Famous Slogans Trivia
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Q 01Which brand's slogan is 'Just Do It'?
Nike
Nike adopted 'Just Do It' in 1988: its ad agency's co-founder, worried that five very different TV spots shared no common thread, wrote one line to pull them together.
Q 02The 'Just Do It' line was adapted from whose last words?
A death row inmate's
A death row inmate's last words, 'Let's do it', spoken by Gary Gilmore before his 1977 execution in Utah, stuck with the slogan's writer; he disliked 'Let's' and changed it to 'Just'.
Q 03The first 'Just Do It' advert showed a runner crossing which bridge?
Golden Gate
Golden Gate Bridge: Walt Stack, 80 and a fixture of San Francisco running, told viewers he ran 17 miles every morning and joked about how he kept his teeth from chattering in winter.
Q 04Which company used the slogan 'Think different' from 1997 to 2002?
Apple
Apple ran 'Think different' from 1997 to 2002; the line has been read as a jab at IBM, whose long-standing one-word motto was 'Think'.
Q 05Which cable channel was sold in the 1980s with the slogan 'I want my ...'?
MTV
MTV was missing from many cable line-ups, so stars such as Mick Jagger told viewers to ring their cable company and ask for it; Sting later sang the slogan on Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing'.
Q 06Who narrated the television version of the 'Crazy Ones' advert that Apple actually aired?
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss narrated the version Apple aired; a second cut voiced by Steve Jobs himself was recorded, but Jobs chose the Dreyfuss read just before the first broadcast.
Q 07Which group ran the 1971 anti-pollution advert that became known as the 'Crying Indian'?
Keep America Beautiful
Keep America Beautiful launched it on Earth Day 1971; its star, Iron Eyes Cody, played Native Americans for decades, but a 1996 newspaper report showed his parents were Italian immigrants.
Q 08Who paid for the dairy campaign of 1993 that asked a two-word question?
The California Milk Processor Board
The California Milk Processor Board, funded by the state's milk processors, commissioned 'Got Milk?' in 1993 from Goodby Silverstein & Partners, whose staff at first found the line lazy and ungrammatical.
Q 09Which future blockbuster director shot the first 'Got Milk?' commercial?
Michael Bay
Michael Bay, later director of Armageddon and Transformers, shot the 1993 'Aaron Burr' spot, in which a history buff with a mouthful of peanut-butter sandwich cannot answer a radio trivia question.
Q 10Which line replaced 'Got Milk?' as the national milk slogan in 2014?
Milk Life
'Milk Life' replaced 'Got Milk?' in national advertising in 2014, but the change didn't stick: in 2020 the older line was brought back.
Q 11Which chain introduced the catchphrase about a missing patty in 1984?
Wendy's
Wendy's launched 'Where's the beef?' in 1984 to mock rivals' big buns and small patties; within weeks Walter Mondale turned the line on Gary Hart in a Democratic primary debate.
Q 12Which actress delivered 'Where's the beef?' in the 1984 'Fluffy Bun' commercial?
Clara Peller
Clara Peller, a manicurist turned actress in her eighties, became a celebrity overnight, but the chain dropped her in 1985 after she declared 'I found it!' in a Prego pasta-sauce advert.
Q 13Which longer line did the director originally want the 'Fluffy Bun' actress to say?
Where is all the beef?
Q 21Crash-test dummies Vince and Larry starred in US adverts from 1985 urging people to do what?
Buckle their seat belts
Buckle their seat belts: under the line 'You Could Learn a Lot from a Dummy', the slapstick pair ran until 1999 and became popular enough to get their own action figures.
Q 22Which car rental firm turned being number two in its market into the slogan 'We Try Harder', adopted in 1962?
Avis
Avis adopted 'We Try Harder' in 1962, when it trailed Hertz and had never made a profit; under the campaign it began making money, and the line lasted fifty years.
Q 23Which British department store promised for almost a century that it was 'Never Knowingly Undersold'?
John Lewis
Director Joe Sedelmaier scripted 'Where is all the beef?', but the actress's emphysema left her unable to manage the longer line, so the shortened 'Where's the beef?' was used.
Q 14Which company has sold gems under the slogan 'A Diamond Is Forever' since the 1940s?
De Beers
De Beers got the line in 1947 from copywriter Frances Gerety, whose agency had been hired to make Americans see a diamond ring as the token of love and commitment.
Q 15Which spy novelist adapted the slogan 'A Diamond Is Forever' into the title of a 1956 thriller?
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming spotted the line in an advert in American Vogue and turned it into Diamonds Are Forever, his fourth James Bond novel.
Q 16Which cereal do Snap, Crackle and Pop advertise?
Rice Krispies
Rice Krispies' three elves took their names from an early radio advert, which invited listeners to hear the cereal 'merrily snap, crackle and pop in a bowl of milk'.
Q 17Which mint was sold through cheerfully corny 1990s adverts as 'The Freshmaker'?
Mentos
Mentos adverts were so recognisable that Foo Fighters spoofed them in the video for 'Big Me', selling a sweet called Footos as 'The Fresh Fighter'.
Q 18What headgear does the cereal mascot Snap wear?
A chef's toque
A chef's toque marks Snap; the first elf reached the box in 1933, and an illustrator then added two more, Crackle in a striped sleeping cap and Pop in a drum major's shako.
Q 19Which cereal has been sold as the 'Breakfast of Champions'?
Wheaties
Wheaties, the General Mills wheat-flake cereal, has carried the 'Breakfast of Champions' slogan since the 1930s, when it began sponsoring baseball broadcasts and putting athletes on its boxes.
Q 20Which sweet promised in a 1949 tagline that it 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand'?
M&M's
M&M's used the line from 1949; the hard shell is said to trace to sugar-coated chocolates Forrest Mars saw soldiers eating in the Spanish Civil War, which didn't melt in the heat.
John Lewis took the pledge from its sister store Peter Jones, where it began in 1925; it was dropped in 2022 and brought back in 2024.
Q 24Which novelist, then a London advertising copywriter, coined 'Irresistibubble' for Aero chocolate?
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie wrote adverts through the 1970s and even penned the words of a promotional song for a building society; Midnight's Children won him the Booker Prize in 1981.
Q 25Where did Maurice Drake say he wrote 'Beanz Meanz Heinz'?
In a pub over two pints
In a pub over two pints: Maurice Drake said the idea of ending 'Beans' with a z came on his second pint at The Victoria in Camden. In 2004 Heinz renamed the product itself Beanz.
Q 26Which cigarette brand did Leo Burnett rescue with a cowboy campaign from 1954?
Marlboro
Marlboro had been sold as a women's cigarette; Leo Burnett's cowboys turned it into a masculine brand within months, and the campaign ran for more than four decades.
Q 27Which alliterative slogan once pitched Marlboro to women smokers?
Mild as May
'Mild as May' sold Marlboro as a mild, ladylike smoke, and the image stuck: it was known as a women's cigarette for decades.
Q 28Tony the Tiger was created in 1952 for which Kellogg's cereal?
Frosted Flakes
Frosted Flakes launched with several animal mascots; within a year the tiger had seen off the others and had the cereal to himself.
Q 29Who voiced 'They're gr-r-reat!' for five decades?
Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Ravenscroft voiced Tony the Tiger for more than fifty years; he also sang 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch' but went uncredited, so many viewers assumed Boris Karloff had sung it.
Q 30The Energizer Bunny began life as a parody of which rival's mascot?
Duracell's
Duracell's drumming bunny dated from 1973, but it held no US trademark by 1988, so Energizer launched a parody of its own; the Duracell Bunny now advertises only outside North America.