Q 01/05

Which world leader reportedly offered Quality Street to visiting British MP George Galloway in 2002?

A) Muammar Gaddafi

B) Fidel Castro

C) Saddam Hussein

D) Yasser Arafat

Answer · why

C) Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein had a tin brought out during their talks, by Galloway's account, though neither man ate one. The brand's owner first welcomed the publi...

Q 02/05

Which Quality Street sweet, a hazelnut in caramel, topped the brand's 2016 Nation's Favourite survey?

A) Green Triangle

B) The Purple One

C) Caramel Swirl

D) Toffee Finger

Answer · why

B) The Purple One

The Purple One was the first choice of about one in five people surveyed. A bar made of four of them joined together marked the brand's 75th birthday ...

Q 03/05

What originally filled Quality Street's favourite caramel sweet before post-war shortages brought in the hazelnut?

A) Brazil nut

B) Chestnut

C) Pecan nut

D) Cashew nut

Answer · why

A) Brazil nut

Brazil nut was the first centre, and the chocolate still keeps the long shape made to hold one. Supplies ran short after the Second World War, so a nu...

Q 04/05

Which Quality Street sweet is the only one in the tin with no chocolate coating at all?

A) Toffee Finger

B) Coconut Eclair

C) Orange Creme

D) Toffee Penny

Answer · why

D) Toffee Penny

Toffee Penny is a plain disc of toffee, a homage to the sweets that built the company. Its creator knew his toffee, so he put two kinds in every tin.

Q 05/05

Quality Street takes its name from a 1901 stage comedy by which Scottish writer?

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Robert Louis Stevenson

C) J. M. Barrie

D) John Buchan

Answer · why

C) J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie wrote the play Quality Street a few years before Peter Pan. Its romantic leads inspired the soldier and lady who decorated the tins for d...