Halloween 2026 (Trivia Battle)

All right, a quick

Halloween question to start us off: What nocturnal flying

mammal

is a

common

Halloween

decoration?

Oh,

that's

gotta

be

a bat.

Correct.

Yes.

Welcome to Kids

vs.

Parents, the family trivia battle with four

question for the kids and four tougher ones for the parents.

I'm Lovella,

and I'm

Steve.

Today

is our Halloween episode.

As we prepare for Halloween on the weekend,

in fact, we've

already done some

trunk or treat.

Yeah, we have.

Our local schools

done a trunkal treat already.

Yeah, so that's fun.

We've already got some

candy

at home.

I've

pretty much

eaten it all.

Just gonna empty the bucket.

I haven't had candy in like a year.

Of course, I'm

eating.

You've

emptied the bucket from trunkal treat, ready to

reset the clock.

Yeah,

exactly.

I can fill it all in.

Yeah, you don't want to.

You don't want to start Halloween with a half

full bucket of.

Candy, yeah, exactly,

right.

Of course,

that makes no sense.

Yeah.

Speaking of candy, Lovella, what's the

prize

today?

The prize is the

winner gets to take some candy from the

other

person's trick or

treat stash.

So

I will

officially be able to do it, rather than just

sneakily do it when you're asleep.

Oh, bud, you have no idea where I'm hiding my candy this

year.

Well, just don't get your

siblings

to

hide theirs either, because

oh, don't worry,

I eat from theirs too.

So,

right,

like

that's how

I save mine,

right?

You know, I eat

from theirs first, and then I eat from mine.

All right.

Well, who's going to go first in our

Halloween trivia episode

today, Raella?

Let's

do

the parents.

Oh, you want to send me in first?

Oh yeah.

Okay.

All right.

I'll go up first.

I'm not afraid.

I'm not afraid on Halloween.

I'm.

I can do.

Oh, you're afraid.

I can do.

You're

afraid, bud.

You're afraid.

All right.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

Yeah.

All right.

Question

number one.

What does the Hollows part

in

All Hallows

Eve refer

to?

Okay,

so what does Hollows

refer to in All Hallows

Eve?

Right.

So this is the this is what

Halloween kind of derived from.

Yes.

Came out of All Hallows Eve.

Hollows,

I think,

means holy.

I think

is that is my guess.

What do you mean by just holy?

Just holy?

Well, yeah.

Like

you're saying, what does the word Hallow's mean?

I feel like it's

holy.

All

Hallow's

Eve,

holy, or is it saints?

All

Saints'

Eve?

No, I'm gonna

say holy.

Okay,

you are.

I.

I'm gonna give you the point.

It's

technically like holy people or saints.

But oh, okay.

Well, I said saints.

People too.

Holy people.

But yes, you're correct.

Right.

I was trying to figure out what the word meant, like Halos.

Okay.

Okay.

Holy people.

Holy people.

Or

saints.

People or saints.

I did say saints.

Cool.

Question number two.

What is the only U.S.

state that produces more

pumpkins than

any

other

state?

Okay, so a state that produces a lot of

pumpkins—it'll be one of those farming states,

probably

Idaho.

I have no idea in the mid

in the Midwest.

Idaho

is

Utah.

Is

Utah a farming?

I think Utah is a farming state too.

I'm going to say Idaho, just because I

I was at Costco the other day and I picked up potatoes and the potatoes were from

Idaho.

Okay,

that is my

reasoning for this

answer.

And so you think

pumpkins

are

obviously from Idaho when you saw

potatoes?

Well,

I'm just sort of saying that I think

Idaho has a lot of farming.

That's all.

Okay, I don't

have any other reason

behind it.

That's my guess.

All right.

Well, you are

incorrect.

It was

Illinois.

Oh, Illinois.

Illinois.

Okay.

Illinois

makes a lot of pumpkins.

Hey.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

There you go.

Well, it's kind of close.

It's mid,

the mid east.

Chicago, Chicago, the mid east, or is it the mid west?

I have no idea.

It's the mid east.

I don't know.

Okay.

All right.

Question

number three.

What

is

Ichabod

Crane's supernatural

adversary?

Okay,

so

the villain,

the villain who's after Ichabod Crane, yeah,

that's the Headless Horseman,

correct?

Yeah,

I remember in my fifth grade class.

Did you read that book?

No, but we listened.

Sleepy Hollow, right?

The legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Yeah, but we listened to a podcast.

I think was called like The Hollow or something, and it was themed to it.

It was like based on like children.

Like

in the past, the stories, the

story, yeah,

it was

really good.

Okay, nice.

You like that?

Another podcast

recommendation?

Yes.

We

like shouting.

I'm not sure that's

correct, but pretty sure it is.

Yeah.

Okay,

so I'm

two

out of three now.

Okay,

I'm

happy with that score.

Let's see how we go with question four.

All right.

Question

number four.

What candy bar combines chocolate, caramel,

nougat, and

peanuts?

