Chocolate
Candy Brands
Holidays
Slogans
Miscellaneous
100
What is the healthiest type of chocolate?
Dark chocolate
100
What do the initals M&M stand for?
Mars & Murrie
100
What iconic candy is used to adorn gingerbread houses?
Gumdrops
100
Taste the rainbow
Skittles
100
Licorice is often flavored with what spice?
Anise
200
What did Hershey make that powered soldiers during WWII?
The D Ration Bar - a 4-ounce, high energy bar that could withstand high temperatures and “tasted a little better than a boiled potato.”
200
Which businessman is known for creating the first, mass-produced candy bar in the world?
John Cadbury
200
What is the most popular Halloween candy in America?
Reese's Cups
200
Nobody better lay a finger on my....?
Butterfinger
200
What do the British call candy?
Sweets
300
Chocolate is said to stimulate what?
Sexual desire
300
What multi-flavored candy was first produced in 1847 by the New England Confectionary Company?
NECCO Wafers (hence the acronym)
300
What holiday boasts the most candy sales?
Christmas
300
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a....?
Tootsie Pop
300
What was the occupation of the man that invented cotton candy?
Dentist - William Morrison and his partner created the confection in 1897 and it was first shown to a broad audience at the 1904 World’s Fair under the name “Fairy Floss"
400
What is in the center of a Ferrero Rocher candy?
Hazelnut
400
Snickers, one of the most popular candy brands today was named after what?
A horse
400
Why are jellybeans so popular at Easter?
1. They are shaped like eggs
2. They're inexpensive
3. They travel well and fit in plastic eggs
400
Melts in your mouth, not in your hands
M&Ms
400
Before sugar was available what was used to make candy?
Honey
500
What country invented milk chocolate?
Switzerland in 1875 by mixing powdered milk with chocolate liquor
500
In 1928, accountant, Walter Deimer created the first successful bubble gum. What color did he make the gum and why?
The gum was pink because it was the only color the factory had on hand, and he never changed it
500
Every year NECCO produces 100,000lbs. of what candy for Valentine's Day?
Conversation Hearts
500
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't
Almond Joy
500
What candy is served through a cartoon head?
Pez
600
What makes white chocolate, white?
It contains no cocoa powder, rather cocoa butter that is added to sugar, milk and vanilla
600
Milton Hershey is world famous for his chocolate but when he launched his first successful business, what was he making?
Caramels - It was the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago that first got him interested in cocoa. He was fascinated by some of the German machinery he found there, so he bought it and shipped it over to Lancaster, where he started experimenting with chocolate coatings for his caramels. The Hershey Chocolate Company followed, and Milton sold his caramel enterprise for $1 million.
600
List the order the colors appear on candy corn from the bottom to the top
Yellow, Orange, White
600
Double your pleasure, double your fun
Doublemint Gum
600
What flavoring is used for circus peanuts?
Banana
700
What chocolate bar that debuted in 1930, contained three pieces of candy in three flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry?
3 Musketeers
700
This brand of candy was the first penny candy to be individually wrapped?
Tootsie Roll
700
Candy Canes are famous at Christmas time - what was the reason for their creation?
A choirmaster asked a confectioner to make something that would keep the children quiet during the long Christmas services. So in 1670 a peppermint flavored white stick candy was made. It wasn't until 1844 that they were given the curve (resembling the Shepards staff) and in 1900 the red stripe was added.
700
Gimme a break
KitKat
700
What US president loved jellybeans so much that Air Force One was outfitted with special jellybean holders, and was the reason Jelly Belly created a whole new flavor (blueberry) just so they could give him red, white, and blue beans?
Ronald Reagan
800
Who were the first people to drink "hot chocolate"?
The Mayans and Aztecs of modern-day Mexico drank chocolate made from ground-up cocoa seeds mixed with water, cornmeal, and chili peppers. In the 1500's it was brought to Spain and sweeteners were added but kept secret. In the 1700's it came to London where milk was added to improve the taste.
800
What is the oldest branded candy in the US?
Good and Plenty - first produced by the Quaker City Chocolate & Confectionery Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1893 
800
What holiday favorite used to take 27 hours to make back in 1953 when they were made by hand?
Peeps
800
The great American chocolate bar
Hershey's Bar
800
If you mix water and sugar at a high temperature, will the result be hard or chewy candy?
Hard - low heat gives you chewy candy