Halloween Special #2, Halloween Emoji Quiz: answers and sources
Spoilers ahead! Play the video first. Here is every answer, the fun fact and the source we checked it against.
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Level 1: Halloween words
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Level 2: Trick or treat
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Level 3: Quick: creepy creatures
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Level 4: Spooky sayings
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Which spooky saying is this? 🌙🦉
Night owl It means someone who likes to stay up late.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/night-owl
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Which saying? 👻🏙️
Ghost town It's a town that almost everyone has left.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ghost-town
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Name this saying. 🙈🦇
Blind as a bat In fact, bats aren't blind at all.
Source: usgs.gov/faqs/are-bats-blind
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Which saying is this? 💀👔🚪
Skeleton in the closet In Britain, it hides in the cupboard.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/skeleton-in-t...
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Which saying? 🦴⛏️
A bone to pick It means you want to talk about a complaint.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/have-a-bone-t...
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Name this saying. 😭🐺
Cry wolf It comes from one of Aesop's fables.
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Which saying is this? 🧐💀🐱
Curiosity killed the cat It began as "care killed the cat."
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Which saying? 💀👥🚢
Skeleton crew It's the fewest people needed to keep things running.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/skeleton-crew
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Name this saying. 💚👁️👾
The green-eyed monster Shakespeare used it for jealousy in Othello.
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Last saying! 🦇👁️
Without batting an eye It means showing no surprise at all.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/not-bat-an-ey...
Level 5: Monster movies
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Which monster movie is this? 😱⚡🚪
Monsters, Inc. Its monster city runs on kids' screams.
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Name this film. 👁️🎓
Monsters University It's the prequel to Monsters, Inc.
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Which movie? 👦🐺👑
Where the Wild Things Are It's based on Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book.
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Guess the movie. 🗺️🏴☠️💀
The Goonies The pirate's name is One-Eyed Willy.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies
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Which film is this? 🕷️😱
Arachnophobia Its title means fear of spiders.
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Name this movie. 🪱🏜️💥
Tremors The giant worms are called Graboids.
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Which movie? 🦍🐺🐊
Rampage It's based on a 1986 arcade game.
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Guess the film. 🦶🦍👨👩👧👦
Harry and the Hendersons It won the Oscar for best makeup.
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Which movie is this? 📦🧌🧀
The Boxtrolls It was made with stop-motion puppets.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxtrolls
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The very last puzzle: which movie? 🖤💧🐟🧍
Creature from the Black Lagoon It first came out in 3D, in 1954.
The Big Aha stories
- The pumpkin record: For years, the small city of Keene, New Hampshire, held a giant pumpkin festival every October. It set the first world record for the most lit jack-o'-lanterns, then kept breaking its own record. But in 2006, Boston took the record, with 30,128 glowing pumpkins. In 2013, Keene took the record back: 30,581 jack-o'-lanterns, all lit on one night! Sources: guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-lit-jack-o-la... · wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Pumpkin_Festival · foxnews.com/travel/new-hampshire-town-sets-jack-o-latern-...
- The bat bridge: In 1980, Austin, Texas, rebuilt its Congress Avenue Bridge, with narrow gaps underneath. Hundreds of thousands of bats moved into the gaps. Many people panicked and wanted them gone! Bat experts explained that the bridge bats eat tons of insect pests every summer night. Today, up to 1.5 million bats live there each summer, and crowds come to watch them fly out at dusk. Sources: batcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/BATSSumFall02a.pdf · batcon.org/bat-city/ · batcon.org/7-tips-for-an-unforgettable-night-at-congress-...
Bonus question
Which of these emojis came out last? We reveal the answer in the pinned comment under the video.