Candy Slogans Trivia
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49 free Candy Slogans trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free candy slogans trivia questions with answers. This candy slogans trivia quiz matches the taglines to the sweets: which bar told you that you're not you when you're hungry, which mints were curiously strong, which candy said sometimes you feel like a nut, and which cartoon character told everyone not to lay a finger on his Butterfinger. It also asks who wrote the slogans, which agencies made them famous, and the origin stories behind brands from M&M's and Kit Kat to Pez, Haribo, Chupa Chups and Peeps. It works for office trivia, family game nights and Halloween parties: the easy questions can be answered by anyone who has watched TV since the 1980s, and the hard ones will test the ad-history buffs. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia and brand sources before publishing.
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Q 01Which candy bar's 2010 Betty White ad launched 'You're not you when you're hungry'?
Snickers
BBDO credited the campaign with lifting the bar from seventh to the world's best-selling candy bar; an earlier line was 'Hungry? Why wait?'
Q 02The candy bar launched in 1930 that later starred Betty White was named after what?
The maker's favourite horse
Introduced in 1930, it was sold as Marathon in Britain and Ireland until 1990.
Q 03In the famous 1970 Tootsie Pop commercial, how many licks does Mr. Owl take before biting?
Three
Mr. Owl takes three licks, then bites. Paul Winchell voiced him; a Purdue licking machine later averaged 364 licks and a University of Michigan machine 411.
Q 04Which two candy bars were sold with 'Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't'?
Almond Joy and Mounds
Almond Joy has almonds under milk chocolate; Mounds is dark chocolate with no nuts. Hershey bought both in 1988.
Q 05Which mints are 'The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong'?
Altoids
Altoids tins carry 'The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong'; Smith & Company created the mints in London in the 1780s, and the collectible tins arrived in the 1920s.
Q 06Which candy was known in 1980s and 90s ads as 'The Freshmaker'?
Mentos
Mentos' campy commercials were parodied by the Foo Fighters, and the mints famously erupt when dropped in Diet Coke.
Q 07Which candy, originally called Mars Men, has a three-word slogan tracing its flavour from tart to sugary to gone?
Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids' slogan is 'Sour. Sweet. Gone.' Inventor Frank Galatolie's original name, Mars Men, was dropped in the mid-1980s to ride the Cabbage Patch Kids craze.
Q 08Which cartoon character warned 'Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger' from 1988 to 2001?
Bart Simpson
Bart Simpson fronted the ads; the bar's name was picked in a public contest in 1923, and its coating contains no cocoa butter so cannot legally be called chocolate.
Q 09'Get the sensation' has been the tagline of which mint-chocolate candy since the 1970s?
York Peppermint Pattie
York Peppermint Pattie has used 'Get the sensation' since 1975; at the York, Pennsylvania factory each pattie once had to pass a 'snap test', breaking cleanly in the middle.
Q 10Who wrote 'Have a break... have a Kit Kat' in 1957?
Donald Gilles
Donald Gilles of the J. Walter Thompson agency wrote 'Have a break... have a Kit Kat' in 1957; the bar began life in 1935 as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.
Q 11Which company makes Kit Kat in the United States under a licence dating from 1970?
Hershey
Nestlé controls the brand everywhere else after buying Rowntree's in 1988; Japan has seen more than 300 flavours.
Q 12The two Ms in M&M's stand for Forrest Mars and the son of which chocolate company's president?
Hershey
Bruce Murrie was the son of Hershey's president; the 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand' line arrived in 1949 and red M&M's vanished from 1976 to 1987 over a dye scare.
Q 13In a 1995 consumer vote, which colour replaced tan in the M&M's mix?
Blue
Blue took 54% of the vote; the animated spokescandies Red and Yellow debuted the same year.
Q 21The Kisses' longest-running commercial, first aired in 1989, shows the chocolates doing what?
