Marketing Fails
Toy of the Year
Call Me Maybe
Also An Animal
Sculptures
400
In Response to the widely successful ad campaign known as the Pepsi challenge this company changed their nearly 100 year formula to make the drink sweeter and better compete in the Pepsi blind taste tests, but due to public outrage the new product got "canned" 77 days later, as they brought back the original.
What is Coca Cola
400
Despite these trading cards coming out 30 years ago 2025 was the first year that this brand won a toy of the year award
What is Pokemon
400
In 1997 the company Apple was desperate for money so when Steve Jobs was named CEO he called up this man who was the CEO, founder of Microsoft, and richest man in the world securing a $150 million investment
Who is Bill Gates
400
Sammy Sosa is the most famous baseball player in history who got caught using one of these filled with cork
What is a Bat
400
This is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo named after the biblical hero who defeated Goliath
Who is David
800
To promote an upcoming feature film based on the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force this company hired a guerrilla marketing firm to install small, battery-powered LED pixel displays across Boston which caused the shutdown of over a dozen highways, transit stations, and bridges as they were suspected to be bombs.
What is Cartoon Network
800
This toy is tied for winning the most ever toy of the year awards winning it in 1998, 1999, and 2012 for this toy that children, play with, pet, and feed as the toy slowly learns english and evolves its personality
What is a Furby
800
in July 1973 Richard Nixon became implicated in this scandal after Alexander Butterfield Revealed the existence of the secret Oval Office recording system of Nixon's phone calls.
What is Watergate
800
These are the primary residents of the Mushroom Kingdom in the Mario video game franchise
What are Toads
800
Jim Dine, created a 12 foot bronze sculpture of this lying disney puppet that stands at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Who is Pinocchio
1200
This company's founder and CEO Todd Davis to promote his Identity theft protection business posted his own social security number, on Billboards to prove the company stopped any and all identity theft, only for his identity to be stolen 13 times with tax returns filed, loans, and Phone accounts taken out in his name, and also got the company fined $112 million by the FTC
What is LifeLock
1200
This handheld console was the only video game console to win toy of the year doing so in 1991 before it went to space in 1993 where it orbited the earth around 3,000 times
What is the (Nintendo) Gameboy
1200
AT&T President Walter S. Gifford and postal official Sir Evelyn Murray made the first ever phone call across this ocean
What is the Atlantic
1200
Chadwick Boseman was the lead actor in this Marvel Movie about a superhero who becomes king of a secret country powered by vibranium
What is Black Panther
1200
Miles the Monster is a 46 foot tall 20 ton sculpture that holds a full sized NASCAR stock car that stands at Dover Motor speedway, the capital of this state
What is Delaware
1600
In 2005 this company tried to break the previous guinness world record for largest popsicle with a 25-foot, 17.5-ton popsicle that they would stand up in New York City only for the Popsicle to quickly melt flooding multiple streets
What is Snapple
1600
This 2001 toy of the year winner was a build your own action figure that had several shows, comic books, and movies saved Lego from the brink of bankruptcy
What is Bionicle
1600
While Richard Nixon talked to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as they traversed the moon the third member of the Apollo 11 mission named this had the task of piloting the spacecraft by himself
Who is (Michael) Collins
1600
Chrysler paid Warner Bros. $50,000 for name and imaging rights to be used for their new affordable muscle car model with a horn that went "beep beep" called the plymouth this
What is Road Runner
1600
This second century sculpture resides in an Italian museum featuring this titan holding up the very heavy celestial sphere which in greek mythology if he dropped would end the world
Who is Atlas
2000
Pepsi Number Fever, a campaign where people in this country could win up to $40,000 USD although originally massively successful turned ugly when a computer error caused 800,000 regular bottle caps to be printed with the grand prize-winning number, after Pepsi refused to pay out $32 billion on their mistake Rioters threw grenades at Pepsi warehouses, delivery trucks, and plants, ending with the death of several people and a negative image in the country
What is the Phillipines
2000
In 1965 a diecast version of this car famously driven by James Bond in the movie Goldfinger won the first ever Toy of the year award. (Only need the Make)
What is an Aston Martin (DB5)
2000
On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell called this man who was his assistant making the first ever successful phone call
Who is (Thomas) Watson
2000
This is the rarest score someone has got in one hole which is 4 under par with only 6 people ever recorded to get it in history
What is a Condor
2000
Louis Bourgeois created this french named giant spider sculpture to represent and pay tribute to his mother
What is Maman