Pop Quiz!
I hear your groans. These two little words can strike terror into the heart of any student. But fear not, you won’t be graded. This quiz is for your own information to see if you know these little bits of candy trivia. So let’s get started.
Question 1: What is that little slip of paper called that sticks out of the top of a Hershey’s Kiss?
Question 2: Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by a dentist and a confectioner. What was their original name for it?
Question 3: Did you know that there are at least six flowers that smell like chocolate? Can you name one? Two? Three? All?
Question 4: How long does it take to make one Peep?
Question 5: What do the Ms in M&Ms stand for?
Question 6: What is a single square/rectangle of a Hershey’s chocolate bar called?
Question 7: What was the PEZ candy originally developed as?
Question 8: How many licks does it takes to get to the chocolate center of a Tootsie Pop?
Question 9: What are Sport Beans? And who makes them?
Question 10: How much is too much candy?
ANSWERS:
1. Nigglywiggly
2. Fairy Floss
3. Oncidium Orchid, Chocolate Daisy, Cosmos-Chocolate, Chocolate Vine, Columbine-Chocolate Soldier, & Carolina Allspice
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| Cosmos-Chocolate |
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| Chocolate Daisy |
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| Carolina Allspice |
4. It used to take 27 hours! (I don’t think that would be worth it.) With automation, it now takes six minutes. That translates to 5.5 million a day rather than the original less than one.
5. Mars and Murrie, the surnames of the two men, Forrest Mars & Bruce Murrie, who developed and financed the candy.
6. A pip
7. PEZ comes from the German word pfefferminz, which means peppermint. PEZ was created by an anti-smoking advocate in the 1920s. It was a mint to help people kick the habit. The candy’s slogan was “Smoking prohibited, PEZing allowed.”
8. According to the owl in the 1970 TV commercial, it was three, because after that he took a bite and crunched to the center.
But according to licking machines (Yes, there is such a thing), it take 364 to 411. But it take human lickers only 144 to 252.
9. Sport Beans are a line of energy beans made by Jelly Belly, containing carbohydrates, electrolytes, B vitamins, and vitamin C.
10. 262 fun-sized candy bars. According to the American Chemical Society, if a 180 lb. person ate that much, it would poison them. BUT they would throw up long before they could eat that many in one sitting, so no worries of death by candy.
Anyone else feel a diabetic coma coming on? =0)
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