Playing Christmas bells
The paper plume was added in 1921 and Hershey trademarked the foil-wrapped cone in 1924.
Q 223 Musketeers got its name because the original 1932 pack contained what?
Three flavoured pieces
Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla; wartime sugar rationing left only chocolate, later sold as 'Big on chocolate!'
Q 23Which sports commentator wrote the 1970s slogan 'Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water'?
Murray Walker
Murray Walker, an advertising executive long before his Formula One fame, wrote 'Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water'; Opal Fruits became Starburst in the UK in 1998.
Q 14Which agency created Skittles' 'Taste the Rainbow' campaign in 1994?
D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles
D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles created 'Taste the Rainbow' for Skittles in 1994; the sweets were first made in Britain in 1974, and lime was swapped for green apple in 2013.
Q 15The 2012 'Pick a Side' campaign for a twin-stick chocolate bar invented a rivalry between what?
Left and right bars
The name means 'twin sticks'; the bar was sold as Raider in mainland Europe until 1991.
Q 16'Two great tastes that taste great together' sold which candy in the 1970s and 80s?
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups ads showed strangers colliding with peanut butter and chocolate; the 1990s line was 'There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's'.
Q 17H. B. Reese, who created the peanut butter cup in 1928, had previously worked for whom?
Milton Hershey
H. B. Reese had worked for Milton Hershey, starting on a Hershey dairy farm, before launching his own candy business in Hershey, Pennsylvania; the cups sold for a penny at first.
Q 18Which chocolate bar has boasted since 1928 of containing 'a glass and a half'?
Cadbury Dairy Milk
Cadbury Dairy Milk has carried the 'glass and a half' boast since 1928; its 2007 drumming-gorilla ad came from an in-house label called Glass And A Half Full Productions.
Q 19Which bar's classic slogan promised to help you 'work, rest and play'?
Mars
Forrest Mars first made it in Slough in 1932, basing it on his father's American Milky Way.
Q 20Which British bar was sold as 'the sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite'?
Milky Way
Milky Way ran the 'eat between meals without ruining your appetite' line in Britain; the name comes from a malted-milk drink, not the galaxy, and the American Milky Way is a different, caramel-filled bar.
Q 24Which surrealist painter designed the Chupa Chups logo in 1969?
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí sketched the daisy-shaped Chupa Chups logo in 1969; the Spanish lollipop's name comes from chupar, 'to suck', and it was billed as the first lollipop in space aboard Mir in 1995.
Q 25Werther's Original is named after what?
A town in Germany
Storck was founded in Werther, Westphalia, in 1903; the ads famously show a grandfather sharing the caramels with a boy.
Q 26Which Willy Wonka-brand candy comes in a box with two compartments, so each side holds a different flavour?
Nerds
Nerds, launched by the Willy Wonka Candy Company in 1983, came in a dual-compartment box so each side held a different flavour, such as grape and strawberry.
Q 27Big League Chew, the shredded gum in a pouch, was created by players from which minor-league team?
Portland Mavericks
Portland Mavericks pitcher Rob Nelson invented the shredded gum in 1977, and teammate Jim Bouton pitched it to Wrigley's Amurol unit as an alternative to chewing tobacco; it launched in 1980.
Q 28Tic Tac mints were named after what?
The click of the box lid
Ferrero launched them in 1969 as Refreshing Mints; the ads stress they have fewer than two calories.
Q 29According to its maker, the Baby Ruth bar was named after whom?
President Cleveland's daughter
Curtiss said Baby Ruth honoured Ruth Cleveland, President Grover Cleveland's daughter; sceptics suspected a dodge to avoid paying Babe Ruth, and in 1923 the company parachuted bars over Pittsburgh from a plane.
Q 30The letters in PEZ come from which German word?
Pfefferminz
PEZ takes its letters from Pfefferminz, German for peppermint; invented in Vienna in 1927 as an adult breath mint, it got its dispenser in 1949 and character heads in 1955.