Advertising Trivia: Brands, Bait, & Buzz
1.
What was the color of Pabst's ribbon around the neck of its famous brew?
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Blue
2.
What product "takes a licking and keeps on ticking"?
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Timex Watches
3.
What cleaning product's jingle concluded with, "Floats the dirt right down the drain"?
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Ajax
4.
In a famous ad campaign, we learned that nothing comes between Brooke Shields and what?
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Her Calvin Klein Jeans
5.
Who was always caught squeezing the Charmin, on the Charmin commercials?
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Mr. Whipple
6.
According to the classic PSA, what cooked food represents your brain on drugs?
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Eggs
7.
What major corporation uses the slogan "Go Brown"?
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Ups
8.
What commercial won the 1995 Golden Clio Award for commercials?
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Pioneer (Rocking The Bridge)
9.
Why did the Chevrolet Nova not go over well in South America?
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"Nova" Translates Into No Go In Spanish
10.
Whose commercial boasted that their product was "an ancient Chinese secret"?
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Calgon
11.
What was the cartoon frog's name in commercials for Sugar Smacks?
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Dig'em
12.
What is the ad slogan for the National Enquirer?
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Inquiring Minds Want To Know
13.
What beer did Spuds MacKenzie promote?
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Bud Light
14.
What is the RCA dog's name?
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Nipper
15.
What product originally sponsored the TV cartoon "The Flintstones"?
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Winston Cigarettes
16.
Who had a three-year contract to represent the Gap in commercials?
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Sarah Jessica Parker
17.
"I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up!" was what company's ad slogan?
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Life Alert
18.
Which company has used the ad slogan, "We Really Move Our Tail For You"?
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Continental Airlines
19.
"Where It Costs Less To Get More" has been which company's ad slogan?
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Kroger
20.
"It's Better With The Butterfly" has been used as an ad slogan by which company?
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Microsoft
21.
"We're Number Two We Try Harder" has been which company's ad slogan?
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Avis
22.
Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" was used in a jingle for what product?
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Honda Motor Scooters
23.
Which product was being advertised with the saying, "Mother please...I'd rather do it myself"?
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Excedrin
24.
"Sunlight Flakes" eventually became known as what product?
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Lux
25.
What is the name of Tony the Tiger's daughter?
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Antoinette
26.
What color is the rooster on the Kellogg's "Corn Flakes" box?
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Green
27.
Name the only state capital that did not have at least one McDonald's restaurant in 2006?
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Montpelier, Vermont
28.
M&M's were invented in which year?
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1940
29.
Name the last state that allowed coloring to be added to margarine?
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Wisconsin
30.
The first household microwave oven went on sale in which year?
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1947
31.
More than 75 percent of the world's supply of maple syrup comes from where?
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Canada
32.
Montgomery Ward opened their first retail store in what year?
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1926
33.
Montgomery Ward opened its first retail store in which city?
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Plymouth, Indiana
34.
What was the real name of Johnny Morris, the Philip Morris cigarette bellboy?
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Johnny Roventini
35.
What was Buster Brown's dog's name?
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Tige
36.
How old did Smokey the Bear turn in 2004?
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60
37.
What soft drink advertised "Life tastes good"?
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Coke
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