Q 01/05

Milton Hershey put down a deposit for which famous ocean liner, then canceled to get home sooner?

A) Lusitania

B) Titanic

C) Britannic

D) Olympic

Answer · why

B) Titanic

Titanic was the ship he gave up, sailing days earlier on the German liner Amerika instead. His canceled $300 deposit check to the White Star Line surv...

Q 02/05

Which hit film sent sales of Reese's Pieces soaring after Mars passed on featuring its own candy?

A) Raiders of the Lost Ark

B) Back to the Future

C) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

D) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Answer · why

D) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial featured the peanut butter candy in 1982, and sales rose by perhaps as much as 300 percent. Hershey had launched the produc...

Q 03/05

Hershey's heat-resistant Tropical Bar, first made for soldiers in World War II, traveled where in 1971?

A) To the Moon

B) To the South Pole

C) Up Mount Everest

D) Across the Sahara

Answer · why

A) To the Moon

To the Moon: the bar flew with the Apollo 15 astronauts, almost three decades after the Army asked for a chocolate that could survive the heat of the ...

Q 04/05

Which NBA star scored a record 100 points in a single game played in Hershey in 1962?

A) Bill Russell

B) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

C) Wilt Chamberlain

D) Oscar Robertson

Answer · why

C) Wilt Chamberlain

Wilt Chamberlain did it for the Warriors against the New York Knicks at Hersheypark Arena, a rink better known as the longtime home ice of the Hershey...

Q 05/05

Which Hershey peanut bar was reportedly named when the hard-of-hearing Milton Hershey misheard a taster's praise?

A) Reese's Sticks

B) Mr. Goodbar

C) Bar None

D) 5th Avenue

Answer · why

B) Mr. Goodbar

Mr. Goodbar got its name in 1925, when someone at a tasting called it a good bar and the founder took that for a name. Chemist Samuel Hinkle, who devi...