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Commercial Trivia

Uncover jaw-dropping advertising secrets that will blow your mind! From million-dollar Super Bowl spots to iconic jingles stuck in your head for decades โ€” these incredible commercial facts will shock you with their surprising stories.

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What brand uses 'The Quicker Picker Upper' as its tagline?

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Which soup brand's slogan is 'Mm! Mm! Good!'?

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What snack brand's commercials warn that 'Once You Pop, You Can't Stop'?

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What cleaning product mascot is a bald, muscular man in a white T-shirt?

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What candy brand's commercials claim it 'Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands'?

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Which company aired the 'Dilly Dilly' commercials starting in 2017?

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Which tech company's 1999 Super Bowl commercial featured a marching band that catapulted the company into mainstream awareness?

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What brand of cat food uses the slogan 'Meow Meow Meow Meow' in its jingle?

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What 1990s campaign for milk featured celebrities with milk mustaches?

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In what year did subliminal advertising become a national controversy after James Vicary claimed he flashed 'Drink Coca-Cola' during a movie?

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What battery brand features a pink bunny that 'keeps going and going'?

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What razor brand's slogan is 'The Best a Man Can Get'?

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Which advertising agency created the Volkswagen 'Think Small' campaign in 1959, widely considered one of the greatest ads ever?

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What brand mascot is an anthropomorphic dough character who giggles when poked in the belly?

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Which luxury car brand coined the advertising phrase 'The Ultimate Driving Machine'?

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What was the name of the actor who voiced the original Tony the Tiger in Frosted Flakes commercials from 1952 to 1953?

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Which advertising pioneer created the Jolly Green Giant, the Pillsbury Doughboy, and Tony the Tiger characters?

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Which airline used the advertising slogan 'Fly the Friendly Skies'?

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Which famous commercial jingle goes 'Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh What a Relief It Is'?

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What hot dog brand has commercials featuring the 'Oscar Mayer Wiener' song?

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What credit card company asks 'What's in Your Wallet?'?

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Which toy brand's jingle includes the lyrics 'The fun is in your hands'?

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What potato chip brand dared consumers 'Bet You Can't Eat Just One'?

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What cosmetics company uses the tagline 'Because You're Worth It'?

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Which actor portrayed 'The Most Interesting Man in the World' in the original Dos Equis campaign from 2006 to 2016?

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What was the total advertising revenue for television in the United States in 1950, the dawn of TV advertising?

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What brand of chicken uses the slogan 'Finger Lickin' Good'?

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What State Farm Insurance jingle starts with 'Like a good neighbor...'?

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Which famous 1980s commercial featured an elderly woman named Clara Peller, and what was her age when she filmed it?

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Which actress starred in a famous 1966 Noxzema shaving cream commercial with the tagline 'Take It Off, Take It All Off'?

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What brand of paper towels uses a lumberjack character named Brawny Man?

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What year did the first 'Got Milk?' commercial air featuring a man unable to answer a radio trivia question?

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Which pop star appeared in a series of Pepsi commercials in the 1980s and suffered a scalp burn during filming in 1984?

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Which mascot appears on boxes and commercials for Kool-Aid?

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How many individual Clydesdale horses does Budweiser maintain in its breeding program at Warm Springs Ranch in Missouri?

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Which fast food chain launched the 'Whopper Detour' campaign in 2018, offering 1-cent Whoppers to people near McDonald's locations?

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What product did the 'Mikey Likes It' Life Cereal commercial advertise, first airing in 1972?

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Which jewelry store chain's commercials end with the jingle 'Every Kiss Begins with Kay'?

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Which fast food chain's ads feature a red-haired girl as its logo and mascot?

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How much did the very first TV commercial cost to air โ€” a 10-second Bulova watch ad on WNBT on July 1, 1941?

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What drink brand's commercials feature the slogan 'Got Milk?'?

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What was the first brand to use a celebrity endorsement in advertising, hiring Queen Victoria's image in 1875?

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In what year did the Noxzema 'Take It Off' shaving cream commercial first air, making Gunilla Knutsson a household name?

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Which advertising executive is credited with inventing the concept of a 'brand image' in his 1955 speech 'The Product and the Brand'?

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What year did the US government ban cigarette advertising on television and radio?

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What company launched the 'Most Interesting Man in the World' campaign in 2006?

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Which household cleaner brand features the 'Scrubbing Bubbles' animated mascots in its commercials?

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Which company introduced the 'Marlboro Man' campaign in 1955, originally to rebrand filtered cigarettes as masculine?

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What was the original name of the Mr. Clean mascot when he debuted in 1958?