Chocolate, caramel,

nougat, and

peanuts.

Yes.

Never had one in my life

due to my

peanut allergy.

Oh,

so is this hard for you or no?

No, I know the answer.

Oh,

it's got to be a

Snickers,

right?

It has to be a Snickers.

Peanuts, nougat, caramel.

Yeah,

a Snickers bar.

You are

correct.

Yes,

like I said, never had one before.

Are they good?

I think I've had one before.

Do you like them?

I think I like

Twix, not

Snickers.

Yeah, Twix don't have the

peanuts.

Peanuts.

I don't like peanut in them as well.

I don't like peanuts, so I don't like.

I've had a Snicker, but I don't like Snickers.

So

not for me.

Not for you.

All right.

Three out of four.

I'll take that.

I'm happy with that result.

All right.

It's my turn.

All right, kids, get your Halloween buckets ready.

You're

up next.

All right.

Okay,

kids.

Halloween

questions

for you.

Halloween trivia.

You ready, Lovella?

I think so.

Question

number one.

What

do you call a

pot

or a large

kettle

that a witch

uses to brew magic

potions?

What do you think?

You're giving me this look of like

I know this, but I don't have gone playing.

Yes, I do know this.

It's

it starts with a C.

Yes, it does.

It

does

start with a C.

Oh man!

Oh man!

Oh man!

Oh man!

Oh man

Like

flu medicine,

cold medicine.

No,

cauldron, cauldron,

cauldron.

Caul, cauldron.

Cauldron, cauldron.

It's so we're

having some

like

American-Australian

pronunciation

conflicts here.

But

cauldron,

cauldron.

Yeah,

cauldron.

Australian just say cauldron.

Okay, it's

a cauldron.

Cauldron is

correct.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Right.

Well done.

All right.

Question

number

two.

I'm going to give you a candy one as well.

You ready for a candy one?

Yes, I think so.

Okay.

What is the name

of the

popular

Halloween

candy

that is a

chocolate

cup

filled with

peanut

butter?

What do you think?

Reese's

Pieces peanut butter cup.

We I

okay.

Wait, what?

What is it?

It's Reese's

Pieces.

Reese's

Pieces.

That is that your

answer?

What?

I'm so

confused.

So it's

the

the big cup.

The big

the big

the big one.

The one that's like the size of a

coin,

like a

big coin.

Peanut butter cup.

Reese's peanut butter cup.

Reese's peanut butter.

Or Reese's Pieces.

What's your

answer?

Reese's peanut butter cup.

You are correct.

Okay, that was so confusing.

Well, Reese's Pieces is a different candy.

It's

smaller.

It's

tiny little ones.

I think it still has peanut butter in them.

But the

Reese's peanut butter cups is the one I'm

going

for.

I may have given you it anyway, but

I wanted you to

clarify which one you were talking about.

Okay.

Well done.

All right.

We've got the candy one on the board.

Two

out of two so far.

Two out of two.

Let's see if I can still.

I've got a stumpy.

All right.

Here we go.

I've

got one to stumpy.

Ready?

Question

number three.

In which

century did

Halloween

begin becoming widely commercialized

in the

United States?

Don't fret, it's a

multiple choice

question.

A few.

I was about to like.

I have no idea.

All right.

So, A,

the

seventeen

hundreds.

B, the

eighteen

hundreds.

C, the nineteen hundreds.

Or D,

the two

thousands.

Okay.

All right.

So, do you need them again, or you good?

No.

Seventeen hundred,

eighteen hundred,

nineteen hundred, two thousand.

Yeah.

I'm ruling out

1700s because I feel like that's

too,

like it's too like too early.

Yeah, like I

don't think

Halloween was like

like the type of Halloween that it is now.

I don't think that was a thing.

That's

right.

So I'm

talking about

commercialized, so like

costumes

and trick or treating.

Oh yeah.

Oh, popular.

I'm

gonna

say

1900s.

Yeah.

Because.

Like it could have been late 1900s,

so yeah,

I'm gonna say 1900s because two hundred years,

two thousands.

Yeah, you got a hundred years to pick

from.

So

it

like

eighteen

eighteen hundred?

No, no, no.

That's

no

too

early.

Too early.

Even eighteen

ninety nine?

No, no, no.

Yeah, I'm gonna say

1900s because I also think like two thousands might be a bit too late.

Like I feel like they would have.

It's like 1980s,

1990s.

I think 1990s.

Maybe

I have no idea.

Okay,

but.

I think

1900s is where I'm going to go.

You're going to lock in 1900s.

Okay.

The answer

is

the 1900s.

Yes.

Let's go.

I

don't have a

a

particular date.

I think because it's

so

ambiguous.

So

so

bored.

Right.

Well done.

Let's go.

I thought I would stump you with that.

Out of three,

three

out of three.

Okay.

Here we go.

You're going to be taking from my

Halloween.

Stash at the moment.

Oh, I am.

