Breakfast cereals discontinued in the 90s
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Q 01Kellogg's 'for your spoon' cereal, in Frosted Strawberry flavour, borrowed the name of which other product?
- AEggo
- BNutri-Grain
- CPop-Tarts
- DRice Krispies Treats
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Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts Crunch was Kellogg's 1994 bid to bring the toaster pastry to the cereal bowl, and Kellogg's revived Pop-Tarts cereal in 2019.
Q 02Which cereal of star-shaped corn puffs covered in sprinkles was advertised with a genie mascot?
- AWaffle Crisp
- BHidden Treasures
- CBerry Berry Kix
- DSprinkle Spangles
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Sprinkle Spangles
General Mills' Sprinkle Spangles were star-shaped sweetened corn puffs coated in sprinkles, sold by a purple genie voiced by Dom DeLuise whose line was 'You wish it, I dish it!'
Q 03Which 1980s tough guy, famous for 'I pity the fool', had his own Quaker Oats cereal?
- AHulk Hogan
- BMr. T
- CChuck Norris
- DSylvester Stallone
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Mr. T
Quaker Oats sold Mr. T Cereal from 1984 to 1993, riding the star's fame from The A-Team and Rocky III; the sweetened pieces were moulded in the shape of the letter T.
Q 04Which Post cereal added dinosaur-shaped marshmallows to the Flintstones line?
- ADino Pebbles
- BCocoa Pebbles Marshmallow
- CFruity Dino Bites
- DStone Age Crunch
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Dino Pebbles
Dino Pebbles joined Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles in 1990, pairing sweetened rice cereal with purple, yellow, orange and green dinosaur marshmallows modelled on Dino; it was gone by 1993.
Q 05Which discontinued General Mills product let kids draw with fruit goo on hot instant oats?
- AMagic Spoon Oatmeal
- BInstant Oatmeal Creations
- COatmeal Swirlers
- DFruity Loops Oatmeal
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Oatmeal Swirlers
Oatmeal Swirlers paired a packet of instant oats with a pouch of sticky fruit goo for drawing faces and shapes on top — "give it a swirl!" — and did not survive the decade.
Q 06Which chain lent its name to a Ralston cereal with pieces shaped like rings, holes and twists?
- ADunkin' Donuts
- BBurger King
- CMcDonald's
- DKrispy Kreme
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Dunkin' Donuts
Ralston's Dunkin' Donuts Cereal arrived in 1988 in Glazed Style and Chocolate, and its ads had Fred the Baker making the world's smallest donuts by the hundreds.
Q 07Which film franchise got a Ralston cereal with musical-note marshmallows?
- ATeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- BBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- CHoney, I Shrunk the Kids
- DBack to the Future
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Ralston's Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal paired cinnamon oat squares with musical-note marshmallows and was sold as 'a most awesome breakfast adventure'.
Q 08Which hexagonal cereal, meant to be eaten dry by the handful, confused shoppers in the cereal aisle?
- ASnack'n Crisp
- BFingos
- CHexagon Hoops
- DMunchy Oats
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Fingos
General Mills launched Fingos in 1993 in honey toasted oat and cinnamon, backed by a huge ad campaign, but shoppers could not tell whether it was cereal or a snack and it was gone by 1994.
Q 09Which sitcom character got his own strawberry and banana flavoured Ralston cereal?
- AScreech Powers
- BCarlton Banks
- CBalki Bartokomous
- DSteve Urkel
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Steve Urkel
Steve Urkel's cereal, Urkel-Os, came from Ralston in 1991 at the height of Urkel-mania, alongside an Urkel pull-string doll.
Q 10Which film got a Ralston tie-in cereal with pieces shaped like skulls, headless dolls and a hand?
- ABeetlejuice
- BHocus Pocus
- CThe Addams Family
- DDeath Becomes Her
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The Addams Family
The hand was Thing, and select boxes of The Addams Family cereal came shrink-wrapped with a small flashlight shaped like Lurch, Uncle Fester or Cousin Itt.
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