Candy
This colourful candy comes in a yellow bag and features a red character named Red and a yellow character named Yellow.
What are M&Ms?
Halloween generates billions in sales annually, with consumers spending heavily on candy, decorations, and these wearable items.
What are costumes?
This 1993 Disney Halloween film follows three witch sisters named Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson.
What is Hocus Pocus?
Halloween is celebrated annually on this date.
What is October 31st?
This orange vegetable is commonly carved into jack-o'-lanterns during Halloween.
What is a pumpkin?
This popular chocolate bar features layers of nougat, caramel, and peanuts, and shares its name with a famous astronomical phenomenon.
What are Snickers?
This temporary Halloween retail chain is famous for occupying vacant storefronts during the fall season.
What is Spirit Halloween?
This Tim Burton-produced animated film features Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Halloween's origins are closely connected to the traditions of this ancient European people.
Who are the Celts?
This legendary creature from Irish folklore is said to predict death through its haunting cries.
What is banshee?
This Halloween candy is shaped like a triangle and traditionally features yellow, orange, and white layers.
What is candy corn?
Businesses that dramatically increase their sales during specific holidays are said to experience this type of demand.
What is seasonal demand?
This Netflix series stars Jenna Ortega as a teenage member of the Addams Family attending Nevermore Academy.
What is Wednesday?
This ancient Celtic festival, marking the end of the harvest season, is considered a major predecessor of Halloween.
What is Samhain?
This famous American author wrote The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This candy, introduced in 1928, was originally marketed as "Chicken Feed" before becoming a Halloween staple.
What is candy corn?
This chocolate company, which owns Reese's and Kit Kat in the United States, is one of the largest beneficiaries of Halloween candy sales.
What is Hershey's?
In the 1978 horror film Halloween, this masked character terrorizes the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
What is Halloween?
Before pumpkins became popular, people in Ireland and Scotland traditionally carved lanterns out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips?
This ancient Egyptian deity, depicted with the head of a jackal, was associated with embalming and guiding souls into the afterlife.
Who is Anubis?
In 1976, this candy brand famously introduced its peanut butter cup product with the slogan "Two great tastes that taste great together."
What is Reese's?
Retailers use this pricing strategy when they temporarily reduce prices on Halloween merchandise after October 31 to clear unsold inventory.
What is clearance pricing?
This 1922 silent German horror film, an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, introduced the vampire Count Orlok.
What is Nosferatu?
The word "Halloween" is a shortened form of this phrase, referring to the evening before All Saints' Day.
What is "All-Hallows-Eve"?
This ancient Greek term refers to a ritual intended to summon or consult the spirits of the dead.
What is necromancy?