Vampire Facts
Vampire Vocab
Specific Vampires
Historical Origins
Compare & Contrast
100

What do vampires drink?

Blood

100

Vampires stay in the dark and so their skin is very...

Pale

100

Who is the world's most famous vampire?

Dracula

100

Where do vampires come from?

Translyvania

100

What is the comparative form of the adjective dark?

Darker

200

During the day, vampires sleep in a...

Coffin

200

What do vampires use to bit their victims?

Fangs

200

This comic book hero is half man, half vampire and is known as "the Daywalker."

Blade

200

What is the liguistic origin of the word vampire?

Upir (old Russian)

200

Complete: “Dracula is ___ (dangerous) than that Edward.”

More dangerous

300

What vegetable do vampires hate?

Garlic

300

What do you call a creature that cannot die?

Immortal

300

What color are the vampire's eyes in Interview with the Vampire?

Green

300

What does Dracula's original name, Dracul, actually mean?

Dragon

300

Complete: "Early vampires are ___ (human) than today's vampires."

Less human

400

How do you kill a vampire?

With a stake through the heart, decapitation, and/or sunlight.

400

Vampires cannot be explained scientifically and so are considered...

Supernatural

400

In Twilight, what happens to vampires in the sun?

They sparkle

400

What poorly understood natural phenomenon contributed to the vampire myth?

Disease and/or decomposition

400

Create a comparative sentence:
Contemporary vampires / modern / early vampires

"Contemporary vampires are more modern than early vampires."

500

Which two books inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Carmilla and The Vampyre.

500

What dark and morbid literary tradition are vampires associated with?

Gothic [horror]

500

In Woman, Eating, what typical vampire reaction does Lydia have?

She doesn't like the light

500

The war between which two nations helped spread the myth of vampires to western Europe?

The Hapsburg Monarchy
and the Ottoman Empire
(modern day Austria and Turkey)

500

Contrast two vampires using any two adjectives and a contrast expression (while, whereas, etc.).

eg. "Louis de Pointe du Lac is fascinating whereas Edward is romantic."