FOODS
Pumpkins grow this way.
What is on vines?
This is the country of origin for the Day of the Dead.
What is Mexico?
This horror franchise features a jigsaw piece cut out of the skin of its victims.
What is 'Saw'?
This animal was believed to protect witches' powers from negative forces.
The corpse flower gets its name from its ___.
What is smell?
The food item that kids may bob for at Halloween parties.
What are apples?
This European country is most often credited as the official birthplace of modern Halloween traditions.
What is Ireland?
In Beetlejuice, his name is said this number of times to summon him.
What is 3 times?
Triggered by the lunar cycle, this unfortunate soul sheds human form to become a ferocious, bloodthirsty lycanthrope.
What is a Werewolf?
This was the original purpose of a jack o' lantern.
What is warding off evil spirits?
Before Irish and Scottish immigrants arrived in North America and adapted the tradition to native pumpkins, this vegetable was originally carved into spooky lanterns during Samhain/Halloween.
What are turnips OR potatoes?
The classic party game of bobbing for apples on Halloween traces back to a Roman festival honoring Pomona, the goddess of ____.
What is fruit OR trees?
This 2017 Jordan Peele thriller centers on a young Black man visiting his white girlfriend's deeply unsettling family estate.
This piercingly wailing female spirit of Irish myth shrieks outside a home to warn that a family member is about to die.
What is a Banshee?
In 1953, the Rodda Candy Company began mass-producing these marshmallow treats shaped like chicks and ghosts.
What are 'Peeps'?
This is the original name for candy corn when it was invented in the late 1800s.
What is 'Chicken feed?'
The word "Halloween" is actually a shortened contraction of this Christian holiday phrase celebrated on the eve of November 1st.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
In Wes Craven's Scream, this is the name of the fictional California town terrorized by Ghostface.
What is Woodsboro?
This eerie apparition is the exact spectral double or look-alike of a living person, often serving as an ominous omen of approaching misfortune or death.
What is a doppelgänger?
Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein used this natural scientific phenomenon to animate his patchwork creation.
What is electricity OR lightning?
This is the the first wrapped candy in the U.S.
What are 'Tootsie Rolls'?
This 19th-century historical event caused millions of Irish immigrants to flee to North America, massively popularizing Halloween customs in the United States.
What is the Great Irish Famine (Potato Famine) of the 1840s?
Blood used in the famous shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was actually this common grocery item.
What is chocolate syrup?
Large, winged, and bearing massive glowing red eyes, this harbinger of doom was witnessed in Point Pleasant before the collapse of the Silver Bridge.
What is Mothman?
Transylvania, the home of Count Dracula, is a real region located in which modern-day country?
What is Romania?