Q 01/05

In what city was Coca-Cola first served?

A) New York City

B) Atlanta

C) Philadelphia

D) Charleston

Answer · why

B) 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 ...

Q 02/05

Who is credited with inventing the Coca-Cola formula?

A) Asa Candler

B) Frank Robinson

C) John Stith Pemberton

D) Robert Woodruff

Answer · why

C) 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 t...

Q 03/05

How much did a glass of Coca-Cola cost when it first went on sale in 1886?

A) 1 cent

B) 5 cents

C) 10 cents

D) 25 cents

Answer · why

B) 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 04/05

Who designed the iconic script logo for Coca-Cola?

A) Asa Candler

B) John Stith Pemberton

C) Frank M. Robinson

D) Raymond Loewy

Answer · why

C) 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 05/05

The famous contour bottle for Coca-Cola was patented in what year?

A) 1905

B) 1915

C) 1925

D) 1935

Answer · why

B) 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...