For The Love Of Jelly Beans Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fairfield

The man responsible for coining the name for this treat is David Klein. He created the concept for the single-flavored jelly bean in the mid-1970s. The former name for the company was the Herman Goelitz candy company. The current head of the company, the senior chairman named Herman G. Rowland Sr., is in the fourth generation of descendants of confection-making.

Answer: North Chicago, IL / Pleasant Prairie, WI

The Jelly Belly company sports over 800,000 square feet of production space between these two locations and the one in Fairfield, CA. Also of note, the buying public loves the product so much that worldwide annual production is in excess of 34 million pounds. So many satisfied sweet tooths worldwide!

Answer: Ronald Reagan

President Reagan, who called Tampico, IL his place of birth in 1941, and who was the first President to pass away in the 21st century, passing peacefully in 2004, was noted for as much as his prowess as a Presidential power as his comedic sensibilities and acting. With regard to his love for these jelly beans, he not only kept them in his office, but also on Air Force One, the official plane of the leader of the US!

Answer: Red and Yellow

Mr. Jelly Belly has been the official face of the Jelly Belly company since his cartoonish image was introduced to us in the mid-1990s. He is represented on any literature or product that the company issues, including the variety boxes you see in many supermarkets and confectioner shops worldwide!

Answer: Lemon

The citrus fruit known as the lemon has many practical uses with regards to food and drink, including lemonade, found everywhere from your local grocer to the kid at the end of your street selling fresh-squeezed lemonade at little makeshift stands for 25 cents a glass! Its zest is popular as an accompaniment for items we cook and bake daily. Like many fruits, it is green in its unripened state.

Answer: A&W Cream Soda

The Jelly Belly company also offers A&W Root Beer as one of the regular flavors. That A&W company, which got its start back in 1919, and had Roy Allen as its founder, only had their signature Root Beer flavor until 1986, when Cream Soda became a part of its repertoire. Root Beer or Cream Soda are also popular in tandem with vanilla ice cream, known as a float. Boy, does one of those floats sound good right about now!

Answer: Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy was first exhibited to the public on a large-scale at the World's Fair in St. Louis, MO in 1904. The confection is most commonly pink in color, but can also be blue or tan, among others. It melts in the mouth really easily, is so sugary, but kids will never have enough of it! And as a really big surprise, this treat actually has a National Cotton Candy Day in the United States on Dec. 7th!

Answer: Pina Colada

The drink known as a Pina Colada is a delicious tropical combination of pineapple and coconut. The company also offers these as two of their standard flavors, more specifically the crushed flavor variety of pineapple. Not surprisingly, the Pina Colada is the official beverage of the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, and has been so since 1978!

Answer: Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Pie is not only eaten at Thanksgiving time in the US, it is also consumed by some on Christmas as well. It has been featured in song, one of them being "There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays". In an amazing feat, the folk of New Bremen, OH in 2010 baked what is known as the World's Largest Pumpkin Pie, weighing in at a hefty 3,699 lbs! Man, that's hard to imagine!

Answer: Cinnamon

The use of cinnamon goes back to the ancient history of the Egyptian and Hebrew cultures, among others. The trees that we get the cinnamon bark from are grown in S.E. Asia. We commonly use the powdered form of cinnamon bark to flavor teas, spicy candies, cocoas, and liqueurs.

It can also be made into a liquid flavoring, sold in tiny concentrated bottles, and that flavoring is used for baking purposes, among others.