Classic Monsters
Halloween Around the World
Spooky Science
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Pop Culture: Halloween Edition
100

He only comes out on a full moon and hates silver.

What is a werewolf?

100

Mexico’s two-day remembrance with ofrendas and marigolds.

What is Día de los Muertos? (Accept: Day of the Dead)

100

Fog machines often use this solid form of carbon dioxide.

What is dry ice (CO₂)?

100

“Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.”

What are M&M’s?

100

Animated family behind the yearly “Treehouse of Horror.”

What is The Simpsons?

200

Bram Stoker’s famous count who avoids sunlight.

Who is Dracula?

200

In Ireland and Scotland, people originally carved this instead of pumpkins.

What are turnips?

200

An owl can rotate its head up to this many degrees.

What is 270°?

200

Tri-colored Halloween classic invented in the 1880s with a veggie name.

What is candy corn?

200

Classic villain line: “I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you… ___!”

Who are those meddling kids?

300

Mary Shelley’s creature is often misnamed after its creator.

What is Frankenstein’s monster?

300

Tokyo district known for massive Halloween crowds and recent restrictions.

What is Shibuya?

300

Living things like fireflies and some fungi can “glow in the dark” using this process.

What is bioluminescence?

300

Canadian bar with a sponge-toffee center.

What is Crunchie?

300

In Stranger Things, the flower-faced creature named after a D&D monster.

What is the Demogorgon?

400

Wrapped in bandages and linked to ancient curses.

What is a mummy?

400

The Celtic festival considered Halloween’s ancient ancestor.

What is Samhain?


400

Dry ice skips the liquid phase and turns straight from solid to gas. Name that change of state.

What is sublimation?

400

This candy’s E.T. product placement famously spiked sales after another company said no. Name the candy that benefited.

What are Reese’s Pieces?

400

2023 Blumhouse movie based on a horror game about haunted animatronics.

What is Five Nights at Freddy’s?

500

The 1954 amphibious humanoid that inspired “The Shape of Water.”

What is the Creature from the Black Lagoon?

500

In the Philippines, cemetery visits for Undás fall on these days.

What are All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days?

500

At a Halloween dance, white shirts glow bright under a blacklight. What’s this effect called?

What is fluorescence?

500

Outside the U.S., Kit Kat is made and owned by this company (in the U.S., it’s Hershey under license).

What is Nestlé?

500

The Addams Family’s disembodied hand has this one-word name.

What is Thing?