The
Super
Bowl
Commercials
Quiz
100

A 1992 Nike ad showed Michael Jordan playing hoops with what cartoon character?

Bugs Bunny

100

The Bud Bowl commercials showed beer bottles facing off on a gridiron. How many Bud Bowls were there?

eight

100

What percentage of the U.S. population watches the Super Bowl?

30 percent

100

About how much time is dedicated to commercials during the Super Bowl?

50 minutes

100

What company created the most-shared Super Bowl ad of all time?

Volkswagen

200

How much did an ad spot during the very first Super Bowl cost? <$100,000

$37,500

200

What was the first year that a Super Bowl ad cost more than $1 million?

1995

200

Which year was the Super Bowl first saturated with ads from online companies?

2000

200

Which car company reimagined "The Matrix" in a 2014 commercial?

Kia

200

Which product invited consumers to shoot their own commercials in hopes of airing the ads during the game?

Doritos

300

How much did companies pay for a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl in 2015? <10 mil.

$4.5 million

300

What's the most likely reason that SodaStream's commercials were rejected in 2013?

They mentioned competitors by name.

300

What was the first big-budget movie to start its marketing during the Super Bowl? (1996)

"Independence Day"

300

How long was the most expensive Super Bowl clip in history?

2 minutes

300

Which company used IndyCar driver Danica Patrick for many of its ads?

GoDaddy

400

What year did Apple's famous Macintosh ad appear?

1984

400

The most-shared ad from the 2015 Super Bowl featured a puppy and what else?

a Clydesdale horse

400

The NFL does not allow companies to advertise which product during the game?

 fireworks, distilled spirits or tobacco

400

Burger King promised a cash prize to anyone who could spot a commercial character named what?

Herb the Nerd 

The plan flopped because no one knew what Herb looked like.

400

Which famous world leader appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997?

Mikhail Gorbachev

President of the Soviet Union


 

500

How many frogs appear in the memorable Budweiser lily pad ads?

three

500

Apple's 1985 commercial compared average PC users to what?

lemmings

500

A McDonald's ad from 1993 featured which two basketball players topping each other's incredible shots?

Michael Jordan and Larry Bird

500

On average, the price of Super Bowl ads has increased by what percentage every year?

10 percent

500

In 1992 a McDonald's clip about youth football inspired which director to produce a movie?

Steven Spielberg 

Spielberg hired James Ferguson to write the screenplay for the flick "Little Giants."