50 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
Paul Winchell voiced the owl; a Purdue licking machine later averaged 365 licks and Michigan researchers counted 412.
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
Smith & Company created them in London in the 1780s; the collectible tins arrived in the 1920s.
Q 06Which candy was known in 1980s and 90s ads as 'The Freshmaker'?
Mentos
The campy commercials were parodied by the Foo Fighters; the mints also 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. Sweet. Gone.' Inventor Frank Galatolie's original name was dropped in the 1980s.
Q 08Which cartoon character warned 'Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger' from 1988 to 2001?
Bart Simpson
The bar's name was picked in a public contest in 1923; 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
Each pattie once had to pass a 'snap test', breaking cleanly in the middle, at the York, Pennsylvania factory.
Q 10Who wrote 'Have a break... have a Kit Kat' in 1957?
Donald Gilles
The bar began life in 1935 as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp; in Japan its name sounds like 'kitto katsu', 'surely win'.
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 21Life Savers' early marketing urged shoppers with the line 'Still only 5 cents'. Who bought the recipe from inventor Clarence Crane for $2,900?
Edward Noble
Noble put the rolls beside cash registers; the five-flavour roll arrived in 1935 and Wint-O-Green ones spark when crushed.
Q 22The 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 233 Musketeers got its name because the original 1932 pack contained what?
Three flavoured pieces
Q 14Which New York agency created Skittles' 'Taste the Rainbow' campaign?
D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles
Skittles were first made in Britain in the 1970s; lime was swapped for green apple in 2013 and brought back in 2021.
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
The 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
The cups sold for a penny at first; Reese's is now America's best-selling candy brand at $3.1 billion a year.
Q 18Which chocolate bar has boasted since 1928 of containing 'a glass and a half'?
Cadbury Dairy Milk
Its 2007 drumming-gorilla ad came from an in-house unit 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
The name comes from a malted-milk drink, not the galaxy; the American Milky Way is a different bar with caramel.
Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla; wartime sugar rationing left only chocolate, later sold as 'Big on chocolate!'
Q 24Which sports commentator wrote the 1970s slogan 'Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water'?
Murray Walker
Opal Fruits became Starburst in the UK in 1998; the modern line is 'Unexplainably Juicy'.
Q 25Which surrealist painter designed the Chupa Chups logo in 1969?
Salvador Dalí
The Spanish lollipop's name comes from chupar, 'to suck', and it was the first candy sent to the Mir space station in 1995.
Q 26Werther'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 27Which candy's box has two compartments so each side holds a different flavour?
Nerds
Launched under the Willy Wonka brand in the 1980s, the brand's Gummy Clusters pushed sales past $500 million by 2024.
Q 28Big League Chew, the shredded gum in a pouch, was created by players from which minor-league team?
Portland Mavericks
Pitcher Rob Nelson invented it and Jim Bouton pitched it to Wrigley as an alternative to chewing tobacco; a billion pouches have sold.
Q 29Tic 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 30According to its maker, the Baby Ruth bar was named after whom?
President Cleveland's daughter
Sceptics suspected Curtiss just wanted to avoid paying the slugger; in 1923 the company parachuted bars over Pittsburgh from a plane.