Classic Monsters
This creature is wrapped from head to toe in white bandages and wakes up after sleeping for thousands of years in a tomb.
What is a mummy?
This small, triangular candy features three layered stripes of white, orange, and yellow.
What is candy corn?
Pumpkins, squash, and gourds belong to this plant family, which is technically a fruit because it contains seeds.
What is a berry?
The term "Jack-o'-lantern" comes from a tradition of carving faces into pumpkins and placing a candle inside. What color is a traditional pumpkin?
What is orange?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, this character is known as the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.
Who is Jack Skellington?
Transylvania is the famous home of this blood-drinking count who can transform into a bat.
Who is Count Dracula?
Named after a famous baseball player's daughter, this peanut-butter-and-chocolate bar shares a name with a famous slugger.
What is a Baby Ruth?
Nocturnal mammals that fly using echolocation and are closely associated with vampire folklore.
What are bats?
Halloween is celebrated every year on this exact date.
What is October 31st?
This spooky, kooky television and movie family includes members named Wednesday, Pugsley, Morticia, and Thing.
Who are the Addams Family?
According to legend, this creature transforms from a human into a giant wolf during a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
This lollipop with a chewy, chocolatey center asks the famous question: "How many licks does it take to get to the center?"
What is a Tootsie Pop?
This solid form of carbon dioxide creates a thick, foggy smoke effect when placed into warm water for Halloween decorations.
What is dry ice?
This classic party game involves trying to catch a floating fruit out of a bucket of water using only your teeth.
What is bobbing for apples?
Author R.L. Stine wrote this famous series of children's horror novels featuring titles like Night of the Living Dummy.
What is Goosebumps?
Created in a laboratory by a mad doctor, this monster is famous for the green tint on his skin and the bolts in his neck.
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
According to annual sales and surveys, this chocolate and peanut butter treat is consistently ranked as the most popular Halloween candy in the U.S.
What is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?
This eight-legged arachnid uses spinnerets to produce strong silk threads to catch its prey.
What is a spider?
Black cats and this flying broomstick-rider are classic symbols often paired together in Halloween decorations.
What is a witch?
In the movie Ghostbusters, this giant, soft white mascot terrorizes New York City at the climax of the film.
Who is the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?
Originating in Greek mythology, this snake-haired monster could turn anyone who looked into her eyes into solid stone.
Who is Medusa?
Before chocolate and packaged candy took over in the 1950s, kids often received this fresh fruit in their trick-or-treat bags.
What is an apple?
The glowing light produced naturally by fireflies, deep-sea creatures, and some fungi is known by this scientific term.
What is bioluminescence?
People originally started wearing masks and costumes on Halloween so that these floating spirits wouldn't recognize them.
What are ghosts (or evil spirits)?
In Washington Irving's classic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is chased by this terrifying spectral rider.
Who is the Headless Horseman?