Sweets Quiz: 40 Questions About British Sweets

September 16, 2026

Everybody has an opinion about sweets and everybody is certain theirs was better. This is the round that gets the most noise in any quiz.

Four rounds of ten, answers at the bottom.

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Round 1: the discontinued

Which Cadbury bar had a honeycomb centre and a name meaning an ancient Mexican people?
Which chewy caramel bar was advertised with a cowboy and the line 'a man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew'?
Which boiled sweets came in flavours including Old English and were discontinued in the eighties?
Which crisp brand made a hedgehog flavour that fell foul of trading standards?
Which sherbet sweet came in a yellow paper tube with a liquorice straw?
Which mint chocolate bar came in a green wrapper and was discontinued, then later revived in limited runs?
Which Cadbury bar launched in 1996 with a huge campaign and was discontinued in 2006?
Which chewy sweet was sold in a cardboard tube by Rowntree's and came in fruit flavours?
Which chocolate bar was renamed Snickers in 1990?
Which sweets were renamed Starburst in 1998?

Round 2: renamed and changed

11. What was Starburst called in the UK before 1998?
12. What was Twix originally called in the UK?
13. What did Opal Fruits' slogan promise?
14. What was the original name of the Wispa's gold variant?
15. Which Mars bar advert slogan mentioned three activities?
16. Which biscuit bar's advert told you to pick it up, with a stammer?
17. Which sweet brand's slogan was 'made to make your mouth water'?
18. Which chocolate bar's slogan was 'a finger of...'?
19. Which sweet's slogan was 'the lighter way to enjoy chocolate'?
20. Which sweet's advert featured a bird taking it from a windowsill?

Round 3: penny sweets and the shop

21. What was a quarter, in an old sweet shop?
22. Which penny sweet was a small chewy cube in a twisted wrapper, in strawberry and banana?
23. What was a flying saucer made of on the outside?
24. What were black jacks and fruit salads sold as, price-wise, in the seventies?
25. Which sweet was a hard aniseed ball that changed colour as you sucked it?
26. What was a sherbet dip dab eaten with?
27. Which chewy sweet came on a paper strip and always took some paper with it?
28. What was a gobstopper designed to do?
29. Which sweet cigarettes were renamed to something less controversial?
30. What was kept in the big glass jars behind the counter?

Round 4: chocolate and biscuits

31. Which chocolate bar has a hexagonal box and a triangular shape?
32. Which brand makes Wagon Wheels, and have they got smaller?
33. Which chocolate is named after a Latin word for milk?
34. Which biscuit is famously argued to be a cake for tax purposes?
35. Which Cadbury egg appears in shops earlier every year?
36. Which chocolate bar contains bubbles and shares its name with a sound?
37. Which selection box chocolate is a hazelnut in a gold wrapper?
38. Which chocolate orange do you tap and unwrap?
39. Which tin of chocolates has a famous purple one?
40. Which biscuit brand's advert involved a dunk and a moment of tension?

Answers

1 The Aztec bar. 2 The Texan bar. 3 Spangles. 4 Hedgehog Crisps. 5 The Sherbet Fountain. 6 Aero Mint - accept any sensible mint bar. 7 Cadbury Fuse. 8 Fruit Pastilles. 9 Marathon. 10 Opal Fruits.
11 Opal Fruits. 12 Raider. 13 'Made to make your mouth water.' 14 Wispa Gold. 15 Work, rest and play. 16 Penguin. 17 Opal Fruits. 18 Fudge. 19 Milky Way. 20 Milk Tray, with the man rather than a bird - accept Milk Tray.
21 A quarter of a pound, weighed out. 22 A Fruit Salad or a Black Jack - accept either. 23 Rice paper. 24 Four for a penny at various points. 25 An aniseed ball. 26 A liquorice stick. 27 Candy buttons. 28 Last a very long time. 29 Candy sticks. 30 Loose sweets, weighed by the quarter.
31 Toblerone. 32 Burton's - and yes, they have. 33 Milka, from the German for milk. 34 The Jaffa Cake. 35 The Creme Egg. 36 Aero. 37 Ferrero Rocher. 38 Terry's Chocolate Orange. 39 Quality Street, with the purple one. 40 McVitie's, with the Hobnob and digestive dunk adverts.

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How to write it so it lands

The sweets round always produces the most shouting.
Accept near-misses generously - names changed constantly.
A bowl of old-fashioned sweets on the table while you run it is worth it.

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Frequently asked questions

What sweets were discontinued in the UK?

Spangles, Texan bars, Aztec bars, Nestle Secret, Cadbury Fuse, Banjo, Pacers and Cabana are among the most missed. Several have been brought back briefly and withdrawn again.

What were Starburst called before?

Opal Fruits, until 1998, with the slogan 'made to make your mouth water'. Marathon became Snickers in 1990 in the same wave of global renaming.

Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit?

A cake, legally. McVitie's won a 1991 VAT tribunal by arguing that it goes hard when stale, as cakes do, rather than soft, as biscuits do.

Do you sell sweets?

No - we make greeting cards, prints and pin badges. This page is here for the arguing.

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