The Chicken or the Egg Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hydrox

Hydrox is a creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie debuted in the United States in 1908. It was made by Sunshine Biscuits Company for over 90 years. Oreo was introduced by Nabisco on March 6, 1912. Oreo soon became so popular that people thought that the Hyrox cookie was a copy of the Oreo.

Answer: Backstreet Boys

The Backstreet Boys were formed in 1993 in Orlando, Florida. Some of their songs include "We've Got It Goin' On", "As Long as You Love Me", "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)", and "I Want It That Way". NSYNC was first formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995.

Some of their songs include "I Want You Back", "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", "This I Promise You", and "Bye Bye Bye".

Answer: Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang was introduced in 1964. It ranks as the fifth best selling car in Ford's history. The Ford Bronco is an SUV that was first introduced in 1965. They were sold from 1966 to 1996 and then re-introduced in 2021.

Answer: Post Grape Nuts

Post Grape-Nuts was created by C.W. Post in 1897 and sold that same year. Will Keith Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in 1906. Actually, it is said that while C.W. Post was a patient at the Kellogg Sanitarium run by Dr. John Kellogg, he helped out in kitchen and noticed how the patients there enjoyed the granola cereal created by John Kellogg.

When Post left the sanitarium, he took with him the recipe for the cereal. Post tweaked the recipe by adding sugar and sold it as Grape Nuts.

Answer: safety pin

American mechanical engineer Walter Hunt invented the safety pin in 1849. Safety pins are used to fasten pieces of fabric or clothing together. They are made from spring steel wire with a tip cover that protects the user from getting poked by the needle point. Dynamite is an explosive made from nitroglycerin and was invented by Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in 1866.

Answer: pop-up toaster

Charles Perkins Strite invented the pop-up toaster in 1921. While working at a manufacturing plant in Stillwater, Minnesota, he noticed that the cafeteria there kept burning toast in the old style toasters. He added a pop-up spring timer and coils that would toast both sides of the bread at the same time. SPAM was invented by Hormel Foods in 1937.

The company did it to help sell pork shoulders that weren't selling very well.

Answer: WHAM-O Slip 'N' Slide

Wham-O introduced the Slip 'N Slide in 1961. It was invented by upholsterer Robert Carrier after he saw his son sliding on his wet concrete driveway after a rain. The Super Ball was invented by chemist Norman Stingley and introduced by the Wham-O company in 1965. It is made of an extremely high-bouncing synthetic rubber called Zectron.

Answer: Silly Putty

Silly Putty was accidentally invented in 1943 by James Wright. Wright was an engineer working for General Electric and was searching for a synthetic rubber substitute for tires during World War II. Mr. Potato Head was invented by George Lerner in 1949 and sold by Hasbro in 1952.

The toy was originally sold with just the plastic body parts and used with real potatoes. Mr. Potato Head was also the first toy sold using TV advertising.

Answer: Leave it to Beaver

"Leave it to Beaver" first aired in 1957. It starred Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, and Jerry Mathers. The first season was in 1957, then dropped from the CBS lineup, then ABC picked up the show and aired it from October 2, 1958 to June 20, 1963. "The Donna Reed Show" originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1958 to March 19, 1966.

It starred Donna Reed, Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares, Paul Petersen, and Patty Petersen.

Answer: White Castle

White Castle was founded in 1921, in Wichita, Kansas. It is credited as the world's first fast food hamburger chain. The little burgers known as 'sliders' first sold for five cents in 1921. McDonalds was founded in San Bernardino, California by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald.

In 1954, Ray Kroc joined the brothers and helped to franchise the brand nationwide. In 1961, Kroc bought the brothers out and transformed McDonald's into the world's largest restaurant chain.