Candy Slogans Trivia
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49 free Candy Slogans trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free candy slogans trivia questions with answers. This candy slogans trivia quiz matches the taglines to the sweets: which bar told you that you're not you when you're hungry, which mints were curiously strong, which candy said sometimes you feel like a nut, and which cartoon character told everyone not to lay a finger on his Butterfinger. It also asks who wrote the slogans, which agencies made them famous, and the origin stories behind brands from M&M's and Kit Kat to Pez, Haribo, Chupa Chups and Peeps. It works for office trivia, family game nights and Halloween parties: the easy questions can be answered by anyone who has watched TV since the 1980s, and the hard ones will test the ad-history buffs. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia and brand sources before publishing.
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Q 01Which candy bar's 2010 Betty White ad launched 'You're not you when you're hungry'?
Snickers
Snickers opened the campaign at the 2010 Super Bowl, where Betty White and Abe Vigoda stand in for footballers too hungry to play like themselves until they eat the bar.
Q 02Snickers, first sold in 1930, was named after what?
The maker's favourite horse
The maker's favourite horse was called Snickers. British shops sold the bar as Marathon until 1990, reportedly because Snickers sounded too much like knickers.
Q 03In the famous 1970 Tootsie Pop commercial, how many licks does Mr. Owl take before biting?
Three
Three licks, then Mr. Owl bites through the Tootsie Pop and the ad signs off 'The world may never know'; Purdue students later built a licking machine to settle it.
Q 04Which two candy bars were sold with 'Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't'?
Almond Joy and Mounds
Almond Joy and Mounds are sister coconut bars: Almond Joy has almonds under milk chocolate, Mounds has dark chocolate and no nuts, so one 1970s jingle could sell both.
Q 05Which mints are 'The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong'?
Altoids
Altoids began in the 18th century as lozenges meant to settle the stomach and only later became breath mints; 'curiously strong' points to their heavy dose of peppermint oil.
Q 06Which candy was known in 1990s ads as 'The Freshmaker'?
Mentos
Mentos' campy commercials were parodied by the Foo Fighters, and the mints famously erupt when dropped in Diet Coke.
Q 07Which candy has a three-word slogan tracing its flavour from tart to sugary to gone?
Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids' slogan is 'Sour. Sweet. Gone.' because a sour sugar coating dissolves to leave a sweet gummy; creator Frank Galatolie first sold them as Mars Men.
Q 08Which cartoon character warned 'Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger' from 1988 to 2001?
Bart Simpson
Bart Simpson first sold Butterfinger in a 1988 commercial, when The Simpsons was still a set of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show; the bar's name came from a public contest.
Q 09'Get the sensation' has been the tagline of which mint-chocolate candy since the 1970s?
York Peppermint Pattie
York Peppermint Pattie took the line national in the 1970s; at its York, Pennsylvania plant a pattie that failed to break cleanly in a 'snap test' was set aside as a second.
Q 10Which chocolate bar has urged people to 'Have a break' since 1957?
Kit Kat
Kit Kat got the line in 1957; the bar began in 1935 as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp, after a York factory worker asked for a snack 'a man could take to work in his pack'.
Q 11Which candy 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand'?
M&M's
M&M's owe the line to their hard sugar shell: the first big customer was the US Army, which wanted chocolate soldiers could carry in hot climates without it melting.
Q 12The two Ms in M&M's stand for Forrest Mars and the son of which chocolate company's president?
Hershey
Hershey's president William Murrie was the father of Bruce Murrie, the second M; the tie mattered because Hershey controlled rationed wartime chocolate, which the new candy needed.
Q 13In a 1995 consumer vote, which colour replaced tan in the M&M's mix?
Blue
Blue took the place of tan, which had itself replaced violet in the late 1940s; the Home Shopping Network televised a promotion to introduce the new colour.
Q 21Hershey's Kisses' longest-running commercial, first aired in 1989, shows the chocolates doing what?
