As you could tell if you counted the number of cavities in my mouth, Halloween was one of my favorite holidays as a kid. I grew up in suburbia, where walking around the neighborhood for a couple of hours could net you enough plunder to start your own candy store. Or at least enough to eat a candy bar after every meal until Chocolate Day, I mean, Valentine's Day.

The following trivia covers Halloween itself, Halloween in the movies, and some of my favorite Halloween candy.

Halloween Questions

• Q1) What Christian holiday immediately follows Halloween?
• Q2) Which kid in the Peanuts gang anxiously awaits the Great Pumpkin every year?
• Q3) Which Peanuts cast member was named for a candy bar?
• Q4) Who is the killer in the 1978 Halloween horror movie and its sequels?
• Q5) In The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), what character tries to turn Christmas into Halloween?
• Q6) What candy missed out on some prime product placement when its owner turned down a role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
• Q7) What is a nutless Almond Joy called?
• Q8) What candy was Good & Plenty's multi-colored sibling?
• Q9) Which baseball player did the Curtiss Candy Company name a new candy bar for in 1978?
• Q10) In which country did PEZ candy debut in 1927?
• Q11) What color is the tip of a candy corn?
• Q12) What candy is advertised as the "freshmaker"?
• Q13) What new color of Smarties debuted in 1989?
• Q14) What flavor is the white Smarties candy?
• Q15) What type of gas can be found in the middle of Pop Rocks?
• Q16) What was the Kit Kat candy bar named for?
• Q17) What candy did Leo Hirshfield name for his daughter?
• Q18) What candy bar sponsored The Howdy Doody Show from 1949 to 1952 and was known as the Marathon bar in the United Kingdom until 1990?
• Q19) What candy bar was named for a novel and originally included vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry flavors?
• Q20) What candy bar was named for a popular dance in 1922?
• Q21) What candy uses Mr. Owl as its mascot?
• Q22) What candy bar spawned from the 1950s television quiz show era?
• Q23) What candy bar sounds like a baseball player's name but isn't?
• Q24) What candy bar used Bart Simpson as its pitchman in the 1990s?
• Q25) What ingredient provides the crunch in Nestle Crunch bars?

Category Questions:

History & Government	Who killed John F. Kennedy?
Literature & Arts	What is the second book in the Old Testament?
Sports & Games	What is the most common nickname in the history of Major League Baseball?
Math & Science	What is the name for a substance with metallic properties consisting of a metal fused with one or more metals or nonmetals?
Geography & Nature	What is the only country whose common name begins with a 'Q'?
Entertainment & Food	Whose assassination is David Crosby's song "A Long Time Coming" about?

Category Answers:

History & Government	SMITH	Entrepreneur Frederick Smith handed in the term paper for his Economics 43A class in 1965, and Federal Express Corporation was born six years later.
Sports & Games	KAFELNIKOV	The ranking system uses a rolling one-year window. While Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov lost some points, his nearest challengers happened to lose more.
Geography & Nature	INDONESIA	The two countries split the second largest island in the world into almost equal eastern and western halves.
Literature & Arts	SAND	The 19th-century feminist, known as George Sand, became Baroness Dudevant by marrying Baron Casimir Dudevant in 1822.
Math & Science	ANTHRAX	The vaccine, used to counteract biological warfare, may have been one of the causes of Gulf War syndrome.
Entertainment & Food	LAWLESS	New Zealander Lucy Lawless returned to television as Kathleen Clayton in Tarzan in 2003 but has otherwise moved on to the big screen.

Quiz Quilt Answer: MANANA (2nd letters)

With a tilde over the first 'n', "manana" means "tomorrow" in Toledo, Spain.

b) He won a strikeout title

George Herman Ruth's high of 170 strikeouts in 1916 would have led the National League but was 58 fewer than Walter Johnson in the American League.

Which of the following was not true about Babe Ruth's major league pitching career?

a) He won an ERA title
b) He won a strikeout title
c) He won 20 games in a season
d) He won a World Series game