Halloween Candy Trivia
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142 free Halloween Candy trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
25 free Halloween Candy trivia questions with answers. Candy corn was originally sold as Chicken Feed, the two Ms are two surnames, and Americans now spend nearly four billion dollars a year on Halloween sweets alone. This quiz runs 142 questions through the trick-or-treat bucket: the brands, the inventors, the slogans and the numbers. Every answer is backed by a linked source, which is more than you can say for most things printed on a wrapper.
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Q 01A Reese's cup pairs chocolate with which filling?
Peanut butter
Peanut butter — H. B. Reese started out making candy in his basement with Hershey chocolate, and when wartime rationing hit he dropped every other sweet to make only the cups.
Q 02M&M's advertising has long promised they melt in your mouth, not in your what?
Hand
Hand — the boast rests on the hard sugar shell: the US Army bought the candy first, because soldiers could carry chocolate in tropical heat without it melting.
Q 03Which candy bar's ads pit a Left factory against a rival Right factory?
Twix
Twix — the ads imagine two feuding brothers who split one bar into rival Left Twix and Right Twix factories, though both sides are identical and come off the same line.
Q 04Which Charms lollipop has a piece of bubble gum at its centre?
Blow Pop
Blow Pop — when Tootsie Roll bought Charms in 1988, putting Blow Pops beside its own Tootsie Pops made it the world's biggest lollipop maker.
Q 05In 2013, American packs of Skittles replaced the lime flavour with which fruit?
Green apple
Green apple — lime fans complained for years, and in 2021 Skittles announced that lime was returning to the original pack for good.
Q 06Candy corn's flavour is built on honey, sugar and which other flavouring?
Vanilla
Vanilla — it rounds out the honey and sugar, while fondant and marshmallow in the mix give the waxy kernels their smooth, soft bite.
Q 07Life Savers got their name because they look like what?
A ring-shaped life preserver
A ring-shaped life preserver — Clarence Crane made the mints in 1912 as a summer candy, because his chocolates melted in the heat, and the press that shaped them left the hole.
Q 08In which decade was candy corn first invented?
The 1880s
George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company came up with it in the 1880s, long before it became a Halloween fixture.
Q 09A 2025 retail survey forecast that Americans would spend roughly which record sum on Halloween?
$13.1 billion
$13.1 billion — the National Retail Federation's 2025 forecast, up from $11.6 billion a year earlier, even though about four in five shoppers expected tariffs to push prices higher.
Q 10Snickers took its name from what?
A horse the Mars family owned
A horse the Mars family owned — Snickers was one of their favourites, and the family's Tennessee stud farm was itself named after another of their candy bars.
Q 11The two Ms in M&M's come from what?
The surnames of two businessmen
The surnames of two businessmen — Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie, whose father ran Hershey; the partnership gave the new candy a supply of rationed chocolate during the war.
Q 12Tootsie Roll was named after whom?
The inventor's daughter
The inventor's daughter — Leo Hirschfield named the roll after Clara, known as Tootsie, and the nickname stuck so well that the whole company later took it as its own name.
Q 13Which chocolate bar is made by Hershey in the United States but by Nestlé almost everywhere else?
Kit Kat
Q 21Sour Patch Kids reached American shops in 1985 after first being made in which country?
Canada
Canada — the gummies were made in Hamilton, Ontario, before they crossed the border, and were renamed for the American launch while Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were the craze.
Q 22Jolly Rancher began in 1949 in a town called Golden, in which US state?
Colorado
Colorado — Bill and Dorothy Harmsen chose the name because 'Rancher' gave their shop a western feel and 'Jolly' a friendly one.
Q 23Under what name was Twix sold in Germany, France and much of mainland Europe until 1991?
Raider
Raider — the 1991 switch was announced in Germany with the rhyming slogan 'Raider heißt jetzt Twix, sonst ändert sich nix': Raider is now Twix, and nothing else changes.
Kit Kat — an old licensing deal survived Nestlé's takeover of the brand, so American Kit Kats still come from Hershey.
Q 14The name PEZ is shortened from the German word for which flavour?
Peppermint
Peppermint — PEZ takes its letters from the German Pfefferminz; it began as a mint for adults, sold as an alternative to smoking, which is why the first dispensers looked like cigarette lighters.
Q 15Before inventing his famous cup, H. B. Reese worked for Milton Hershey in which job?
Dairy farmer
Dairy farmer — Reese ran one of Hershey's experimental dairy farms until it was shut as too costly, then started making candy in his basement, buying the chocolate from his old boss.
Q 16Which colour of M&M's was withdrawn in 1976 over concerns about a food dye?
Red
Red — the suspect dye, Red No. 2, was never used in M&M's, but Mars pulled the colour anyway to avoid confusing shoppers, and red stayed away until 1987.
Q 17Kit Kat was created in the 1930s by which British confectioner?
Rowntree's of York
Rowntree's of York — the bar began with a note in the factory suggestion box asking for a chocolate bar 'that a man could take to work in his pack up'.
Q 18Which candy bar was created in 1923 to taste like the malted shakes then in fashion?
Milky Way
Milky Way — the name comes from the malted milk drinks of the day, not the galaxy, and the bar was advertised as a chocolate malted milk in a candy bar.
Q 19The makers of Baby Ruth claimed the bar was named after whom?
A US president's daughter
A US president's daughter — Curtiss said it honoured Ruth Cleveland, who had died 17 years before the bar appeared; many saw the story as a way to avoid paying Babe Ruth.
Q 20What is the narrow paper strip poking out of a Hershey's Kiss wrapper called?
A plume
A plume — Hershey added the paper flag when machines took over the wrapping, so shoppers could tell a real Kiss from the many imitators.
Q 24A teal-painted pumpkin on a Halloween doorstep signals that the house offers what?
Non-food treats
Non-food treats — the Teal Pumpkin Project began with one East Tennessee family and went national in 2014, so that children with food allergies can still go trick-or-treating.
Q 25In It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, what does Charlie Brown get while trick-or-treating?
A rock
A rock — at house after house he reports 'I got a rock', and after the 1966 broadcast viewers posted candy to Charles Schulz and the studio to make up for it.
Q 26What did children in Ireland traditionally say at the door instead of 'trick or treat'?
Help the Halloween party
Help the Halloween party — the traditional Irish call at the door; 'trick or treat' itself only became common in Ireland and Scotland in the 2000s.
Q 27An 1895 record of Scottish guisers describes lanterns carved from which vegetable?
Turnips
Turnips — an 1895 account describes Scottish masqueraders carrying lanterns cut from hollowed-out turnips and being rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.
Q 28Under what name was candy corn originally sold?
Chicken Feed
Chicken Feed — Goelitz boxes carried the name and a rooster, because the candy was aimed at farm families at a time when about half of Americans worked the land.
Q 29As of 2023, which company was the biggest maker of candy corn in the United States?
Brach's
Brach's — the market leader keeps playing with the formula: a 2022 'tailgate' mix came in hot dog and hamburger flavours, and a 2023 funfair mix added kettle corn and cotton candy.
Q 30Making one of which marshmallow treats took 27 hours by hand before a 1950s machine cut it to six minutes?
Peeps
Peeps — each chick was once formed by hand; once machines took over, the Easter favourite could spread to Halloween and Christmas shapes as well.