October 31
On October 31, 2011, the world's population exceeded this number for the first time ever.
7 billion
X, Jason Lives, Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th
Like most good things, Halloween originated with this ancient people
Celts
The southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes.
Lake Erie
The unseen deity to whom Linus Van Pelt writes a letter and who he insists will come next year.
The Great Pumpkin
The lowest possible six figure salary
100 Grand
The Protestant Reformation begins as this famous agitator posts his 95 Theses on the door of a German church in 1517.
Martin Luther
Dream Warriors, Dream Master, The Dream Child
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Instead of pumpkins, Celts originally made jack-o-lanterns out of these root vegetables.
Turnips
Also known as bhut jolokia, it clocks in at just over one million Scoville units.
Ghost pepper
His many professions include doctor, professor, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, metaphysician, and of course, vampire hunter.
Van Helsing
A barred spiral galaxy with a D25 isophotal diameter estimate at 26.8 +/- 1.1 kiloparsecs
Milky Way
In the scariest event to ever happen on October 31, this man ascends to the role of prime minister of his country in 1922.
Benito Mussolini.
In the Hood, In Space, Back 2 da Hood
Leprechaun
The act of "guising" is now better known by this term
Trick-or-treating
Genus heloderma suspectum, it is the only venomous lizard native to North America
Gila monste
The most famous nephew of Stretch, Fatso, and Stinkie
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Aramis, Athos, and Porthos
Three Musketeers
The 1973 Mountjoy escape results in three IRA prisoners freeing themselves with the aid of an Alouette II type of this vehicle.
Helicopter
85, Viral, Halloween
V/H/S
In 2024, this was the most popular costume for kids, with 2.6 million using this costume. Hint, I was this 3 years in a row.
Spider-Man
This Ezra Koenig-led band has won two Grammys for best alternative music album.
Vampire Weekend
While never given a proper name, Frankenstein's creature gives himself this biblical name
Adam
The seedy Berlin nightclub from the musical and film Cabaret
Kit Kat
In 1913, a streetcar workers strike results in a police mutiny and declaration of martial law in this midwestern city.
Indianapolis
Urban Harvest, Fields of Terror, Genesis
In Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Dr. Loomis calls it Samhain, but this is how the word is actually pronoucned.
Sow-in/Sah-win
The term for a mechanical timepiece where the moving pieces are visible
Skeleton watch
The only character to appear on both the American Film Institute's list of top 50 heroes and top 50 villains.
Terminator/T-1000
Fisk
Swedish Fish