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Which shipping company uses the slogan 'When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be There Overnight'?

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What year did the 'Where's the Beef?' Wendy's commercial debut, eventually becoming a catchphrase used in the 1984 presidential race?

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How much did a 30-second commercial slot cost during the first Super Bowl broadcast in 1967?

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In the famous VW 'Think Small' campaign of 1959, who was the art director who created the revolutionary minimalist design with mostly white space?

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Which holding company is the largest advertising conglomerate in the world by revenue as of 2023?

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What laundry detergent brand's commercials feature the challenge of removing tough stains with the 'Tide Pod' product?

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Which 2000 Super Bowl commercial featured a sock puppet and is considered one of the most iconic dot-com era ads before the company went bankrupt?

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What was the original jingle composer's name who wrote the McDonald's 'I'm Lovin' It' jingle, performed by Justin Timberlake, in 2003?

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Which country runs the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the most prestigious award show in advertising?

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What was the original title of the song featured in Coca-Cola's famous 1971 hilltop commercial?

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Which company's 'Real Beauty' campaign, launched in 2004, challenged traditional beauty standards in advertising?

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What brand of gum used the slogan 'Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun'?

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Which comedian became famous for saying 'I can't believe I ate the whole thing' in a 1972 Alka-Seltzer commercial?

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What luxury brand's commercial became famous for featuring Brad Pitt staring into the camera in 2012?

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Which advertising executive wrote the 1963 book 'Confessions of an Advertising Man' and is considered the father of modern advertising?

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What detergent brand's mascot is a white teddy bear named Snuggle?

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Which singer performed the famous Pepsi 'Joy of Pepsi' commercial in 2001?

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What toy's TV commercial jingle starts with 'The best part of waking up...'?

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Which advertising agency coined the term 'Unique Selling Proposition' (USP) in the 1940s?

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What animal does the Aflac insurance company use as its mascot in commercials?

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In what year did the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first require that TV commercials be truthful and not misleading?

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What cereal mascot is a cartoon tiger who says 'They're Gr-r-reat!'?

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What was De Beers' famous advertising slogan that helped popularize diamond engagement rings starting in 1947?

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What was the first paid internet banner ad, which appeared on HotWired.com on October 27, 1994?

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Which soft drink brand is most associated with polar bear commercials during the holidays?

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What brand of toilet paper uses bears in its TV commercials?

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Which cereal brand uses a leprechaun mascot who guards 'magically delicious' cereal?

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What classic 1971 soda commercial was filmed on a hilltop in Manziana, Italy, and featured young people singing about world harmony?

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Which 1969 Volkswagen commercial showed a snow-plow driver starting his Beetle to drive to work and plow roads, with the tagline 'Have you ever wondered how the man who drives the snowplow drives to the snowplow?'?

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Which fast food chain uses the slogan 'I'm Lovin' It'?

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What was the original price that the Geico gecko campaign was supposed to cost before it became a long-running series, when it debuted in 1999?

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What Wendy's commercial from 1984 became a cultural phenomenon with the catchphrase 'Where's the Beef?'?

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What was the exact cost of a 30-second ad during the very first televised World Cup in 1970?

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What home improvement store uses the slogan 'You Can Do It. We Can Help.'?

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What was the name of the spokes-character for Planters peanuts, introduced in 1916?

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In what year did the Energizer Bunny first appear in a commercial, parodying rival Duracell's existing bunny ads?

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Which athletic brand's commercials feature the tagline 'Impossible Is Nothing'?

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What breakfast cereal's slogan is 'Silly Rabbit, Trix Are for Kids'?

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What iconic 1979 Coca-Cola commercial featured Pittsburgh Steelers player 'Mean Joe' Greene tossing his jersey to a young fan?

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Which celebrity couple starred in Pepsi's 2003 Super Bowl 'Gladiator' commercial, set in a Roman colosseum?

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What was the total global digital advertising spend in 2023, surpassing traditional media for the first time in terms of majority share?

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What famous advertising character was created in 1898 and is one of the oldest brand mascots still in use for Michelin tires?

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Which auto insurance company's commercials feature a character named Flo?

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What was the average cost of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial in 2024?

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What was the name of the fictional country club featured in the Grey Poupon 'Pardon Me' commercial that first aired in 1981?

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Which insurance company uses the tagline 'You're in Good Hands'?

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What was the name of the animated Trix rabbit who first appeared in commercials in 1959?

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Which advertising legend created the 'I Love New York' campaign in 1977, working with graphic designer Milton Glaser?

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Which beer brand became famous for its 'Wassup?' commercial in 1999?

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What car rental company's slogan is 'We Try Harder'?

