Oreo Trivia
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44 free Oreo trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Oreo trivia questions with answers. Oreo trivia has a twist in it from the start: the world's best-selling cookie was a copy. Hydrox got there four years earlier, sold alongside it for decades, and lost so completely that most people now think Hydrox was the imitation. This quiz runs from that first sale in Hoboken in March 1912 through every later turn: the man who drew the embossed wreath still stamped on every wafer, the food scientist with five patents on the filling, the lard swap that made the cookie kosher, the fictional rainbow cookie, the blackout tweet, and the 2022 fluid-dynamics paper that proved the creme will never split evenly no matter how you twist. There is a full section on varieties too, including the ones you cannot buy where you live. Every answer was checked against a sourced encyclopaedic account and carries the sentence that establishes it, so the arguments end quickly.
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Q 01Which ship sank weeks after the first Oreo went on sale?
Titanic
Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, about six weeks after the first Oreos were sold and a month after Nabisco filed to trademark the name.
Q 02Which earlier cookie was the Oreo an imitation of?
Hydrox
Hydrox reached shops in 1908, four years before the Oreo, but was outsold so thoroughly that most people now assume it was the imitation.
Q 03Which bakery, later the maker of Cheez-It, launched the cookie the Oreo imitated?
Sunshine Biscuits
Sunshine Biscuits launched it in 1908; after the cookie was dropped, a later owner, Kellogg, revived it for its 2008 centenary following more than 1,300 phone calls and a petition from fans.
Q 04What three-step ritual did Oreo's advertising popularise for eating the cookie?
Twist, Lick, Dunk
Twist, Lick, Dunk: pull the wafers apart, lick the creme, then dunk in milk; by the brand's own count, half of all Oreo eaters twist theirs open before eating.
Q 05One theory says Oreo comes from the Greek for 'mountain', because the cookie was first meant to be what?
Dome-shaped
Dome-shaped: Greek oros means mountain, and a hill-like test cookie is said to have inspired the name; a rival theory points to French 'or', gold, the colour of early packs.
Q 06In which New York City neighbourhood was the first Oreo made?
Chelsea
Chelsea: Nabisco's huge bakery complex between 15th and 16th Streets on Manhattan's West Side baked the first Oreos; the building later became Chelsea Market.
Q 07The first Oreo was sold on 6 March 1912 to a grocer in which city?
Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken, New Jersey lies just across the Hudson River from the Manhattan bakery where the cookies were made, so the very first sale was practically next door.
Q 08The Oreo Biscuit was renamed what in 1921?
Oreo Sandwich
Oreo Sandwich replaced the launch name, Oreo Biscuit, in 1921; two more renamings followed before Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie stuck in 1974.
Q 09Which Pokémon was the rarest design on 2021's Pokémon Oreos?
Mew
Mew was by far the scarcest of the 16 designs stamped on the cookies, and resellers were soon listing Mew Oreos on eBay for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
Q 10Which flavour of Oreo filling was sold alongside the original in the cookie's early years, then dropped in the 1920s?
Lemon creme
Lemon creme was the only early alternative to the white filling; once it was dropped in the 1920s, the original stood alone for decades.
Q 11Which ingredient did Nabisco remove from the Oreo's creme in the 1990s over health concerns?
Lard
Lard gave way to vegetable oil in the 1990s, taking the animal fat out of the creme amid health worries.
Q 12What certification did the Oreo gain in the late 1990s after its creme recipe changed?
Kosher certification
Kosher certification followed a lengthy, costly conversion of Nabisco's bakeries once the creme's old shortening was gone, and packs have carried the symbol ever since.
Q 13A 2003 lawsuit targeted which Oreo ingredient, removed by 2006?
Trans fat
Trans fat: BanTransFats.com sued Kraft in May 2003 over Oreos sold to young children, then dropped the case once Kraft said it would cut or remove the fat.
Q 21Which ingredient gives Oreo wafers their near-black colour?
