Legends and Lore
Anatomy
Music
Signs and Symbols
Halloween
100

In Arabian myth these spirits are made of air or fire; you probably associate them with magic lamps

Genie

100

It's the most common eye color

Brown

100

It's the term for a piece or passage played by only one performer

Solo

100

The flags of Chile, Cuba & Texas each display a single one of these

Star

100

Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them

Gaelic

200

This sorcerer taught the Lady of the Lake Magic, then she imprisoned him in an enchanted thornbush

Merlin

200

The pulse point highest on your body is located here

Temple

200

It's the note found at the approximate center of a piano keyboard

Middle C

200

During the Middle Ages, this 1-horned mythical beast sometimes represented Christ

Unicorn

200

In a forerunner to this Halloween statement, kids would ask for food in exchange for saying prayers for the dead

Trick or treat

300

Depicted in Egyptian sculpture, the criosphinx has the head of a ram & the body of this animal

Lion

300

It's the "right pipe" for food to go down

Esophagus

300

Of the 3 natural male singing voices, it's the highest one

Tenor

300

A white one of these flowers was a symbol of the House of York

Rose

300

In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character

Michael Myers

400

These shrieking beings found in Celtic folklore didn't mourn for obscure people

Banshees

400

These blood cells number fewer than the red cells but more than the white cells

Platelet cells

400

Including over half the musicians, it's the largest section of a symphony orchestra

Strings

400

Sign of the zodiac often represented by the symbol seen here:

Sagittarius

400

What would Halloween be without this novelty song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash"

Monster Mash

500

These gnomelike beings of Scandinavian myth are featured in the maelstrom ride at EPCOT Center

Trolls

500

Latin for "little grape", it moves up when you say "Ahh"

Uvula

500

The cantata & oratorio came into being during this period of music that lasted until around 1750

The Baroque

500

A sun disk was the personal symbol of this Egyptian sun god

Ra

500

This Halloween game may be derived from the inclusion of the goddess Pomona in the festivities

Bobbing for apples