10 free Coca Cola trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Coca Cola's original formula contained actual cocaine—yes, really. Now it's the world's most valuable beverage brand. But how deep does your knowledge go? Take 10 questions and find out what you actually know about the red icon that conquered the globe.
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Q 01In what city was Coca-Cola first served?
Atlanta
The first glass was poured at Jacob's Pharmacy on May 8, 1886, just after Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition laws, and was marketed as 'the temperance drink'.
Q 02Who is credited with inventing the Coca-Cola formula?
John Stith Pemberton
Pemberton, a Confederate veteran addicted to morphine after a war wound, created it as a non-alcoholic version of his earlier French Wine Coca nerve tonic.
Q 03How much did a glass of Coca-Cola cost when it first went on sale in 1886?
5 cents
A loosely worded 1899 bottling contract fixed the price of a bottle at a nickel too, which kept the price of Coke frozen from 1886 all the way to 1959.
Q 04Who designed the iconic script logo for Coca-Cola?
Frank M. Robinson
Pemberton's bookkeeper also coined the name and chose the flowing Spencerian script, the dominant style of formal American handwriting at the time.
Q 05The famous contour bottle for Coca-Cola was patented in what year?
1915
Designer Earl R. Dean of the Root Glass Company based the shape on a picture of a cocoa pod, having failed to find any images of the coca leaf or kola nut in the library.
Q 06The drink's name refers to which two of its original ingredients?
Coca leaves and kola nuts
Pemberton's syrup called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon; fresh leaves were dropped in 1903, and today a cocaine-free extract is prepared at one federally licensed plant in New Jersey.
Q 07Coca-Cola became the first commercial sponsor of the Olympic Games at which Games?
Amsterdam 1928
The sponsorship has run unbroken ever since, including the 1996 Atlanta Games in the company's home town.
Q 08'The pause that refreshes' became a Coca-Cola slogan in which year?
1929
It arrived the year of the Wall Street crash, replacing 1928's 'Coca-Cola ... pure drink of natural flavors', and became one of the brand's longest-remembered lines.
Q 09What year saw the introduction of Coca-Cola Cherry, the company's first flavored cola extension?
1985
It arrived in the same turbulent year as New Coke and was only the second extension of the brand, after Diet Coke in 1982.
Q 10Which no-calorie cola, launched in 2005 with a distinct formula, had the word Sugar added to its name in 2016-17?
Coke Zero
Unlike Diet Coke, which used an entirely different formula, it was designed to mimic the taste of the flagship cola; it was reformulated again in 2021.