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What was the first commercial aired during the very first Super Bowl in 1967?

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Which 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, aired during Super Bowl XVIII?

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Which real-life cowboy who appeared as the Marlboro Man died of lung cancer in 1992, becoming an anti-smoking advocate before his death?

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What skincare brand promises that its soap is '99.44% pure'?

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What was the name of the actor who played the original lonely Maytag repairman starting in 1967?

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What was the name of the specific regulation, passed in 1965, that first required health warnings on cigarette packaging and ads in the United States?

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Which brand's ads feature a spokesperson who says 'Can you hear me now?'?

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Which tire company used the slogan 'Where the Rubber Meets the Road'?

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Which candy bar used the tagline 'Hungry? Grab a Snickers'?

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Which company created the controversial 'United Colors' advertising campaign featuring multiracial imagery in the 1980s?

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What iconic print ad campaign featured a distinguished man wearing an eyepatch, created for Hathaway shirts in 1951?

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Which country was the first to ban all television advertising directed at children under 12, doing so in 1980?

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What was the approximate click-through rate of AT&T's first internet banner ad on HotWired in 1994?

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Which sporting event is famous for having the most expensive TV commercials each year?

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What was the name of the child actress who appeared in the famous 1972 Life Cereal 'Mikey' commercial?

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What was the name of the first advertising agency in the United States, established in Philadelphia in 1841?

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What was the name of the first woman to head a major advertising agency, founding Wells Rich Greene in 1966?

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What famous tagline was coined by advertising legend David Ogilvy for Rolls-Royce in 1958?

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What was the name of the Budweiser Clydesdale Super Bowl commercial that aired after 9/11, showing horses bowing toward New York City?

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Which cereal mascot is a vampire who appears in Count Chocula commercials?

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What product did the 'Clapper' commercial famously advertise with the jingle 'Clap On! Clap Off!'?

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What was the production budget for Apple's famous '1984' Macintosh Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott?

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What famous 1990s commercial featured Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny teaming up?

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How many seconds long was the shortest Super Bowl commercial ever aired, a 2009 Miller High Life ad?

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Which company spent the most on advertising globally in 2023, with approximately $8.8 billion in ad spending?

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What cereal's mascot is a cuckoo bird who goes 'Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs'?

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What was the profession of the Maytag repairman, a character in commercials starting in 1967 known for being bored because appliances never broke?

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What was the first product advertised on YouTube, which appeared as the platform's first pre-roll ad in August 2007?

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Which brand's 1973 commercial became the most-aired ad in television history, with its 'Give Me a Break' Kit Kat jingle?

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What brand of men's body wash launched the viral 'Smell Like a Man, Man' campaign starring Isaiah Mustafa in 2010?

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What year was the first Budweiser Clydesdale horses commercial aired during the Super Bowl?

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In what year did the 'Share a Coke' campaign launch, replacing the Coca-Cola logo with popular first names on bottles?

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In what year did the iconic Absolut Vodka bottle-shaped print ad campaign begin, eventually running for 25 years?

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Which brand's 2011 Super Bowl commercial featured a child dressed as Darth Vader trying to use the Force on a car?

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Which breakfast brand's slogan is 'Leggo My Eggo'?

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Which brand uses the catchphrase 'Snap! Crackle! Pop!'?

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Which brand uses the tagline 'Just Do It'?

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What was the exact date Apple's '1984' Macintosh commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII?

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What was the exact Nielsen rating of the 1980 'Who Shot J.R.?' Dallas episode, which set records for commercial advertising revenue?

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Which creative director at Chiat/Day conceived the idea for Apple's '1984' commercial and fought to keep it on air after Apple's board wanted to pull it?

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Which Taco Bell commercial from the late 1990s featured a talking Chihuahua?

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What was the first product ever advertised on television in the United States, aired in 1941?

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Which 1993 commercial is credited with coining the term 'Super Bowl ad' as a cultural event, featuring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird playing horse for a Big Mac?

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Which hotel chain uses the tagline 'We'll Leave the Light On for You'?

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Which brand's tagline is 'Taste the Rainbow'?

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Which brand's commercials feature the jingle 'Ba Da Ba Ba Bah'?

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Which electronics brand uses the tagline 'Think Different'?

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What was unique about the Old Spice 'The Man Your Man Could Smell Like' campaign that launched in 2010?

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What percentage of Super Bowl viewers in 2024 said they watched primarily for the commercials rather than the game, according to Ad Age surveys?

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Which actor plays the 'Mayhem' character who personifies accidents in a major insurance company's commercials?

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Which insurance company uses a gecko as its mascot in commercials?

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