Playing Christmas bells
Playing Christmas bells: the Kisses ring out 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' as a handbell choir. A 2020 remake drew such complaints that the original went straight back on air.
Q 223 Musketeers got its name because the original 1932 pack contained what?
Three flavoured pieces
Three flavoured pieces came in the 1932 pack: one chocolate, one vanilla, one strawberry. Rising costs and wartime restrictions later left only the chocolate.
Q 23Which sports commentator wrote the slogan 'Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water'?
Murray Walker
Q 14Which candy's long-running ads tell people to 'Taste the Rainbow'?
Skittles
Skittles swapped lime for green apple in 2013, and fans complained for years until the brand brought lime back for good in 2021.
Q 15Twix's 2012 'Pick a Side' campaign invented a rivalry between what?
Left and right bars
Left and right bars got separate wrappers and a tall tale: feuding brothers Seamus and Earl split the business into a Left Twix factory and a Right Twix factory.
Q 16'Two great tastes that taste great together' sold which candy in the 1970s and 80s?
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups ads showed strangers colliding with peanut butter and chocolate; the 1990s line was 'There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's'.
Q 17Which bubble gum's Wild West 'Gumfighter' ads promised 'Big bubbles, no troubles'?
Hubba Bubba
Hubba Bubba arrived in 1979 as a gum that stuck less, so a burst bubble peeled cleanly off the skin; that was the 'no troubles' its Gumfighter boasted about.
Q 18Which chocolate bar has boasted since 1928 of containing 'a glass and a half'?
Cadbury Dairy Milk
Cadbury Dairy Milk has made the 'glass and a half' boast since 1928; its 2007 ad, a gorilla drumming along to Phil Collins, was billed as a Glass and a Half Full Production.
Q 19Which fruit chew has been advertised as 'Unexplainably Juicy'?
Starburst
Starburst began in Britain as Opal Fruits, and British packs kept that name until 1998, decades after Americans knew the chews as Starburst.
Q 20Which British bar was sold as 'the sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite'?
Milky Way
Milky Way ran the line for years in Britain, where the bar has a light whipped filling and no caramel: closer to America's 3 Musketeers than to the American bar of the same name.
Murray Walker owned up to coining it in his other career: he spent his weeks at an advertising agency and his weekends at the microphone, and left advertising only at 59.
Q 24Which surrealist painter designed the Chupa Chups logo in 1969?
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí was hired by founder Enric Bernat to design the logo; the name comes from chupar, Spanish for 'to suck', and a later slogan told adults to 'Smoke Chupa Chups' instead of cigarettes.
Q 25Werther's Original is named after what?
A town in Germany
A town in Germany, not Goethe's lovesick hero: August Storck set up his sweet works in Werther, Westphalia, in 1903, and the caramels were sold at home as Werthers Echte.
Q 26Which candy, launched under the Willy Wonka brand, comes in a two-compartment box holding two flavours?
Nerds
Nerds keep their two flavours apart, each side of the box with its own opening, so they can be eaten singly or mixed; the Wonka name on the early boxes has since been dropped.
Q 27Which bubble gum is sold shredded in a pouch?
Big League Chew
Big League Chew came from Portland Mavericks pitcher Rob Nelson, and teammate Jim Bouton helped pitch it to Wrigley as a gum that copied the tobacco ballplayers chewed.
Q 28Tic Tac mints were named after what?
The sound of their box
The sound of their box gave Tic Tac its name in 1970, whether the click of the lid or the rattle of the mints; a year earlier they had launched as plain Refreshing Mints.
Q 29According to its maker, the Baby Ruth bar was named after whom?
President Cleveland's daughter
President Cleveland's daughter Ruth was the maker's story, but she had died in 1904, seventeen years before the bar appeared, just as Babe Ruth was becoming America's biggest sports star.
Q 30The letters in PEZ come from which German word?
Pfefferminz
Pfefferminz, German for peppermint, gave PEZ its letters; the mints were first sold to adults as a stand-in for smoking, and early ads declared 'No smoking, PEZing allowed!'