50 free Oreo trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Oreo trivia questions with answers. Oreo trivia has a twist in it from the start: the world's best-selling cookie was a copy. Hydrox got there four years earlier, sold alongside it for decades, and lost so completely that most people now think Hydrox was the imitation. This quiz runs from that first sale in Hoboken in March 1912 through every later turn: the man who drew the embossed wreath still stamped on every wafer, the food scientist with five patents on the filling, the lard swap that made the cookie kosher, the fictional rainbow cookie, the blackout tweet, and the 2022 fluid-dynamics paper that proved the creme will never split evenly no matter how you twist. There is a full section on varieties too, including the ones you cannot buy where you live. Every answer was checked against a sourced encyclopaedic account and carries the sentence that establishes it, so the arguments end quickly.
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Q 01In which year was the Oreo introduced?
1912
Nabisco has owned it ever since, and Mondelez International has owned Nabisco since 2012.
Q 02Which earlier cookie was the Oreo an imitation of?
Hydrox
It outsold the original so thoroughly that most people now assume the imitation came the other way round.
Q 03In which year did that rival cookie appear, four years before the Oreo?
1908
Sunshine Biscuits made it, and it survived on shelves for decades as the cookie people thought was the copy.
Q 04Since which year has the Oreo been the highest-selling cookie brand in the world?
2014
It is sold in more than 100 countries, with local flavours that never reach the American market.
Q 05One theory says the name is Greek for 'mountain', because the cookie was meant to be what?
Dome-shaped
Other theories point to the French for gold, after the original gold-coloured tin, or to a laurel genus matching the wreath in the early design.
Q 06In which New York City neighbourhood was the first Oreo made?
Chelsea
The block of Ninth Avenue outside the old factory was ceremonially renamed Oreo Way in 2002.
Q 07The first Oreo was sold on 6 March 1912 to a grocer in which city?
Hoboken, New Jersey
They went out by the pound in novelty metal canisters with clear glass tops, so shoppers could see the stack.
Q 08What was the cookie renamed in 1921?
Oreo Sandwich
It became the Oreo Creme Sandwich in 1948 and finally the Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie in 1974.
Q 09Who designed the embossed pattern still used on the cookie's face, in 1952?
William A. Turnier
His design worked the Nabisco logo into the wreath, replacing a 1924 pattern.
Q 10Which flavour of filling was tried in 1920 and dropped four years later?
Lemon creme
After that the plain white filling was the only option for several decades.
Q 11Which Nabisco food scientist developed the modern filling?
Sam Porcello
He held five patents tied to the cookie and also created the dark and white chocolate covered versions.
Q 12Which ingredient was taken out of the filling in the early 1990s?
Lard
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil replaced it, which is what made kosher certification possible.
Q 13What did that swap allow Nabisco to obtain?
Kosher certification
It was a long and expensive process, and it opened a market the animal-fat recipe had closed off.
Q 21How much thinner than the original is an Oreo Thin?
66 per cent
Each one comes to 40 calories, and the range runs to mint, lemon and tiramisu fillings.
Q 22Which flavour is sold only in China and Japan?
Green tea
Argentina gets an alfajor version instead: three cookies stacked with vanilla filling and dipped in chocolate.
Q 23How many Oreos had been sold worldwide by the cookie's centenary in 2012?
Over 450 billion
By 2017 more than 40 billion were being produced every year across 18 countries.
Q 14In which year did Nabisco remove trans fat from the cookie?
2006
Non-hydrogenated vegetable oil went in as one of the main ingredients instead.
Q 15What was unusual about the rainbow Pride cookie Oreo advertised in June 2012?
It did not actually exist
Kraft stood by the campaign, and a run of holiday adverts followed, including one for the Delta Aquariids meteor shower.
Q 16What did Oreo tweet when the lights went out at Super Bowl XLVII?
You can still dunk in the dark
It was retweeted almost 15,000 times and is still cited as the moment real-time marketing proved itself.
Q 17A 2022 study in Physics of Fluids proved what about the cookie?
The filling never splits evenly
However fast you twist, the creme sticks to one wafer, which the researchers called an inescapable result of how it bonds.
Q 18In which year was Double Stuf introduced?
1974
The same year the cookie got its current official name, the Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie.
Q 19What was the golden cookie with chocolate filling called until 2007?
The Uh-Oh Oreo
Golden wafers with chocolate filling are the original cookie turned inside out, which is exactly how it was sold.
Q 20Oreo Minis were re-released in 2000 as a promotional tie-in with which vehicle?
The Dodge Caravan
Their 1990s packaging had been a shrunken copy of the full-size cardboard tray and box.
Q 24How many main ingredients are in a classic Oreo?
11
The recipe has barely changed in a century, even as the fats in it were swapped twice.
Q 25Which company first brought Oreos to the Indian market, in 2011?
Cadbury India
European Oreos, meanwhile, are baked in Spain and at a Cadbury factory in the UK.
Q 26After losing the Oreo licence, Japan's Yamazaki launched a rival called what?
Noir
It is baked in the Ibaraki Prefecture plant that used to make the real thing.
Q 27What colour is the filling in the Halloween special edition?
Orange
Christmas gets red or green, and springtime blue or yellow with flowers and butterflies stamped on one side.
Q 28In how many countries are Oreos sold?
More than 100
Production runs in 18 countries, with plants in India, Indonesia, Bahrain, China, Spain, the UK and Russia among others.
Q 29When was Mega Stuf released?
2013
It is a Double Stuf with the filling pushed further still, in both chocolate and golden wafers.
Q 30In which year did a gluten-free version arrive?
2021
It launched in both the traditional and Double Stuf formats.