Economics of Candy
2 of the top 5 best-selling chocolate bars/products include
What are Snickers, Reeses, Hershey’s Kisses, Kitkat, M&Ms
Mars trademarked this two-word name for the mini candy bars handed out on Halloween.
What is Fun Size?
Cocoa trees only grow in hot, rainy places near the equator, and about 60% of the world’s cocoa comes from farms on this continent.
What is Africa?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This was the topic of EDG and MktSoc’s last joint event.
What is Casing Workshop?
EDG’s Kickoff Meeting was sponsored by this alumni-founded bakery.
What is Nata?
These 3 ingredients make up 65% of the cost of candy production
What are cocoa beans (28.4 percent), sugar (8.7 percent), and corn syrup (28.1 percent)
Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel made this Transylvanian count famous.
Who is Dracula?
This animal appears on a green seal on many chocolate wrappers, which tells shoppers the cocoa was farmed in a more sustainable way.
What is a frog?
The name of MktSoc’s first ADversary event this semester.
What is Summer Spectacles ADversary?
This semester, EDG added this new program track.
Multimedia Journalism
The top 4 candy manufacturers own this percent of total market share
What is 45%?
This Halloween candy was originally marketed as “Chicken Feed.”
What is candy corn?
Because some cocoa butter was swapped for cheaper fats, Mr. Goodbar, Almond Joy, and Rolo are no longer legally considered the real thing under FDA rules. They can’t use this two-word term on their wrappers, which is how most people think of these candies.
What is milk chocolate?
This MktSoc E-Board member is/was a college D1 athlete.
Who is Joseph?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: MktSoc Co-Pres Neil and this EDG Board member were part of the same ASTRA cohort.
Who is Vlad?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Total annual candy sales are projected to hit this much by 2030? (within 5B wins)
What is $62.2 billion?
Before pumpkins, people in this country carved jack-o’-lanterns out of turnips.
What is Ireland?
In 2023, a CBS News investigation found children harvesting cocoa on farms in Ghana that supply this family-owned candy giant, which also makes pet food brands like Pedigree.
What is Mars?
Marketing Society dates back to this year.
What is 1993?
This many EDG board members (including senior advisors) are from NJ (3 bonus if you name all of them).
What is 7?
This popular candy brand is owned by one company, but licensed to sell in the US by another one
What is Kitkat?
This is the second-highest grossing Halloween film of all time at the box office.
What is Hotel Transylvania 2?
This voluntary, non-binding international agreement was signed in September 2001 aimed at eliminating the "worst forms of child labor" and forced labor in the growing and processing of cocoa beans.
The Harkin-Engel Protocol (Chocolate Industry Protocol)
This many MktSoc E-Board members are taking a BEMT minor. (3 extra if you can name 3 of them)
What is 8?
Rebecca was born in this city before moving at the age of 5.
What is Chicago?