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164 free Candy trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
59 free candy trivia questions with answers. This candy quiz is written so kids of about 8 to 12 can play along with the grown-ups: what the little 'm' and 's' stand for, why cotton candy was invented by a dentist, which candy is named after a racehorse, what is hiding inside a Kinder egg, how many licks it takes to reach the centre of a Tootsie Pop, and where chocolate really comes from. It covers the sweets in every trick-or-treat bag and lunchbox, from M&M's, Skittles, Snickers and Kit Kat to gummy bears, Pez, Peeps, candy corn and jawbreakers, plus a few history and science questions about chocolate and chewing gum. Use it for a party, a classroom treat, a Halloween round or a car ride; every answer comes with a one-line explanation. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, mostly Wikipedia, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01What company is known for producing the popular chocolate candies M&M's?
Mars, Inc.
Mars, Inc., and the M's stand for Mars and Murrie: Bruce Murrie, son of the Hershey president, was a partner whose company supplied the chocolate during wartime rationing. Mars bought him out in 1949.
Q 02Chocolate comes from a tree whose scientific name, Theobroma, means what in Greek?
Food of the gods
Food of the gods: the name joins the Greek theos, 'god', and broma, 'food'. Among the Aztecs the tree's beans were spent as money as well as ground into a ritual drink.
Q 03Which candy bar was sold in the UK as 'Marathon' until 1990?
Snickers
Snickers was sold as Marathon in Britain and Ireland until 1990, when the name changed to match the rest of the world; a retro Marathon edition returned to Morrisons for three months in 2019.
Q 04Which American candy, invented in 1912 as a 'summer candy' that would not melt, comes as a roll of rings?
Life Savers
Life Savers, named for the ring-style life preserver they resemble. Clarence Crane, a chocolate maker, invented them because chocolate sales slumped in the heat; his son was the poet Hart Crane.
Q 05Under what name was cotton candy sold when it debuted at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition?
Fairy Floss
Fairy Floss was the name on the boxes at the St. Louis fair, where the new machine-spun treat was a hit; Americans switched to 'cotton candy' in the 1920s, but Australians still call it fairy floss.
Q 06Which German city's marzipan has held the EU's protected geographical status since 1996?
Lübeck
Lübeck: a local legend dates marzipan to 1407, when a grain shortage is said to have had the city's bakers make 'bread' from stored almonds. Its best-known maker, Niederegger, has traded there since 1806.
Q 07Which Pevensie child betrays the others for the White Witch's enchanted Turkish delight in the Narnia stories?
Edmund
Edmund: the Witch plies him with the enchanted sweet and persuades him to bring his brother and sisters to her, promising to make him a prince.
Q 08Which flavor was among Jelly Belly's original eight gourmet jelly beans?
Very Cherry
Very Cherry was one of the eight flavours on sale in 1976, when David Klein first sold the beans from an ice cream parlour in Alhambra, California; Buttered Popcorn did not arrive until 1989.
Q 09Pez, whose name is clipped from Pfefferminz, the German for peppermint, was first sold in 1927 in which country?
Austria
Austria: Eduard Haas III launched it in Vienna as a breath mint for adults and an alternative to smoking, which is why the first dispensers looked like cigarette lighters. The character heads came later, for American children.
Q 10What nut sits whole at the centre of a Ferrero Rocher?
Hazelnut
Hazelnut: a whole roasted one sits inside each wafer shell. The nut is the firm's signature because cocoa was scarce in post-war Italy, so its founder stretched his chocolate with local hazelnuts.
Q 11Which colour of M&M's vanished from the bag between 1976 and 1987 after a scare over a food dye?
Red
Red M&M's were pulled in 1976 during the panic over Red Dye No. 2, even though the candies never contained it. Orange took their place, and red only came back in 1987.
Q 12The Snickers bar was named after what?
The family's favourite horse
The family's favourite horse: the name has nothing to do with laughing. The Mars family took it from one of their own horses when the bar went on sale in 1930.
Q 13What three things are inside a Snickers bar under the chocolate?
Nougat, caramel and peanuts
Q 21The daisy-shaped Chupa Chups lollipop logo was designed in 1969 by which famous artist?
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí drew the logo for founder Enric Bernat, who had put sweets on sticks because children 'got their hands sticky and ran into trouble with their parents'.
