How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?
A whopping 35 million pounds of candy corn is made every year—amounting to about 9 billion pieces.
Name the person who first made the Jack-o-lantern?
Jack
How many calories are in an average trick-or-treater’s Halloween stash?
About 11,000
What’s the color order of a piece of candy corn, from the base to the point?
Yellow (base), orange (middle), and white (top)
Where does Halloween spending rank compared to other holidays? Is it first, second, or third?
It’s second. Christmas is the largest consumer holiday, although Halloween is bigger than Valentine’s Day.
How many pieces of candy does the average house give to each trick-or-treater?
Two pieces
How much is spent on pet costumes for Halloween annually?
$300 Million
Why did people start dressing up in Halloween costumes?
Many Europeans, including the Celtics, dressed in costumes to repel spirits that they believed came back to Earth on what we now know as Halloween.
What was used before pumpkins to make jack o’lanterns?
The Irish, who started the tradition, first used potatoes and turnips for jack o’lanterns before finding that pumpkins were actually much easier to carve. In En
What is the number one city for trick or treating in the United States?
San Francisco
What two candy bars were the first to come in fun size?
Snickers and Milky Way
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit
What is the most successful horror movie of all time?
IT
How many colors of M&Ms are there?
There are 25 different colors of M&M’s.
When was Halloween first celebrated in the United States?
Around the 1840s when there was a flood of Irish immigrants fleeing from the potato famine
Which country holds the record for heaviest pumpkin?
Switzerland
Complete this lyric from the hit Halloween song The Monster Mash: “I was working in the lab, late one night…”
“When my eyes beheld, an eerie sight.”
What is the most popular candy bought within the United States, including during the Halloween holidays?
M&Ms
In which country did Halloween originate?
Ireland