Q 01/05

What was candy corn called in its early days, when it was pitched at America's farm families?

A) Sugar Cobs

B) Harvest Kernels

C) Butter Cream Corn

D) Chicken Feed

Answer · why

D) Chicken Feed

Chicken Feed: about half of Americans still worked on farms, so the kernels were sold as a sweet that looked like the hens' dinner.

Q 02/05

As of the mid-2020s, which company is the largest maker of candy corn?

A) Jelly Belly

B) Brach's

C) Mars

D) Tootsie Roll

Answer · why

B) Brach's

Brach's pushed single-serve packets of candy corn as trick-or-treating took off after the Second World War. Since a 2012 merger it has belonged to the...

Q 03/05

Which wartime measure put American trick-or-treating largely on hold in the early 1940s?

A) Blackout rules

B) Sugar rationing

C) Gasoline rationing

D) A night-time curfew

Answer · why

B) Sugar rationing

Sugar rationing ran from 1942 to 1947 and left few treats to hand out. Once it ended, children's magazines and radio shows carried the custom nationwi...

Q 04/05

Which company, renamed Jelly Belly in 2001, began making candy corn in 1898?

A) Curtiss Candy Company

B) Ferrara Pan Candy Company

C) Goelitz Confectionery

D) Whitman's Chocolates

Answer · why

C) Goelitz Confectionery

Goelitz Confectionery was started by brothers newly arrived from Germany. It took its modern name from the Jelly Belly jelly beans it began making in ...

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

Soul cakes: the 'soulers' who received them promised to pray for the givers' dead relatives, and later the visitors were mostly children asking for fo...