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This Classic Candy Quiz Will Tempt Your Sweet Tooth

Savor this test about all the melt-in-your mouth treats you grew up with

Thom Geier,

AARP

Published May 09, 2023

10 Questions

Did you spend your childhood jonesing for Hershey’s chocolate bars? Or seeking out the sugar rush of inhaling Pixy Stix? Then tear the wrapper off this quiz about classic candy.

This Classic Candy Quiz Will Tempt Your Sweet Tooth

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 "question" : "What was Ronald Reagan’s favorite candy?\n",
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 "answer" : "Tootsie Rolls",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "M&M’s",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Werther’s Original caramels",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Jelly beans",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "According to the Reagan Library, America’s 40th president began eating Goelitz Mini Jelly Beans when he was running for governor of California in 1966 as a way to help him kick another habit: pipe smoking. The company soon began sending Reagan a monthly shipment of the candies — especially the Jelly Belly brand it introduced in 1976 — that continued when he was in the White House.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What makes a Crunch bar crunchy?\n",
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 "answer" : "Peanuts",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Crisped rice",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Almonds",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Pretzels",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "The crispy milk chocolate bar was long branded as Nestle Crunch, but that changed when the food giant sold its entire U.S. candy business in 2018 to Italy’s Ferrero Group, the makers of those gold-wrapped Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolates (as well as Nutella spread).\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What candy slogan urges you to “taste the rainbow”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Life Savers",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Skittles",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "M&M’s",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Jujubes",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Skittles, which has been marketed with the “taste the rainbow” slogan since 1994, originally came in five fruity flavors – orange, lemon, strawberry, grape and lime. But in 2013, candymaker Wrigley’s replaced the lime candies in its classic mix with green apple, a decision that left such a sour taste for Skittles fans that the company reversed the decision eight years later.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What was the name of the eye-patched boy featured in the cartoon inside every pack of Bazooka bubble gum?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Bubble Boy",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Poppy",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Bazooka Joe",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Fu Man Chew",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Bazooka Joe and his pals told corny jokes in tiny cartoons that were first slipped inside the gum wrappers in 1953, and have been translated into more than 50 languages worldwide.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which of these candies from “Willy Wonka &amp; the Chocolate Factory” can you purchase in real life?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Three-course-meal gum",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Everlasting Gobstopper",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Fizzy Lifting Drink",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Exploding candy",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Five years after the 1971 movie was released, a Chicago confectioner introduced a licensed version of the Gobstopper — a hard candy that changes colors and flavors over time.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "In an episode of “Seinfeld,” Jerry and Elaine interrupt a piano recital while goofing with a Tweety Bird-topped toy dispensing what candy?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Life Savers",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "PEZ",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Mentos",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Tic Tacs",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "PEZ candies were originally mint flavored, and were invented in 1927 by Austrian businessman Eduard Haas III as a way to help people quit smoking. The candy gets its name from the German word for peppermint, PfeffErminZ. In 1952, Haas’ company started selling PEZ in American markets, and retooled the candy with fruit flavors and the dispensers into interactive toys to appeal to children.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Reese’s Pieces are featured in what classic 1982 movie?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "“Gremlins”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "“Back to the Future”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "“E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "“Ghostbusters”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
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 "explanation" : "Writer-director Steven Spielberg featured his favorite candy, M&amp;M’s, in the original script for his blockbuster “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” according to producer Kathleen Kennedy. But when they couldn’t reach a deal with candymaker Mars (which had insisted on seeing the screenplay, something the director wanted to be kept under wraps), archrival Hershey swooped in to place Reese’s Pieces in the movie instead.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "According to classic TV ads, what candy bar is “fluffy, not stuffy”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "3 Musketeers",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Butterfinger",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Twix",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Milky Way",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "In a classic 1972 commercial, the 3 Musketeers bars are so fluffy that they seem to levitate in the air. Must be all that whipped mousse filling. The candy got its name because it was first launched in 1932 with three flavors in one package: chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. But WWII sugar restrictions led Mars to focus on the most popular chocolate variety.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What chewy treat’s ads promised to “double your pleasure, double your fun”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Twix",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Doublemint gum",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Double Decker",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Kit Kat",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Wrigley launched the memorable TV ad campaign in 1959 with Joan and Jayne Knoerzer, then-21-year-old twin sisters from Indiana.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "According to this mascot, it takes only three licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop:\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Tony the Tiger",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Mr. Owl",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Gerry the Giraffe",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Mr. Toad",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Despite years of showing an astute owl demonstrating it took only three licks, a 2015 study by mathematicians at New York University and Florida State University found that it actually takes about 1,000 licks to get to the center of the pop.\n",
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} ]

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Thom Geier is an award-winning writer and editor with a passion for American pop culture. He served as executive editor of the digital news site TheWrap.com and as a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, where he oversaw coverage of movies, theater and books. His essays and reviews appear regularly on CultureSauce.net.

This Classic Candy Quiz Will Tempt Your Sweet Tooth

This Classic Candy Quiz Will Tempt Your Sweet Tooth

This Classic Candy Quiz Will Tempt Your Sweet Tooth

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