Girl Scout Cookie Trivia
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78 free Girl Scout Cookie trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Girl Scout Cookie trivia questions with answers. Girl Scout Cookies are a $800 million business run by a million girls, and almost nobody who buys a box knows the history behind it. This quiz covers it all: the 1917 bake sale in a Muskogee high school cafeteria, the 1922 recipe that cost 26 cents to make, the first commercial boxes in Philadelphia, the wartime calendars, the two licensed bakeries and why your Samoas might be someone else's Caramel deLites, Thin Mints' dominance, the cookies that came and went, and the girls who sold 18,000 and then 32,000 boxes. It starts with questions any customer can answer (the best seller, when cookie season is) and works up to trivia for troop leaders: how many cookies were in a 1943 box, which cookie was online-only for one season, who owns Little Brownie Bakers, and how much of the money stays with the council. Free to use for a troop meeting, a cookie booth game or a bake-sale quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and Girl Scouts of the USA's own history and FAQ pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01At which 2016 awards show did host Chris Rock help Girl Scouts sell cookies to the stars?
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards audience handed over $65,243, by Rock's count, to his daughters' troop as it worked the aisles; the stunt opened the hundredth-anniversary year of scouts selling cookies.
Q 02Patch Pals, announced for the 2027 season, are the first Girl Scout cookies made for which animals?
Dogs
Dogs get soft-baked, blueberry muffin-flavored treats developed with BARK, the company behind BarkBox; the name comes from the four scout 'patch' designs baked into them.
Q 03What kind of cookie was the simple recipe that a Girl Scout magazine printed in 1922 for troops to sell?
Sugar cookie
Sugar cookie ingredients for six or seven dozen cost 26 to 36 cents, the article reckoned, and troops could charge 25 to 30 cents a dozen, so one batch brought in several times its cost.
Q 04Trefoils, the classic shortbread cookies, are baked in the shape of what?
The Girl Scout emblem
The Girl Scout emblem is a trefoil, meaning 'three leaves', one for each part of the Girl Scout Promise; New York's scouts bought their own trefoil cutting die for bakery cookies back in 1935.
Q 05In which 1991 film does a girl ask whether Girl Scout cookies are 'made from real Girl Scouts'?
The Addams Family
The Addams Family has Wednesday selling lemonade when a scout asks if it is made from real lemons and offers to buy a cup if Wednesday buys her cookies; the deadpan question is Wednesday's reply.
Q 06Before commercial bakeries took over in the 1930s, who baked the cookies that Girl Scout troops sold?
The girls and their mothers
The girls and their mothers baked at home, the mothers serving as 'technical advisers', then packed the cookies in wax paper bags sealed with a sticker to sell door to door.
Q 07Which company was the first commercial baker licensed by Girl Scouts of the USA in 1936?
Keebler-Weyl
Keebler-Weyl had baked for Philadelphia's scouts since 1934, when theirs became the first council to hire a commercial bakery; it is the same Keebler later famous for its cookie-baking elves.
Q 08Why did Girl Scouts begin selling calendars during World War II?
Sugar, flour and butter ran short
Sugar, flour and butter ran short in wartime, so the first Girl Scout calendars went on sale in 1944 to keep troop funds coming in; by 1948 the cookies were back, with 29 bakers licensed.
Q 09In 2018, which chain began selling coffee flavored like Girl Scout cookies?
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts licensed three cookie-inspired flavors, among them its first ever peanut butter coffee, and some shops invited local troops inside at weekends to sell the real thing.
Q 10In 1951 the cookies came in three varieties: Sandwich, Shortbread and what?
Chocolate Mints
Chocolate Mints are today's Thin Mints; the other two were a filled sandwich cookie and the plain shortbread that lives on as Trefoils.
Q 11Do-si-dos cookies share their name with a move from which kind of dancing?
Square dancing
Square dancing's do-si-do has two partners circle each other back to back, and the word is a worn-down form of the French dos-à-dos, 'back to back'.
Q 12Samoas are chocolate-striped cookies covered in which toasted ingredient?
Coconut
Coconut and chocolate stripes also turn up on Coconut Dreams, a supermarket cookie from the corporate family of the Samoas bakery; out of the box, one reviewer wrote, you could not tell the two apart.
Q 13Toffee-tastic cookies carry a certification seal on the box for being free of what?
Gluten
Gluten is kept out even though the same bakery handles wheat: by the Girl Scouts' account the line is cleaned between runs and tested, and an outside certifier, NSF, puts its seal on the box.
