Trick or Treat: Do You Know Your Halloween Candy?

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By BrainFall Staff - Published: October 29, 2020

In the United States, consumers buy Halloween candy by the truckload because of how much kids like snack-size chocolate treats, candy corn, hard candy, sour patch kids, and just about every other kind of candy you can name. But, both adults and kids love Halloween candies. Do you really know everything there is to know about Halloween candy?

Halloween Candy

Did you know that the most popular Halloween candy in America is not made of chocolate? Or that the average kid will consume nearly 7,000 calories (about 10 Whoppers) of Halloween candy? The Halloween tradition of Trick or Treat began in the 1930s and has gotten better every year since. But the one thing that always seems to stay the same is the candy. Halloween is the one day of the year where you can get a mix of fun-size candy, full-size candy bars, and the best candy of the year. From Kit Kat bars to Skittles, and every piece of juicy milk chocolate candy in between, we did the research and have the perfect quiz to test your Halloween candy knowledge.

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Question 1/15

How many pounds of chocolate candy is sold the week leading up to Halloween? (Hint: It is the largest candy sales of the year, including Easter and Christmas.)

65 million pounds
90 million pounds
1.2 billion pounds
10 million pounds

Question 2/15

What is the name of the pink-colored gum that was invented by the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in 1928 by an accountant?

Bazooka
Big League Chew
Dubble Bubble
Hubba Bubba

Question 3/15

What famous fruit gets a lollipop stick put in it before being dipped into a sugar water coating which hardens and forms an iconic Halloween treat?

Cherry Ghosts
Candy Apples
Strawberries covered in chocolate
Raspberry Mummies

Question 4/15

As much as we all love making fun of this traditional Halloween candy for being nothing more than a pile of sugar with no taste, it still sells more than 20 million pounds of it during the Halloween season.

Candy Pumpkin
Sweetarts
Root Beer Barrels
Candy Corn

Question 5/15

What is the name of the candy that is constructed with six pieces of almond bits dipped in a honey-flavored taffy?

Bit-O-Honey
Zagnut
Laffy Taffy
Almond Joy

Question 6/15

This sweet, colored powder candy is wrapped tightly in a long skinny tube and is one of the most popular Halloween candies ever because it is basically a quick hit of sugar.

Fun Dip
Sneaky Stardust
Pixy Stix
ICEE Dip-n-Lik

Question 7/15

About how much money did Americans spend on Halloween candy in 2019, according to the National Retail Federation?

$8.1 billion
$903 million
$1.1 billion
$2.6 billion

Question 8/15

What legendary Halloween favorite is a piece of hard taffy with an old-fashioned peanut butter and molasses flavor that has been around since 1914?

Abba-Zaba
Mary Jane
Kits Taffy
Turkish Taffy

Question 9/15

In what year did the Mars candy company release its top-selling Milky Way candy bar in a smaller size they called "fun size"?

1968
1974
1965
1961

Question 10/15

Finally making a return in 2020, these small round Halloween candies were made by the New England Confectionery Company and contained eight flavors: lemon, orange, licorice, lime, cinnamon, clove, wintergreen, and chocolate.

Runts
Candy Melts
Necco Wafers
Satellite Wafers

Question 11/15

What is the name of the round candy-coated chocolate candy pieces that are not M&M's but sure do look and taste like them?

Snowcaps
Smarties
Monster Poop
Sixlets

Question 12/15

What malted milk ball covered in chocolate continues to sell every Halloween, but in some opinions is one of the worst candies you can get when trick or treating?

Whoppers
Maltesers
Rayge
Milk Duds

Question 13/15

What hard fruit candy is made by The Hershey Company but was originally founded in Denver, Colorado where the owners wanted to name it something happy to be enticing to consumers?

Red Foil Cherry Hard Candy
Jolly Rancher
Strawberry Bon Bons
Lifesavers

Question 14/15

What do they call Smarties, small tablet candy in a wrapped stack, in Canada?

Smartee's
Fun Wafers
Lentily's
Rockets

Question 15/15

What is the name of the classic milk chocolate caramel bar of candy that is basically just hard caramel on a stick?

Daim
Skor
Sugar Daddy
Heath

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