Alkalized cocoa
Alkalized cocoa: treating cocoa with alkali, the 'Dutch' process, darkens it and cuts its bitterness, and Oreo wafers use the heavily treated kind bakers call black cocoa.
Q 22Which company first brought Oreos to the Indian market, in 2011?
Cadbury India
Cadbury India launched the Oreo in March 2011, a year after Kraft's takeover of Cadbury handed the American cookie a ready-made sales network there.
Q 23In 2016 a licence to bake Oreos lapsed and production for which country moved to China?
Japan
Japan: Yamazaki had baked the country's Oreos under licence; a year after losing the deal it launched a lookalike, Noir, from the very factory that used to make them.
Q 14What was unusual about the rainbow Pride cookie Oreo advertised in June 2012?
It did not actually exist
It did not actually exist: the rainbow-creme cookie was only an image shared online for Pride, the first in a run of daily ads marking the Oreo's centenary.
Q 15What line appeared in Oreo's tweet when the lights went out at Super Bowl XLVII?
You can still dunk in the dark
'You can still dunk in the dark' went out within minutes of the Superdome blackout, because the brand had a social media team standing by for the game, and drew nearly 15,000 retweets.
Q 16Which pop star's limited-edition Oreo came in pink wafers with green creme?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga's Oreos borrowed their pink-and-green look from her 2020 album Chromatica, which the limited-edition cookies were made to promote.
Q 17What was the Golden Oreo with chocolate creme called until 2007?
The Uh-Oh Oreo
The Uh-Oh Oreo put the chocolate inside two golden wafers in 2003; by the brand's own account it was meant as a brief novelty but sold too well to drop.
Q 18Which NBA legend dunked an Oreo into a glass of milk in the brand's 2017 Dunk Challenge ad?
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal stretched out horizontally to dip his cookie in the ad, part of a Dunk Challenge campaign that ran in more than 50 countries.
Q 19Engineers at which university coined the term 'Oreology' in a 2022 study of twisting Oreos apart?
MIT
MIT engineers coined 'Oreology' for their 2022 Physics of Fluids paper, which found the creme nearly always stays on one wafer however the cookie is twisted.
Q 20Roughly how many Oreos were sold worldwide in the cookie's first hundred years?
About 400 billion
About 400 billion: tallies published for the 2012 centenary ran from 362 billion to more than 450 billion, the sales behind the brand's claim to be the world's best-selling cookie.
Q 24What colour is the creme in the Oreo Halloween special edition?
Orange
Orange creme first marked Halloween Oreos in 1991, and the seasonal idea stuck: red-filled Christmas editions followed in 1995.
Q 25Which streetwear brand's red Oreos were listed on eBay for thousands of dollars in 2020?
Supreme
Supreme's red, logo-stamped Oreos came three to a pack in March 2020, and eBay listings topped $15,000 before the cookies had even gone on sale.
Q 26In January 2021 Oreo added a permanent version made without what?
Gluten
Gluten: the brand announced the cookie in late 2020 as a permanent line, not a limited edition, ending the cookie's years on the no-go list for people who cannot eat it.
Q 27The flavour of the first Mystery Oreo, sold in 2017, was revealed to be what?
Fruity Pebbles
Fruity Pebbles: Nabisco's 2017 Mystery Oreo contest invited fans to guess the creme flavour, and the answer, revealed in December 2017, was the fruity cereal taste.
Q 28Oreo's 2013 Super Bowl ad staged a whispered 'cookie or creme' fight in which setting?
A library
A library: the 'Whisper Fight' ad had patrons silently brawling over whether the cookie or the creme is better, all while keeping their voices down.
Q 29How did grocers sell the very first Oreos in 1912?
In bulk tins, by weight
In bulk tins, by weight: by the brand's own timeline, shoppers waited until 1923 for Oreos in a self-service package they could pick up themselves.
Q 30What decorative element ringed the face of the original 1912 Oreo?
A wreath
A wreath ran around the edge of the first Oreo, with the name on a plain centre; the Nabisco emblem familiar today was only added in the 1952 redesign.