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What is "Halloween"?
The villain in this 1978 Horror classic shares his name with the man of Austin Powers fame
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What is Bobbing for Apple Cider
A game to win a fruit with only your teeth - perhaps using a fall drink
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What is Cauldron Bubble?
Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and this witching motif
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What is Salem?
This Halloween favorite Massachusetts town is famous for their witch trials
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What are Jack-O-Lanterns?
These carved gourds originated in Ireland or Scotland to represent the spirits walking among us
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Who is Sarah Jessica Parker?
Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and this star make up a coven of witches in the Halloween classic "Hocus Pocus"
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Who is Casper the Friendly Ghostface?
A not so scary ghoul as the villain from "Scream"
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What is Count Chocula?
You may add milk to eat this annual Halloween vampiric themed General Mills cereal
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Who is the Headless Horseman?
This equestrian upstate New York ghoul was famously killed during the Battle of White Plains in the American Revolution
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What is Trick or Treating?
Because the souls of the dead wander the streets on all hallows eve and must be appeased this tradition began
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Who is Sidney Prescott?
Billy Loomis and Stu Macher wreck havoc while stalking this Woodsboro High School student in "Scream"
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What is Ballpark Frankenstein?
They plump when you cook them, as Mary Shelly's monster
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What is A Nice Chianti?
In the Horror classic "Silence of the Lambs" Hannibal Lecter paired a man's liver with fava beans and this
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What is Samhain?
This Gaelic festival marked the origins of Halloween
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What is Mischief Night?
The night before Halloween is known by this delinquent name
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Who is Leatherface?
Texas was massacred by this chainsaw wielding monster in the 1974 classic
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What is Haunted Hayride The Lightning?
A scary fall farm excursion while listening to Metallica's second album
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What is True Blood?
This was a blood substitute for the vampires among us in an HBO series by the same title
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What is Consumption?
Vampire legends were spread from stories of those dying from this disease having been eaten by family members
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What is Candy Corn?
This Halloween staple was originally called "Chicken Feed" when produced in the 1880s by the Wunderle Candy Company
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What is Taxidermy?
This morbid hobby was a favorite of Norman Bates in the Hitchcock classic "Psycho"
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What is Ahhh! Real Monster Mash?
An eerie 90s Nickelodeon Cartoon as performed by Bobby Pickett
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What is Lemonade?
The film "Cabin Fever" ends with officers drinking this infected concoction contaminated by dirty creek water
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What is McKamey Manor?
This "extreme haunt" has a $20,000 prize for completion and costs only a bag of dog food to enter but has never been finished
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What is Barmbrack?
In Ireland the traditional Halloween food is this fruitcake filled with inedible prizes such as rings, coins or small toys
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