Find the Halloween Costume Hidden in a Sentence Quiz

Answer: Demi Moore film

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "Don't lauGH, OSTeoporosis..."

Demi Moore starred with Patrick Swayze in the 1990 film "Ghost" that ticked off a slew of genres: romance, comedy, fantasy, drama, revenge, etc. The film was nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture, but won two: Best Supporting Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), and Original Screenplay (Bruce Joel Rubin).

Ghost costumes for Halloween, are perennially among the most popular/common choices. Year in and year out they appear on the top 10 lists of most popular costumes for Halloween.

Answer: Homophone for a pronoun

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "...dry WIT CHanged..."

Along with ghost, a witch is in the top ten most common Halloween costumes every year. They're interesting costumes in that they run the gamut from "Ugly Witch" costumes to "Sexy Witch" costumes. They can symbolize female empowerment or a defiance of societal norms.

The word which is used as a relative pronoun to introduce non-restrictive clauses, that give information about a noun earlier in the sentence. For example: "The demon, which appeared in the nightmare, was from Hell."
The words "witch" and "which" are considered homophones because they have the same pronunciation but different meanings and spellings.

Answer: Professional athlete for Pittsburgh team

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "To calculate PI, RATE the..."

The Pittsburgh Pirates are a professional baseball team in Major League Baseball. They have a storied history; Roberto Clemente was a Pirate, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1973 posthumously. The nickname "Pirates" emerged after the team was accused of being "piratical" for "stealing" a player from the Philadelphia Athletics without proper negotiation. I bet if there was a documentary about that incident it would be rated...."Arrrrrr!"

Answer: King Tut

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "...chrysantheMUM MY green thumb..."

Mummies were dead bodies that were preserved via embalming and wrapped in linen to prevent decay. King Tutankhamun, aka King Tut, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, whose tomb was discovered in 1922. Tutankhamun's mummy was found wrapped in linen and covered with a gold funerary mask.

The 1932 film "The Mummy" by Universal Pictures, featured Boris Karloff as the mummy Imhotep, with makeup executed by the Hollywood legend Jack Pierce. The film established the Mummy as one of the five original Universal film monsters, along with Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Wolfman, and The Invisible Man.

Answer: Superhero

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "...a caB AT MANhattan's..."

Batman is one of the most recognizable superheroes in the whole world, so he's naturally a popular choice for a costume. He first appeared in the comic books in 1939, and his costume was drawn by Bob Kane originally depicting him in red tights, bat wings, and a domino mask. Changes were made by a collaborator to include his cowl, cape, gloves, and an overall darker costume.

Batman costumes are among the top-selling Halloween costumes every year, a big merchandising asset for D.C. Comics. A 2016 survey by the National Retail Federation revealed that Batman, and his nemeses (Joker, Catwoman, Riddler, Batgirl, etc.) were the most popular costume choice among adults aged 18-34.

Answer: Scariest costume to someone with coulrophobia

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "To appear chiC, LOW Nicotine..."

The fear of clowns is called coulrophobia, noted for inciting distress and anxiety when encountering clowns in person or in the media. According to WebMD, some experts think that about 1 in 100 children have a fear of clowns, while some estimates say roughly 1 in 10 adults have a fear of clowns.

Lachanophobia is a fear of vegetables, eisoptrophobia is a fear of seeing your reflection in a mirror, and omphalophobia is a fear of belly buttons.

Answer: Loup-Garou or Rougarou

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "WERE WOLFgang Mozart..."

In French folklore a Loup-Garou describes a person cursed to become a wolf-like creature, ergo a werewolf. And Rougarou is a creature in Cajun folklore that shares characteristics with werewolves--French settlers brought these stories to Louisiana in the 18th century.

Khonsu is an ancient Egyptian lunar god, and Coyolxāuhqui is the Aztec goddess of the moon. Bunyip is Australian Aboriginal mythological creature having features of both a horse and aquatic creatures; the Kelpie of Scottish folklore, is water spirit that can shape-shift into the form of a horse. Blitzer and Heckmann are both journalists whose first name is Wolf.

Answer: Semordnilap of a word meaning "existed"

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "...proviDE VILe ideas..."

A semordnilap is a word that when spelled backward, spells a different word. DEVIL spelled backward for instance is LIVED. And "lived" is a synonym for existed.

The tradition of dressing as the devil can be traced back to ancient Celtic rites, especially the festival of Samhain, which signified the end of the harvest season and the onset of winter. People believed that during this period, spirits wandered around the Earth, and so wearing a costume would disguise them from the spirits and perhaps even scare them away.

Answer: A kind of decoy

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "Under hiS CARE, CROWds of..."

Scarecrows are used in agriculture as decoy mannequins to deter birds from eating the crops. The tactic dates back thousands of years to ancient civilizations in Egypt and Greece. And they're the type of costume that a lot of folks might have ready to make at any point because they're basically clothes stuffed with straw or whatever you can stuff them with: blue jeans, flannel shirt, wide brim hat. Just an eyebrow pencil to make dots/freckles on the cheeks. And some hay, or fake hay to stuff in the sleeves so it pokes out of the cuffs.

Answer: Hah! What a sucker

You can find the Halloween costume in the sentence: "...whenever I reVAMP, I REnt..."

Vampires are bloodsuckers. Pre-medieval vampire folklore going back to ancient civilizations such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, and Greeks, included stories of malevolent entities feeding on human life force. The idea of bloodsucking by vampires became more pronounced in Eastern European cultures, where myths were formed around corpses rising from the grave to bedevil the living.

Blood is symbolic of life and vitality in many cultures, so, a vampire sucking blood from the living represented a means of sustaining life by stealing it from others. Happy Halloween!