Reel Frights
Who does Linus Van Pelt wait for every Halloween night?
Who is The Great Pumpkin?
This classic tri-colored candy was originally called "chicken feed".
What is candy corn?
This Massachusetts city is famous for its 1692 witch trials.
What is Salem?
Jeenah has recently joined this creature's ranks and is also forced to avoid the sun at all costs.
What is a vampire?
People who have a fear of spiders is also known as this.
What is arachnophobia?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, this character is known as the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This peanut butter and chocolate treat is consistently ranked as the most popular Halloween candy in America.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
Transylvania, famously associated with Count Dracula, is a real historical region located in this modern-day country.
What is Romania?
These creatures, most commonly from Egypt, often come back to life to seek revenge on their living counterparts.
What is a mummy?
Once fully developed, the human skeleton has this many total bones.
What is 206?
In the movie Hocus Pocus, what was Thackery Binx turned into?
What is a cat?
This fluffy treat was invented by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton, originally called "Fairy Floss".
What is cotton candy?
Halloween is believed to have originated from Samhain (SOW-in or SAH-win), an ancient festival celebrated by this cultural group of people.
Who are the Celts?
A full moon means disaster is in store for Jeenah's night shift, and will also awaken this creature once roughly every 30 days.
What is a werewolf?
While not blind, bats use this handy navigation system to "see" in pitch-black conditions.
What is echolocation?
This is the name of the hotel where Jack Torrence goes mad in Stephen King's The Shining.
What is the Overlook Hotel?
This candy bar--filled with peanuts, caramel, and nouget then covered in chocolate--was named after the creator's beloved horse.
What is Snickers?
Before pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland traditionally carved jack-o'-lanterns out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips?
This chaotic creature translates to "noisy ghost" in German.
What is poltergeist?
What is the name of the hormone that floods your body when you become stressed or scared? Hint: Jeenah sometimes stabs people with this
What is adrenaline or epinephrine?
What is the name of the masked killer in the original 1978 film Halloween?
Who is Michael Myers?
Developed by Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie, this candy with a hard shell was designed to keep chocolate from melting in soldiers' hands during WWII.
What are M&M's?
In Mexico, this altar is created in people's homes during Dia de los Muertos to honor their loved ones who have passed on.
What is an ofrenda?
In Irish folklore, what is the name or type of the spirit whose wail is said to foretell a death?
What is a banshee?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was inspired by this real 18th-century scientific practice of using electricity to stimulate muscle contractions of dead tissue. Hint: it shares a name with a type of steel
What is Galvanism?