Q 22What flavour gives Red Hots candies their heat?
Cinnamon
Cinnamon: its bite comes from cinnamaldehyde, the pungent main compound in the bark's oil, and the little red candies have traded on that burn since the 1930s.
Q 23Tootsie Rolls are billed as the first penny candy in America to be what?
Individually wrapped
Individually wrapped: each chewy roll came in its own paper wrapper, and the maker says every batch still includes a little of the previous day's, a step it calls graining.
Nougat, caramel and peanuts make it a filling bar, and the adverts lean on that: a 2010 Super Bowl spot with Betty White launched the line 'You're not you when you're hungry'.
Q 14A standard Kit Kat is made of pieces called what?
Fingers
Fingers, and the snap is the point: a Rowntree's factory worker had asked for 'a chocolate bar that a man could take to work'. In Japan the name sounds like 'kitto katsu', 'surely win', so it is given before exams.
Q 15Which chocolate bar's advertising slogan, used since 1958, begins 'Have a break'?
Kit Kat
Kit Kat: 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat' has run in British TV adverts since 1958, and the bar's owner later spent ten years in court against Mars trying to trademark just the first three words.
Q 16Gummy bears were invented in Germany in 1922 by the founder of which candy company?
Haribo
Haribo: Hans Riegel founded the company in Bonn in 1920 and launched the Gummibärchen, first sold as the Tanzbär ('dancing bear'), in 1922, inspired by trained bears at fairs.
Q 17Cotton candy's spinning machine was co-invented in 1897 by William Morrison, who worked as what?
A dentist
A dentist: Morrison built the machine with Nashville confectioner John Wharton and showed it off at the 1904 St. Louis fair. The man whose 1920s patent named it 'cotton candy' was a dentist too.
Q 18Which ring-shaped mint did Rowntree's launch in 1948?
Polo
Polo: 'the mint with the hole' was first made at Rowntree's York factory in 1948, and company legend says the name comes from 'polar', for its cool, fresh taste.
Q 19Which British sweet, launched by Rowntree's in 1937, has a sugar shell around milk chocolate?
Smarties
Smarties are older than their name: Rowntree's of York had sold the same sugar-shelled sweets as 'Chocolate Beans' since the 1880s and renamed them in 1937. The orange ones are orange-flavoured.
Q 20In which 1939 film does the Lollipop Guild welcome the heroine with a giant lollipop?
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz: three Munchkins of the Lollipop Guild greet Dorothy with one. The word is older than the stick: 'lollipop' dates from the 1780s, perhaps from 'lolly', a dialect word for the tongue.
Q 24Which animal in the Tootsie Pop ad bites the lollipop after just three licks?
The owl
The owl: Mr. Owl crunches after three licks in the advert, first aired in 1970. Purdue students later built a licking machine to settle the question, and it averaged more than 360 licks.
Q 25Candy corn was originally sold under what farm-themed name?
Chicken Feed
Chicken Feed: the Goelitz company (later Jelly Belly) sold candy corn under that name from about 1898, with a rooster on the box, to a largely rural America.
Q 26What is the little paper strip sticking out of the top of a Hershey's Kiss called?
A plume
A plume: the paper strip, a registered trademark, was added in 1921 when machine wrapping replaced the hand-wrapping used since the Kiss's 1907 debut.
Q 27Which coconut-filled chocolate bar, launched in 1951, has long been advertised as 'the taste of paradise'?
Bounty
Bounty splits opinion: in 2022 Mars trialled Celebrations tubs with no Bounty bars at all, after 39 percent of the people it polled said they hated them.
Q 28The Milky Way bar, first sold in 1923, was named after what?
A malted milkshake
A malted milkshake, not the galaxy: Frank Mars wanted a bar that tasted like the malted milk drinks popular at the time, which is why its nougat is malt-flavoured.
Q 29The 3 Musketeers bar got its name because the original 1932 pack held three pieces in which flavours?
Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla
Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla came three to a pack until wartime sugar restrictions and rising costs killed off the strawberry and vanilla pieces, leaving only the chocolate one.
Q 30The triangle shape of a Toblerone bar is said to be inspired by which mountain?
The Matterhorn
The Matterhorn: the peaks are popularly linked to the mountain near Zermatt, though Theodor Tobler's sons said a pyramid of dancers at the Folies Bergère inspired them. Toblerone dates from 1908.