Favorite Halloween Candy Quiz

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Favorite Halloween Candy Quiz
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Forget costumes, Halloween is all about the candy! Take our quiz to see how much you know about the candy treats that make this holiday so sweet.
What is the most desirable candy to find in your trick-or-treat bag, according to a 2016 poll?
Snickers
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Skittles
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In a 2016 poll of candy fiends, the chocolate and peanut butter of a Reese's Cup were the No. 1 pick, followed by Snickers and Butterfinger.

True or false: Candy corn ranks as the preferred Halloween candy in five states.
true
false
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Five states — Wyoming, Tennessee, Texas, Oregon and South Carolina — chose candy corn as their preferred Halloween treat in a 2016 poll.

How much do Americans spend on Reese's Peanut Butter Cups every year?
$100 million
$250 million
$500 million
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In 2013, Americans spent $510 million on the sugary favorites, making Reese's the best-selling candy in the U.S.

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True or false: Milton Hershey invented the Reese's Cup.
true
false
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Hershey invented his share of candy, but it was H.B. Reese who invented the cup that bears his name — though he was employed by Hershey at the time.

What year did candy fans first bite into a Reese's Cup?
1928
1948
1968
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The Peanut Butter Cup was part of an assortment of chocolates sold by Reese starting in 1928. He started selling individual cups in 1935 and sold his product to Hershey in 1963.

True or false: M&M's are the second best-selling candy after Reese's.
true
false
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Mars moves 435 million units of M&M's annually. They rank second in overall candy sales but only eighth in sales of snack-sized treats.

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What do the M's on M&M's stand for?
Mars and Mars
Mars and Murrie
Mars and Mercury
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The M's stand for Mars and Murrie, who came up with the rainbow-coated candy.

What year were M&M's invented?
1921
1931
1941
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The candy was developed in 1941. At first, it was only sold to the military, which included it in soldier rations.

What Halloween favorite was invented in the 1880s by the Wunderlee Candy Co.?
caramel apples
taffy
candy corn
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Wunderlee came up with candy corn in the 1880s and sold the recipe to Goelitz — now Jelly Belly — in 1898.

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Which of these names was candy corn originally sold under?
chicken feed
sweet corn
striped triangles
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To appeal to the nation's rural roots, candy corn was sold as "chicken feed" and featured a picture of a rooster on the box.

How many millions of pounds of candy corn are sold each year?
5 million
15 million
35 million
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Love it or hate it, candy companies sell 35 million pounds of the stuff every year; that's a staggering 9 billion kernels.

True or false: Most people nibble candy corn one color at a time.
true
false
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While 43 percent start by nibbling off the tiny white tip, a full 47 percent pop the entire piece in their mouth at once.

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What is the Kit Kat named for?
an animal
a beverage
a club
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The crispy treat is named for a 17th century club owned by Christopher Catling.

What year was the first Kit Kat sold?
1915
1935
1955
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The first person to break off a piece of a Kit Kat bar did so in 1935, when the treat was known as the Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.

When did the Kit Kat get its name?
1937
1967
1997
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Just two years after it was introduced, the Kit Kat got its famous name. That was also the first time that the word "break" was used to advertise the bar.

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What city do Mary Janes hail from?
Boston
Baltimore
Charleston, South Carolina
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The Miller family invented Mary Janes in 1884 in their Boston basement — in a home once owned by Paul Revere.

Whom did Charles Miller name Mary Janes after?
his aunt
his wife
his daughter
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Miller claimed to name the candy after his aunt, but cynics claim he was seeking free advertising when he named the candy for Aunt Mary Jane of Buster Brown fame.

What is the Snickers bar named for?
a person
a dog
a horse
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Snickers was named after a racehorse that died two months before the bar made it to market in 1930.

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What is the Jolly Rancher named for?
an ice cream shop
a guy who owned a ranch
a ship
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The Jolly Rancher was a 1940s ice cream shop in Colorado before the shop's owners realized that there was big money in hard candy.

What year were Dum Dums introduced?
1904
1924
1944
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Dum Dums, so-named because the words are easy to say, came out in 1924. The company now makes 2.4 billion lollipops per year.

What candy bar is one of the four food groups, according to Bart Simpson?
Milky Way
Snickers
Butterfinger
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In a 1988 commercial, Bart calls Butterfinger one of the four food groups. The other three are sandwich, cow and jungle.

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True or false: The Butterfinger was named for clumsy sports stars.
true
false
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The term "butterfinger" was used to describe sports players who fumbled the ball and made a perfect name for the candy bar when it was introduced in 1923.

What was the very first flavor of Life Savers?
Pep-O-Mint
Wint-O-Green
Cherry
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The Pep-O-Mint Life Saver was introduced in 1912, and the company has created more than 40 new flavors since then.

What candy was originally called Opal Fruits?
Skittles
Laffy Taffy
Starburst
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Called Opal Fruits when they came out in 1960, Starburst candies originally came in four flavors, including strawberry, lemon, orange and lime.

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True or false: The 3 Musketeers bar used to include three flavors in a single bar.
true
false
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The bar used to include three segments — chocolate, vanilla and strawberry — until it was changed to just chocolate during World War II.

What candy bar once featured a variation known as Forever Yours?
Snickers
Milky Way
100 Grand
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The dark chocolate Milky Way was called the Forever Yours bar until it was pulled off the shelf in 1979. It's now known as the Milky Way Midnight.

True or false: Swedish Fish are actually from Sweden.
true
false
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The "wine gummies" were introduced in the 1950s by Swedish candy company Malaco.

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What percentage of people hand out candy on Halloween?
30 percent
50 percent
70 percent
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Nearly 95 percent of Americans buy Halloween candy, but only 70 percent claim to hand this candy out on Halloween.

True or false: The week before Halloween is the biggest week of the year for U.S. candy sellers.
true
false
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Believe it or not, Easter is the real sweet spot for candy companies, with more candy sold in the week before Easter than the week before Halloween.

How much do Americans spend on Halloween candy each year?
$20 million
$200 million
$2 billion
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Americans shell out $2 billion annually on Halloween candy and spend almost $7 billion on the holiday, when you include decorations and costumes.

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