Famous Slogans Trivia
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Q 01Which brand's slogan is 'Just Do It'?
Nike
Nike adopted 'Just Do It', written by Dan Wieden of the agency Wieden+Kennedy; over the following decade Nike's share of the North American sport-shoe market rose from 18% to 43%.
Q 02The 'Just Do It' line was adapted from whose last words?
A death row inmate's
The line echoes 'Let's do it', the last words of death row inmate Gary Gilmore before his 1977 execution in Utah; Dan Wieden of Wieden+Kennedy reworked them for Nike.
Q 03In which year was Nike's 'Just Do It' slogan coined?
1988
1988 was the year, and the reply to Reebok's aerobics-era lead was a deliberately hard-edged campaign aimed at everyone.
Q 04Which company used the slogan 'Think different' from 1997 to 2002?
Apple
Apple ran 'Think different' from 1997 to 2002, launching it with the 'Crazy Ones' commercial in September 1997, shortly after Steve Jobs returned to the company.
Q 05Which agency created 'Think different'?
TBWA Chiat Day
TBWA Chiat Day, under creative director Lee Clow, created 'Think different' in 1997; rival BBDO had pitched the line 'We're back', which Steve Jobs rejected.
Q 06Who narrated the television version of the 'Crazy Ones' advert that Apple actually aired?
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss narrated the version Apple aired; a second cut voiced by Steve Jobs himself was recorded, but Jobs chose the Dreyfuss read just before the first broadcast.
Q 07Whose families did Steve Jobs personally call to secure likeness rights for that campaign?
Jim Henson's and John F. Kennedy's
He also flew to New York to ask Yoko Ono in person.
Q 08Who paid for the dairy campaign of 1993 that asked a two-word question?
The California Milk Processor Board
The California Milk Processor Board, funded by the state's milk processors, commissioned 'Got Milk?' in 1993 from Goodby Silverstein & Partners, whose staff at first found the line lazy and ungrammatical.
Q 09Which future blockbuster director shot the first 'Got Milk?' commercial?
Michael Bay
Michael Bay, later director of Armageddon and Transformers, shot the 1993 'Aaron Burr' spot, in which a history buff with a mouthful of peanut-butter sandwich cannot answer a radio trivia question.
Q 10Which line replaced 'Got Milk?' as the national milk slogan in 2014?
Milk Life
'Milk Life' replaced 'Got Milk?' nationally in 2014 when the Milk Processor Education Program retired the older line, though 'Got Milk?' lived on in California.
Q 11Which chain introduced the catchphrase about a missing patty in 1984?
Wendy's
Wendy's launched 'Where's the beef?' in 1984 to mock rivals' oversized buns and small patties, contrasting them with its own square hamburger; the line became a national catchphrase.
Q 12Which actress delivered 'Where's the beef?' in the 1984 'Fluffy Bun' commercial?
Clara Peller
Clara Peller, a Chicago manicurist in her eighties, delivered 'Where's the beef?' in the 1984 'Fluffy Bun' spot directed by Joe Sedelmaier and became an instant celebrity.
Q 13Which longer line did the director originally want the 'Fluffy Bun' actress to say?
Where is all the beef?
Q 21Which sweet promised in a 1949 tagline that it 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand'?
M&M's
M&M's introduced the tagline in 1949, and a black M was printed on each shell the following year.
Q 22In which year did the M printed on M&M's change from black to white?
1954
The printed M switched from black to white in 1954, the same year Peanut M&M's were introduced.
Q 23Which car rental firm turned being number two in its market into the slogan 'We Try Harder', adopted in 1962?
Avis
Avis adopted 'We Try Harder' in 1962 under CEO Robert Townsend, and the line survived fifty years before being retired.
Director Joe Sedelmaier scripted 'Where is all the beef?', but the actress's emphysema left her unable to manage the longer line, so the shortened 'Where's the beef?' was used.
Q 14Who wrote 'A Diamond Is Forever' for De Beers in 1947?
Frances Gerety
Frances Gerety, a Philadelphia advertising copywriter, jotted down 'A Diamond Is Forever' late one night in 1947; Advertising Age named it the best slogan of the twentieth century in 1999.
Q 15Which agency employed the copywriter who wrote 'A Diamond Is Forever'?
N. W. Ayer & Son
N. W. Ayer & Son, the Philadelphia agency that had handled the De Beers account since 1938, employed the copywriter who produced 'A Diamond Is Forever' in 1947.
Q 16Which cereal do Snap, Crackle and Pop advertise?
Rice Krispies
Snap, Crackle and Pop are the mascots of Kellogg's Rice Krispies; their names come from a 1932 radio advert describing the noise the cereal makes in a bowl of milk.
Q 17Who designed those three mascots in the early 1930s?
Vernon Grant
Illustrator Vernon Grant designed the gnome-like trio for Kellogg's in 1933, when Snap first appeared on the packaging alone; Crackle and Pop were added later.
Q 18What headgear does Snap wear?
A chef's toque
Snap wears a tall white chef's toque; his brothers are easy to tell apart because Crackle wears a red-and-white striped sleeping cap and Pop a drum major's shako.
Q 19Which cereal has been sold as the 'Breakfast of Champions'?
Wheaties
Wheaties, the General Mills wheat-flake cereal, has carried the 'Breakfast of Champions' slogan since the 1930s, when it began sponsoring baseball broadcasts and putting athletes on its boxes.
Q 20In which year did that cereal begin advertising at a Minneapolis ballpark?
1927
By 1939, 46 of the 51 players at the baseball All-Star Game were endorsing it.
Q 24What slogan replaced 'We Try Harder' in 2012?
It's Your Space
'It's Your Space' replaced 'We Try Harder' in 2012, after fifty years, as the company shifted its pitch from underdog effort to the customer's experience.
Q 25Which agency's copywriter Maurice Drake wrote 'Beanz Meanz Heinz' in 1967?
Young & Rubicam
Maurice Drake, a copywriter at the London office of Young & Rubicam, wrote 'Beanz Meanz Heinz' in 1967; the rhyming line ran for decades and became one of Britain's best-known slogans.
Q 26Where did Maurice Drake say he wrote 'Beanz Meanz Heinz'?
In a pub over two pints
Maurice Drake said he wrote 'Beanz Meanz Heinz' in a pub over two pints, at The Victoria in Mornington Crescent, London, in 1967.
Q 27Which cigarette brand did Leo Burnett rescue with a cowboy campaign from 1954?
Marlboro
Marlboro, originally sold as a women's filter cigarette, was relaunched in 1954 with Leo Burnett's rugged cowboy imagery and went on to become the world's best-selling cigarette brand.
Q 28Under which slogan was Marlboro originally pitched to women smokers?
Mild as May
'Mild as May' was Marlboro's slogan from its 1924 launch as a women's cigarette, complete with a red band on the filter tip to hide lipstick marks.
Q 29Who created Tony the Tiger in 1952?
Eugene Kolkey
Eugene Kolkey, an art director at the Leo Burnett agency, created Tony the Tiger in 1952 for the launch of Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes; Tony became the cereal's sole mascot after early boxes had featured other animals too.
Q 30Who voiced 'They're gr-r-reat!' for five decades?
Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Ravenscroft, the bass singer who also performed 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch', voiced Tony the Tiger's 'They're gr-r-reat!' from the 1950s until his death in 2005.