Halloween Traditions
Players try to grab floating fruit using only their mouths in this Halloween party game.
What is bobbing for apples?
In Hocus Pocus, the three witches are known by this family name.
Who are the Sanderson sisters?
This triangular Halloween candy has white, orange, and yellow sections.
What is candy corn?
In folklore, a person transforms into this wolf-like creature, often during a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
These flying mammals associated with Halloween navigate using echoes, a skill called echolocation.
What are bats?
Before pumpkins became popular, Irish jack-o'-lanterns were often carved from this root vegetable.
What is a turnip?
This Pumpkin King tries taking over Christmas in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This candy bar combines chocolate, caramel, nougat, and peanuts.
What is Snickers?
This famous vampire lives in a castle in Transylvania.
Who is Count Dracula?
Despite its use in pies and decorations, a pumpkin is botanically this: a fruit or a vegetable.
What is a fruit?
The name Halloween is a shortened form of this phrase, meaning the evening before All Saints' Day.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
In Beetlejuice, saying this character's name three times summons him.
Who is Beetlejuice?
This candy's slogan invites you to 'Taste the Rainbow.'
What are Skittles?
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, this rider is missing a body part.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
A spider has eight legs, but an insect has this many.
What is six?
A teal pumpkin outside a home signals that it offers these alternatives for trick-or-treaters with food allergies.
What are non-food treats?
In Ghostbusters, this giant white mascot becomes a monster that stomps through New York City.
Who is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?
Unlike an Almond Joy, a Mounds bar has no almonds and uses this type of chocolate.
What is dark chocolate?
Although people often call the creature Frankenstein, that name actually belongs to this person who created him.
Who is Victor Frankenstein? (Accept Dr. Frankenstein.)
In the song 'Monster Mash,' the dance was described as this kind of 'smash.'
What is a graveyard smash?
Many Halloween customs trace back to this ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest.
What is Samhain? (Pronounced SOW-in.)
In Coraline, the Other Mother wants to replace Coraline's eyes with these sewing supplies.
What are buttons?
A candy company once marketed candy corn as this animal feed, with a rooster on the package.
What is chicken feed?
In Greek mythology, looking directly at Medusa turns a person into this.
What is stone?
The fear of this number has its own name: triskaidekaphobia.
What is 13?