Q 01/05

Which bubble gum did Fleer accountant Walter Diemer invent in 1928 while tinkering with recipes in his spare time?

A) Bazooka

B) Dubble Bubble

C) Big League Chew

D) Hubba Bubba

Answer · why

B) Dubble Bubble

Dubble Bubble. His test batch sold out at a Philadelphia shop in a single afternoon at a penny apiece, yet Diemer never received a royalty for inventi...

Q 02/05

Why is bubble gum traditionally pink?

A) Fleer's logo was pink

B) Pink hides tooth marks

C) It was made from red chicle

D) Pink was the only dye on hand

Answer · why

D) Pink was the only dye on hand

Pink was the only dye on hand. Walter Diemer's first workable batch at the Fleer factory in 1928 came out a dingy grey, so he coloured it with what wa...

Q 03/05

What did Frank Fleer call the bubble gum he made in 1906, which proved too sticky to sell?

A) Stretchy Stuff

B) Bubble Blob

C) Blibber-Blubber

D) Pop-a-Lot

Answer · why

C) Blibber-Blubber

Blibber-Blubber. It was brittle as well as sticky, so it never reached the shops, and Fleer died in 1921 with the problem unsolved; his own company fi...

Q 04/05

A lump of birch-tar chewing gum found in Finland, tooth marks intact, dates back roughly how far?

A) 500 years

B) 5,000 years

C) 50,000 years

D) 500,000 years

Answer · why

B) 5,000 years

5,000 years. A British student dug it up at a Stone Age site in 2007; birch tar holds antiseptic compounds, so its Neolithic chewers may have been tre...

Q 05/05

Which peoples chewed chicle, a natural tree gum, centuries before modern chewing gum existed?

A) The Greeks and Romans

B) The Maya and Aztecs

C) The Inca and Nazca

D) The Celts and Vikings

Answer · why

B) The Maya and Aztecs

The Maya and Aztecs. The Maya chewed it to stave off hunger and thirst; among the Aztecs, only children and unmarried women could chew it in public.