Halloween Candy

On average, 3.3 million pounds of this candy is purchased and passed out each Halloween, making it the most popular choice.

• Skittles

• Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

• M n M's

• Starbursts

In the 8 weeks leading up to Halloween, how much money do people spend on candy?

• 1.5 million dollars

• 2.8 billion dollars

• 7.9 million dollars

• 4.6 billion dollars

Candy corn used to have a different name. It was called...

• Chicken Feed

• Halloween Triangles

• Corn Kernels.

• Plastic Corn

What were the first fun size candy bars?

• Milky Way & Three Musketeers

• Snickers & Almond Joy

• Almond Joy & Three Musketeers

• Snickers & Milky Way

Kit Kats were introduced in Japan in 2000. How many flavors of KitKats do they offer?

• 35

• 350

• 52

• 195

If Brach's laid out the candy corn kernels it sells each year it would wrap around the Earth....

• 3.9 times

• 1.8 times

• 7.58 times

• 4.25 times

According to a licking machine invented by engineering students at Purdue University, on average, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

• 364

• 422

• 192

• 617

What is the name of the Fruit Stripes Gum zebra?

• Zada

• Yipes

• Lala

• Tootie Fruity

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Using 10 years of data, what candy is the most popular on Halloween in Virginia with 160,136 pounds consumed on average.

• Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

• Snickers

• Tootsie Pops

• Hot Tamales

About how many tootsie rolls are made per day?

• 18 billion

• 64 million

• 37 million

• 9 billion