Q 01/05

What was candy corn originally called when it went on sale in the 1880s?

A) Sugar Cobs

B) Harvest Kernels

C) Butter Cream Corn

D) Chicken Feed

Answer · why

D) Chicken Feed

Confectioners aimed nature-shaped butter creams at a largely rural America; the Wunderle Candy Company made it first in 1888.

Q 02/05

Which company is the largest candy corn maker, at roughly seven thousand million pieces a year?

A) Jelly Belly

B) Brach's

C) Mars

D) Ferrero

Answer · why

B) Brach's

It holds roughly 85 percent of the candy-corn market each Halloween season.

Q 03/05

Candy corn's yellow, orange and white bands are usually said to stand for what?

A) The fall harvest

B) The Irish tricolour

C) Fire, ash and bone

D) Sunrise over a field

Answer · why

A) The fall harvest

The wide yellow end is meant to look like a kernel on the cob.

Q 04/05

Which company, now called Jelly Belly, began making candy corn in 1898?

A) Brach's

B) Wunderle Candy Company

C) Goelitz Confectionery

D) Whitman's

Answer · why

C) Goelitz Confectionery

It still makes candy corn today, though a rival dominates the market.

Q 05/05

What are the spiced treats handed to door-to-door singers at Allhallowtide, ancestor of trick-or-treating, called?

A) Soul cakes

B) Ghost buns

C) Saints' biscuits

D) Hallow loaves

Answer · why

A) Soul cakes

The recipients promised to pray for the souls of the givers' dead relatives; the custom survived in England until the 1930s.