Q 21Sparkables, announced for the 2027 season, are billed as the first Girl Scout cookie made to be what?
Allergy-friendly
Allergy-friendly here means baked in a facility that avoids the nine major food allergens; the Girl Scouts say scouts themselves had pushed for such a cookie, which was developed with the brand Partake.
Q 22Adventurefuls, launched in 2022, are brownie-inspired cookies topped with what?
Caramel-flavored creme and sea salt
Caramel-flavored creme and sea salt top a cookie that both licensed bakeries launched together in 2022, so unlike Samoas or Tagalongs it goes by one name wherever it is sold.
Q 23Which cookie launched as an online-only, limited-supply item in 2023 and was dropped that year?
Q 14What does ABC Bakers call the cookie that Little Brownie Bakers sells as Samoas?
Caramel deLites
Caramel deLites are no straight copy: ABC finishes its version with a milkier chocolate where Samoas get a darker coating, and the two bakers measure out their ingredients differently.
Q 15What does ABC Bakers call the cookie that Little Brownie Bakers sells as Tagalongs?
Peanut Butter Patties
Peanut Butter Patties list sugar as their first ingredient, while Tagalongs list peanut butter first, so the cookie named for its filling is the one that carries less of it.
Q 16Do-si-dos, also sold as Peanut Butter Sandwiches, are peanut butter filling between what kind of cookies?
Oatmeal
Oatmeal cookies hold the filling in a cookie that was long one of just three varieties every licensed baker had to make, which is why it turns up whichever bakery supplies a council.
Q 17Which Girl Scout cookie is the best seller nationwide?
Thin Mints
Thin Mints top the Girl Scouts' own ranking, yet they come in two versions: one bakery's is crunchier and mintier, the other's richer, with a smoother chocolate coating.
Q 18Where did Girl Scout Cookie Championship, a 2020 baking contest, air?
Food Network
Food Network had actress Alyson Hannigan host as bakers turned the cookies into over-the-top desserts; the winner got an outdoor adventure and a year's supply of cookies.
Q 19In 2021, how did a tech company deliver Girl Scout cookies to doorsteps in one Virginia town?
By autonomous drone
By autonomous drone: Wing, owned by Google's parent company, hovered over front lawns in Christiansburg and lowered a few boxes at a time on a tether, having promised to fly 3,000 boxes that spring.
Q 20Which of these is true of the Girl Scouts' chocolate-mint cookies, whichever bakery makes them?
They are vegan
They are vegan at both bakeries, the only variety that is, so a vegan customer anywhere in the country can order them; Little Brownie Bakers makes no other vegan cookie.
Raspberry Rally
Raspberry Rally sold out so quickly that boxes turned up on eBay at many times their price, and the Girl Scouts protested that resales like those earn the troops nothing.
Q 24Which rocky-road-inspired sandwich cookie joined the Girl Scout lineup for the 2026 season?
Exploremores
Exploremores sandwich chocolate, marshmallow and toasted-almond creme, and they took over from the campfire-themed S'mores cookie, which was retired after the 2025 season.
Q 25Which breakfast dish inspired an icing-dipped Girl Scout cookie sold from 2021 to 2025?
French toast
French toast gave Toast-Yay! its flavour and its look: each cookie was a miniature slice of bread, stamped with the trefoil and dipped in icing on one side.
Q 26Which of these is on the Girl Scouts' official list of five skills the cookie program teaches?
Money management
Money management sits beside goal setting, decision making, people skills and business ethics; in practice, a scout learns to handle the money herself, collecting payment and giving change.
Q 27In an average selling season, roughly how many packages of cookies do Girl Scouts sell?
About 200 million
About 200 million boxes go in a season of only a few months, and during those months Girl Scout Cookies outsell Oreo.
Q 28Troop 6000, which sold over 32,000 boxes in a week in 2018, is made up of New York girls living where?
In homeless shelters
In homeless shelters: the troop hoped to sell 6,000 boxes at its first ever cookie stand, and customers who queued for up to an hour also handed over more than $15,000 in donations.
Q 29Who do the Girl Scouts say decides how a troop spends its share of the cookie money?
The troop's own members
The troop's own members choose, and they have real money to work with: once the bakers are paid, everything left stays with the local council and its troops, often going toward a trip or a community project.
Q 30In which month do the Girl Scouts officially kick off their national cookie season?
January
January brings the national launch and most sales run until April, but start dates differ from area to area, which is why a neighbour's troop may be out selling weeks before yours.