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Q 01Which brand's slogan is 'Just Do It'?
Nike
Between 1988 and 1998 the company went from 18% to 43% of the North American sport-shoe market.
Q 02The 'Just Do It' line was adapted from whose last words?
A death row inmate's
Gary Gilmore said 'let's do it' before his execution; Dan Wieden dropped the first word so he would not owe him a credit.
Q 03In which year was that slogan coined at an agency meeting?
1988
Reebok was chasing the aerobics boom at the time; the reply was a deliberately hard-edged campaign aimed at everyone.
Q 04Which company used the slogan 'Think different' from 1997 to 2002?
Apple
It came from the Los Angeles office of TBWA\\Chiat\\Day, the agency behind the 1984 Super Bowl ad.
Q 05Which agency created 'Think different'?
TBWA Chiat Day
BBDO had pitched a rival line, 'We're back', which Steve Jobs called stupid.
Q 06Who narrated the television version of the 'Crazy Ones' advert that Apple actually aired?
Richard Dreyfuss
Two versions were cut, one voiced by Jobs himself; he chose the other on the morning of 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
Goodby Silverstein & Partners wrote it, and staff there initially thought the line was lazy and ungrammatical.
Q 09Which future blockbuster director shot the first 'Got Milk?' commercial?
Michael Bay
The spot was called 'Aaron Burr' and turned on a man unable to answer a radio question with his mouth full.
Q 10What line replaced that campaign nationally in 2014?
Milk Life
The trademark survived and is still licensed for merchandise, and the campaign continued in California.
Q 11Which chain introduced the catchphrase about a missing patty in 1984?
Wendy's
The point was to compare its square patty with the giant buns of the Big Mac and the Whopper.
Q 12Which actress delivered that line in the 'Fluffy Bun' commercial?
Clara Peller
The director wanted 'Where is all the beef?', but emphysema made the longer line impossible for her to say.
Q 13What longer version did the director originally want the actress to say?
Where is all the beef?
An earlier version with a middle-aged man saying 'Thanks, but where's the beef?' had gone nowhere.
Q 21Which sweet promised it 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand'?
M&M's
The tagline arrived in 1949, and a black M was printed on each shell the following year.
Q 22In which year did the M print on those sweets change from black to white?
1954
The same year brought the peanut variety, which has never left the range since.
Q 23Which car rental firm turned being number two into the slogan 'We Try Harder'?
Avis
It was adopted in 1962 under CEO Robert Townsend and survived fifty years before being retired.
Q 24What replaced 'We Try Harder' when Avis rebranded in 2012?
Q 14Who wrote 'A Diamond Is Forever' for De Beers in 1947?
Frances Gerety
A trade magazine named it the best advertising slogan of the century in 2000.
Q 15Which agency employed the copywriter behind that diamond slogan?
N. W. Ayer & Son
The campaign successfully tied a mined stone to the idea of lifelong commitment, and demand followed.
Q 16Which cereal do Snap, Crackle and Pop advertise?
Rice Krispies
Their names are onomatopoeia lifted straight from a radio advert about the noise in the bowl.
Q 17Who designed those three mascots in the early 1930s?
Vernon Grant
The first of them appeared on packaging in 1933; the other two were added afterwards.
Q 18What headgear does Snap wear?
A chef's toque
Crackle gets the sleeping cap and Pop the drum major's shako, though the hats sometimes swap.
Q 19Which cereal has been sold as the 'Breakfast of Champions'?
Wheaties
The link to sport began in 1927 with a billboard at a Minneapolis minor league ballpark.
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.
It's Your Space
The original line worked precisely because it admitted the company was second to Hertz.
Q 25Which brand launched the slogan 'Beanz Meanz' in 1967?
Heinz
Its author, Maurice Drake, said it was written over two pints in a pub in Mornington Crescent.
Q 26Where did Maurice Drake say he wrote that famous British slogan?
In a pub over two pints
It went on to become one of the best-known advertising lines in the United Kingdom.
Q 27Which cigarette brand did Leo Burnett rescue with a cowboy campaign from 1954?
Marlboro
Before that it was pitched at women under the slogan 'Mild as May'.
Q 28What slogan had that brand used before the cowboy arrived?
Mild as May
The rebrand from feminine to masculine took a matter of months.
Q 29Who created Tony the Tiger in 1952?
Eugene Kolkey
He named the tiger after a colleague at Leo Burnett, Raymond Anthony Wells.
Q 30Who voiced 'They're gr-r-reat!' for five decades?
Thurl Ravenscroft
He took over almost immediately after the first adverts aired with a different voice.