I don't have a Halloween bucket, but we'll see how we go.

You can use mine.

Thank you.

I can use your

second one.

Yeah,

I have two.

Yeah, thanks.

All right, here we go.

Question number four:

Is

a

pumpkin

a

fruit

or

a

vegetable?

Okay, I have a fifty-fifty chance.

You do.

They can be fruit or a vegetable.

It's

tough because a lot of like fruits and vegetables can be like you think they're a fruit, but they're actually a vegetable.

You think they're a vegetable?

They're a fruit.

Right.

I'm

gonna

say because

someone

someone used to tell me

that

you put it on ice cream, it's a fruit.

Oh.

But that's.

I think that's

interesting.

Wait, no, that actually kind of makes sense.

But if you would put it on ice cream, it would be a fruit.

But.

No, I mean that's

yeah.

I'm talking about.

This isn't the only

reason I'm gonna say a

pumpkin is a fruit,

but because like pumpkin pie.

I mean, I don't like

pie

personally.

So there you go.

But I know

people do that.

I was gonna say, but that is.

But also, I'm talking.

I want the scientific,

you know,

reason.

Like, is this a fruit or a vegetable?

Well, I can't

tell you that, but I'm gonna say it's a fruit because.

Like a young

version of me would say, it's a

vegetable because it just

gives

off

vegetable,

gives

off vegetable vibes.

But

I'm gonna

guess a fruit.

I'm just gonna go with that.

You are

correct.

Yes, let's go.

Because I think

because of the seeds in the

in the middle.

You know, seeds are a

good

sign of a

fruit.

Technically speaking, it is

actually a

berry.

Oh, yeah, because it grows on a vine.

Oh, oh, yeah.

So technically, it's

a berry, isn't that strange?

Quite a big berry.

Yeah.

Big

berry.

There you go.

Well,

Vella,

that is a clean

sweep in Halloween

trivia

for you.

Well done.

All right,

and I was.

Two

or three?

Yeah, I got

three.

Yeah, you got three.

I got three, so I'm only one

behind

you.

Yeah.

So let's move

into our bonus

tiebreaker round.

One question

worth

two

points.

Okay.

Okay.

Each team can answer this.

The first team to buzz in gets a chance to answer first.

But if you get it wrong,

the two points go to the other team.

Okay.

All right.

So you're sitting pretty here,

Lovella,

with four.

You can just sit back and maybe let me answer if you don't know it.

No.

Or you're

not taking from my candy bucket.

You can.

I'm trying to kind of hint at you.

Just don't answer it, Lovella.

Let me answer.

I'll

answer.

All right.

I'll answer.

All right, here we go.

Bonus

or

tiebreaker question:

What

is a group of witches

called?

Buzz.

I know this.

Oh my gosh!

I don't think I know this.

I actually don't know this.

I can tell you.

I can tell you.

I got you.

I got you.

I got

And

then I

also

watched

recently for the first time Hocus Pocus, which is also about a group of witches.

Yes.

And they mentioned

that a group

of witches is called a coven.

Ah!

I didn't know that.

Coven, coven,

coven.

Well,

congratulations, Lovella.

You are

correct.

I am correct.

Which means

the kids

win

Halloween.

Let's

go.

Ah, you get to steal from my

Halloween

stash.

Don't worry.

I'm giving you a

big

bucket.

I'm going to take

five handfuls.

So I'm going to use

one of your buckets

to collect my own candy, and then you're going to

steal

from that bucket.

So basically, I'm just collecting candy for you now.

Yeah,

pretty much.

Right.

Just dress up and look like a kid.

So like maybe shave off that

beard

of

yours.

Right.

Like

don't look so

old.

Get rid of some of the grey hair.

Cover

those

wrinkles.

Jeez.

Just so you look like a kid again.

It probably won't work

anyway.

Kayla,

thank you.

I feel

I always feel great recording an episode this

with you.

I always feel much

older,

wiser.

You're welcome.

Well, we're not quite done with our spooky

season

just

yet.

We thought

an episode on

Nightmare

Before

Christmas was a good way to finish

up.

Perfect.

So we're going to do that next week.

Yeah.

So come back

and join us next week.

That's

right.

And

have fun out there, trick or treating.

Yes.

If you're going, stay safe.

Stay safe.

Stay safe.

Number one thing.

That's

right.

Stay safe.

And don't let your parents steal your candy

when you go to bed.

Hide them really well.

Unless they won this competition.

Unless they won Halloween.

No,

no, no, no, no.

Anyways,

just

hide it.

Like

hide it somewhere in your

bedroom.

That's really

usually

hide it where you don't

suspect them to look.

We will find it, Lovella.

We will find it.

No, you won't.

We will find it.

You have

no

idea, Dad.

My room is so messy.

I have

so many drawers.

I have so many

hidden spots.

That is very true.

It's great

life.

Thanks for joining.

Some kids

versus parents.

Happy Halloween.

Bye bye.