.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Steam
Tug
Sail
Boats
A 19th century English lawyer is sent to Romania to broker a real estate deal for a blood-sucking aristocrat, who eventually falls in love with the lawyer's fiancé.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
During Pchum Ben, a 15-day celebration when the barrier between the living and the dead is thinnest, Cambodians wear this color, symbolic of death and mourning.
White
This beast is known in Central America for killing farmers' livestock, giving it the name that literally translates to "goat-sucker".
Chupacabra
Identify TWO issues that weaken the claim:
“Everyone hates Mondays.”
Focus/Specificity - "Everyone" is a generalization
Debatability/Defensibility - "Hates" is subjective
Correctly punctuate the parenthetical expression(s):
We would however have to skip dessert.
We would, however, have to skip dessert.
Crispity. Crunchity. Peanut-buttery.
Butterfinger
BONUS
What was the name of the Truck Driver in yesterday's riddle?
Mr. Brown
Buck
Baby
Wisdom
Teeth
An experienced priest and his young trainee are invited to a quaint town to rid a young girl from a parasitic demon that's taken over her body.
William Blatty's The Exorcist
IT
Pennywise the Clown
Cow
This is an actual prehistoric shark, known for its gargantuan size, said to still be haunting the ocean depths.
Megaladon
Identify TWO issues that weaken the claim:
"Technology is changing the world."
Focus - what kind of technology?
Specificity - how is it changing the world?
Correctly punctuate the parenthetical expression(s):
The dog frightened by the thunder hid underneath the bed.
The dog, frightened by the thunder, hid underneath the bed.
How many licks does it take to get the center?
One of the most haunted places in the world is Mexico City's Isla de la Munecas, made even more terrifying because hanging from the trees are hundreds of these.
Doll heads
Spider
Hermit
Fiddler
Crabs
A struggling writer takes his family to a secluded hotel in the mountains to serve as caretaker as his sanity slowly unravels.
Stephen King's The Shining
Leatherface
Lanterns
Supposedly responsible for the collapse of a bridge in West Virginia during the 1960's, this human-like creature is known for its large, black wings and glowing-red eyes.
The Mothman
Identify THREE issues that weaken the claim:
“The United States has problems with healthcare, education, foreign policy, and the environment.”
Focus/Specificity - what problems?
Focus/Specificity - too much to cover with "healthcare, education, foreign policy, and the environment"
Debatability/Defensibility - it would be impossible to argue that an entire country does everything perfectly.
Correctly punctuate the parenthetical expression(s):
Please for the love of everything sacred turn in your homework Bennett!Please, for the love of everything sacred, turn in your homework, Bennett!
Makes mouths happy.
Twizzlers
The largest Latin manuscript is the Codex Gigas, a bible supposedly co-written by this figure from Christian doctrine.
Satan or the Devil
St. John
St. Thomas
St. Croix
US Virgin Islands
A young FBI agent is forced to team up with a brilliant but psychopathic psychiatrist known for eating his patients in order to track down a serial killer on the loose.
Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs