Food Edition
Jif peanut butter or Smucker's jelly?
Smucker's jelly (1897)
(Smucker's bought Jif (1955) from Proctor & Gamble)
200 bonus if someone in your group had a pb and j sandwich today at lunch.
Silly Putty or Silly String?
Silly Putty (1949)
Silly String (1972)
500 points if you know which one was intended to be a spray-on instant cast for broken bones.
Dodge or Ford?
Dodge (1900)
Ford (1903)
Give another team 500 of your points.
iMac or iPod?
iMac (1998)
iPod (2001)
Take 400 points from another team.
Palmolive or Dawn?
Palmolive (1898)
Dawn (1973)
Bonus 500 points just because.
Wonder Bread or Oscar Mayer bologna?
Oscar Mayer (1883)
Wonder Bread (1921) was the first company to introduce "pre-sliced bread" (1930)
300 bonus points if your group sings Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Lincoln Logs or Legos?
Lincoln Logs (1916)
Legos (1949)
400 bonus points if you know what state Abraham Lincoln was born in.
Rolls-Royce or BMW?
Rolls-Royce (1906)
BMW (1916)
300 point bonus if you know what Rolls-Royce helped to develop.
Pagers or cordless phones?
Pagers (1949)
Cordless phones (1977)
500 point bonus if you know what Alexander Graham Bell wanted to say when answering the first phones.
Microwaves or color televisions?
Color TV (1953)
Microwave (1972)
Give another team 400 of your points.
Oreos or Chips Ahoy!?
Oreos (1912), even though they are a ripoff of Hydrox cookies (1908).
Chips Ahoy! (1963)
Take 300 points from another team for not dunking their Oreos in milk.
Barbie or Raggedy Ann dolls?
Raggedy Ann (1920)
Barbie (1959)
300 point bonus if someone in your group owns a Barbie.
The Volkswagen Beetle or the Ford Mustang?
Volkswagen Beetle (1938)
Ford Mustang (1964)
Take 400 points from the other groups.
First camera phone or first Airbag?
Airbag (1973)
Camera phone (1999)
Lose 400 points for needing to use the airbag.
Mr. Clean or Pine Sol?
Pine Sol (1929)
Mr. Clean (1958)
400 bonus points if you know what color hair Mr. Clean has.
Del Monte or Dole?
Dole (1851)
Del Monte (1886)
300 bonus points if you know where Dole was founded.
Tickle Me Elmo or Furby?
Tickle Me Elmo (1996)
Furby (1998)
Lose 500 points even if you get it correct.
Massey Ferguson or John Deere?
John Deere (1837)
Massey Ferguson (1958)
300 bonus points if you know John Deere colors.
Seatbelts or FM radio?
FM Radio (1933)
Seatbelts (1949)
500 point bonus if you know when seatbelts became mandatory in all cars. I will give you the points if you are within 10 years of the correct year.
Radios installed in cars or vinyl records?
Radios installed in cars (1922)
Vinyl records (1945)
The other groups get 500 points for not picking this question.
Lipton or Kool-Aid?
Lipton (1890)
Kol-Aid (1927)
Swap points with another team.
Monopoly or Battleship?
Battleship (1931) originally debuted as a piece of paper and pencil game.
Monopoly (1935)
200 bonus points if you know how much you collect for passing Go in Monopoly.
Greyhound bus or the San Francisco cable car?
Cable car (1873)
Greyhound bus (1914)
400 bonus points. True or False, Cleveland used to have cable cars.
Satellite radio or a full-sized flat screen TV?
TV's (1988)
Satellite radio (1999)
Lose 400 points
Ceiling fans or paper towel rolls?
Ceiling fans (1882)
Paper towels (1931)
400 bonus points if everyone in your group sings the alphabet song.
Sprite or Mountain Dew?
Mountain Dew (1940)
Sprite (1961) 500 point bonus if you know where Mt Dew was created.
Boggle or Trivial Pursuit?
Boggle (1972)
Trivial Pursuit (1979)
500 bonus points if you can unscramble this word to make a word using all the letters.
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Ferrari or Fiat?
Fiat (1899)
Ferrari (1939)
Give both groups 200 of your points.
First laptop or first Game Boy?
Laptop (1981)
Game Boy (1989)
Take 300 points from another team.
Electric dishwasher or electric hand mixer?
Hand mixer (1885)
Dishwasher (1929)
Take 200 points from the other groups.
Burger King or Wendy's?
Burger King (1953)
Wendy's (1969) 600 point bonus if you know where Wendy was founded.
Slinky or Play-Doh?
Slinky (1943)
Play-Doh (1955)
400 bonus points if you know what Play-Doh was created to do.
Carnival Cruise Line or Royal Caribbean?
Carnival (1972)
Royal Caribbean (1997)
400 bonus if anyone in your group has been on a cruise.
CB Radio or Polaroid instant cameras?
CB Radio (1945)
Polaroid instant cameras (1948)
400 bonus points for your group if everyone yells cheese.
Window unit Air Conditioners or automatic ice makers?
A/C (1945)
Ice makers (1953)
Give the other groups 200 points from your total points.
Oscar Meyer Hot Dogs or Ball Park Hot Dogs?
Oscar Meyer Hot Dogs (1978)
BAll Park Hot Dogs (1957)
500 bonus if you know which baseball stadium served the first hot dogs at a baseball game.
Etch-A-Sketch or Teddy Bear?
Teddy Bear (1902)
Etch-A-Sketch (1960)
300 point bonus if you know who the Teddy Bear was named after.
The Sea-Doo or the Ski-Doo?
Ski-Doo (1959)
Sea-Doo (1968)
500 bonus points if you know the name of the detective dog owned by Shaggy.
Personal Computer or music CDs?
PC (1971)
CDs (1982)
500 bonus points if everyone in your group sings Old McDonald had a farm with a chicken.
Radio alarm clock or electric razor?
Electric razor (1898)
Radio alarm clock (1940)
400 bonus points if you can pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. 300 extra points for each person who tries from another group. Lose 300 points for every person who tries from your group.
Totino's Pizza Rolls or Hot Pockets?
Totino's Pizza Rolls (1951)
Hot Pockets (1983)
300 bonus points if your group sings the Hot Pockets theme song.
Transformers or G.I. Joe?
G.I. Joe (1964)
Transformers (1984)
Lose 400 points for being a robot in disguise.
Honda or Kia Motors?
Kia (1944)
Honda (1946)
400 point bonus if anyone in your group's family owns a Honda.
1st Generation iPhone or the Nintendo Wii?
Nintendo Wii (2006)
iPhone (2007)
Give another group 400 of your points for playing Wii when you should have been doing your homework.
Electric clothes dryer or electric clothes iron?
Iron (1882)
Dryer (1938)
Give 300 points to another team.
Pepperidge Farm or Hillshire Farm?
Hillshire Farms - "Tyson Foods" - (1934)
Pepperidge Farm - "Campbell's" - (1937)
Give 300 of your points to another group.
Mario or Pac-Man?
Pac-Man (1980)
Mario (1983)
1000 bonus points if you know Mario's last name.
Delta or American Airlines?
Delta (1925)
American Airlines(1926)
400 bonus points if you know who the first brothers to fly a plane were.
Coin-operated telephone or coin-operated restrooms?
Coin-operated telephone (1889)
Coin-operated restrooms (1889)
Sorry, unless you guessed the same year, you lose 1000 points.
Amazon Echo or Google Home?
Amazon Echo (2015)
Google Home (2016)
Alexis didn't hear you correctly. Lose 500 points.