Advertising Trivia: Brands, Bait, & Buzz

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Quizzes Created: 13 | Total Attempts: 15,766
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1.

What was the color of Pabst's ribbon around the neck of its famous brew?

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Answer: Blue
2.

What product "takes a licking and keeps on ticking"?

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Answer: Timex Watches
3.

What cleaning product's jingle concluded with, "Floats the dirt right down the drain"?

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Answer: Ajax
4.

In a famous ad campaign, we learned that nothing comes between Brooke Shields and what?

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Answer: Her Calvin Klein Jeans
5.

Who was always caught squeezing the Charmin, on the Charmin commercials?

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Answer: Mr. Whipple
6.

According to the classic PSA, what cooked food represents your brain on drugs?

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Answer: Eggs
7.

What major corporation uses the slogan "Go Brown"?

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Answer: Ups
8.

What commercial won the 1995 Golden Clio Award for commercials?

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Answer: Pioneer (Rocking The Bridge)
9.

Why did the Chevrolet Nova not go over well in South America?

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Answer: "Nova" Translates Into No Go In Spanish
10.

Whose commercial boasted that their product was "an ancient Chinese secret"?

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Answer: Calgon
11.

What was the cartoon frog's name in commercials for Sugar Smacks?

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Answer: Dig'em
12.

What is the ad slogan for the National Enquirer?

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Answer: Inquiring Minds Want To Know
13.

What beer did Spuds MacKenzie promote?

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Answer: Bud Light
14.

What is the RCA dog's name?

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Answer: Nipper
15.

What product originally sponsored the TV cartoon "The Flintstones"?

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Answer: Winston Cigarettes
16.

Who had a three-year contract to represent the Gap in commercials?

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Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker
17.

"I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up!" was what company's ad slogan?

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Answer: Life Alert
18.

Which company has used the ad slogan, "We Really Move Our Tail For You"?

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Answer: Continental Airlines
19.

"Where It Costs Less To Get More" has been which company's ad slogan?

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Answer: Kroger
20.

"It's Better With The Butterfly" has been used as an ad slogan by which company?

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Answer: Microsoft
21.

"We're Number Two We Try Harder" has been which company's ad slogan?

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Answer: Avis
22.

Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" was used in a jingle for what product?

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Answer: Honda Motor Scooters
23.

Which product was being advertised with the saying, "Mother please...I'd rather do it myself"?

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Answer: Excedrin
24.

"Sunlight Flakes" eventually became known as what product?

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Answer: Lux
25.

What is the name of Tony the Tiger's daughter?

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Answer: Antoinette
26.

What color is the rooster on the Kellogg's "Corn Flakes" box?

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Answer: Green
27.

Name the only state capital that did not have at least one McDonald's restaurant in 2006?

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Answer: Montpelier, Vermont
28.

M&M's were invented in which year?

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Answer: 1940
29.

Name the last state that allowed coloring to be added to margarine?

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Answer: Wisconsin
30.

The first household microwave oven went on sale in which year?

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Answer: 1947
31.

More than 75 percent of the world's supply of maple syrup comes from where?

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Answer: Canada
32.

Montgomery Ward opened their first retail store in what year?

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Answer: 1926
33.

Montgomery Ward opened its first retail store in which city?

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Answer: Plymouth, Indiana
34.

What was the real name of Johnny Morris, the Philip Morris cigarette bellboy?

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Answer: Johnny Roventini
35.

What was Buster Brown's dog's name?

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Answer: Tige
36.

How old did Smokey the Bear turn in 2004?

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Answer: 60
37.

What soft drink advertised "Life tastes good"?

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Answer: Coke
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