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50 free Girl Scout Cookie trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Girl Scout Cookie trivia questions with answers. Girl Scout Cookies are a $800 million business run by a million girls, and almost nobody who buys a box knows the history behind it. This quiz covers it all: the 1917 bake sale in a Muskogee high school cafeteria, the 1922 recipe that cost 26 cents to make, the first commercial boxes in Philadelphia, the wartime calendars, the two licensed bakeries and why your Samoas might be someone else's Caramel deLites, Thin Mints' dominance, the cookies that came and went, and the girls who sold 18,000 and then 32,000 boxes. It starts with questions any customer can answer (the best seller, when cookie season is) and works up to trivia for troop leaders: how many cookies were in a 1943 box, which cookie was online-only for one season, who owns Little Brownie Bakers, and how much of the money stays with the council. Free to use for a troop meeting, a cookie booth game or a bake-sale quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and Girl Scouts of the USA's own history and FAQ pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01In what year did a Girl Scout troop first sell cookies?
1917
The Mistletoe Troop of Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked and sold them in their high school cafeteria as a service project.
Q 02In which state was that first troop cookie sale held?
Oklahoma
Muskogee's Mistletoe Troop did it in December 1917, five years after the Girl Scouts were founded in Savannah.
Q 03Which magazine printed a sugar cookie recipe in 1922 and suggested selling them as a fundraiser?
The American Girl
Regional director Florence E. Neil estimated six to seven dozen cookies would cost 26 to 36 cents to make.
Q 04According to the 1922 recipe, roughly how much did the ingredients for six to seven dozen cookies cost?
26 to 36 cents
They were to be sold at 25 or 30 cents a dozen.
Q 05In 1933, Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia sold cookies in the windows of what?
The city's gas and electric company
A year later the council became the first to sell commercially baked cookies.
Q 06In which year did the first official council cookie sale using a commercial bakery take place?
1934
National licensing of bakers began in 1936, starting with Keebler-Weyl.
Q 07Which company was the first commercial baker licensed by Girl Scouts of the USA in 1936?
Keebler-Weyl Bakery
Southern Biscuit and Burry Biscuit were added the next year, when 125 troops launched sales.
Q 08What did Girl Scouts sell during World War II because of shortages of flour, sugar and butter?
Calendars
The first Girl Scout calendars went on sale in 1944.
Q 09How many cookies came in a box in 1943?
48
Box counts and even cookie sizes were trimmed again as recently as 2018.
Q 10In 1951 the cookies came in three varieties: Sandwich, Shortbread and what?
Chocolate Mints
Chocolate Mints are the cookies now known as Thin Mints.
Q 11How many types of cookie were being sold nationwide by 1956?
Six
Samoas did not arrive until later.
Q 12In which decade were Samoas added to the line-up?
1970s
They are now the second-best seller, with about 38 million boxes sold in 2013.
Q 13How many bakeries have been licensed to make Girl Scout Cookies since the 1990s?
Two
ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers; the count had been cut to four in 1978.
Q 14Why can the same Girl Scout cookie have two different names?
Q 21Which of these is true of the mint wafers?
They are vegan
They are one of five vegan varieties on offer.
Q 22Roughly how many Samoas cookies come in a box?
About 15
Their caramel and coconut make them heavier than the wafers.
Q 23Adventurefuls, launched in 2022, are brownie-inspired cookies topped with what?
Caramel-flavored creme and sea salt
They joined the lineup alongside the lemon-iced Lemon-Ups from ABC.
The choice of bakery determines the name
Each council picks one of the two licensed bakers, so one troop's Samoas are another's Caramel deLites.
Q 15What does ABC Bakers call the cookie that Little Brownie Bakers sells as Samoas?
Caramel deLites
Vanilla cookies coated in caramel, sprinkled with toasted coconut and striped with chocolate.
Q 16What are Tagalongs called by the other bakery?
Peanut Butter Patties
They are vanilla cookies layered with peanut butter and covered in chocolate coating.
Q 17Do-si-dos, also sold as Peanut Butter Sandwiches, are peanut butter filling between what kind of cookies?
Oatmeal
Trefoils, by contrast, are plain shortbread shaped like the Girl Scout emblem.
Q 18Which cookie is the best seller?
Thin Mints
Tens of millions of boxes were sold in 2013, roughly 32 cookies to a box.
Q 19Roughly how many boxes of the best-selling mint wafer were sold in 2013?
50 million
Samoas came second with about 38 million.
Q 20How many cookies are in an average box of the mint wafers?
About 32
A box of Samoas holds only about 15.
Q 24Which cookie launched as an online-only, limited-supply item in 2023 and was dropped that year?
Raspberry Rally
Boxes were flipped on eBay for many times their price within days.
Q 25Girl Scout S'mores were sold from 2016 to 2025 and replaced in 2026 by which rocky-road-inspired cookie?
Exploremores
Exploremores are filled with chocolate, marshmallow and toasted almond creme.
Q 26ABC's short-lived 'Yay!' cookie, discontinued after 2025, was inspired by which breakfast dish?
French toast
Toast-Yay! were French-toast cookies dipped in icing.
Q 27Which company owns Little Brownie Bakers, through its Keebler subsidiary?
Ferrero
ABC Bakers belongs to Interbake Foods, owned by George Weston Limited.
Q 28In an average selling season, roughly how many packages of cookies do Girl Scouts sell?
Over 200 million
More than a million girls take part and raise over $800 million.
Q 29How much money do Girl Scout Cookie sales raise in an average season?
Over $800 million
Roughly 70 per cent stays with the local council to fund Girl Scouting in that area.
Q 30Roughly what share of cookie proceeds stays with the local Girl Scout council?
About 70%
Net proceeds never go to the national organisation.