Candy in the Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Reese's Pieces

When Amblin Productions approached Mars about using their product M&Ms in the motion picture "E.T.", the candy giant turned down their offer. Undaunted, Steven Spielberg made a better offer to Hershey (the maker of Reese's Pieces) which accepted. Under the agreement, the candy manufacturer paid nothing for the product placement but promises a million dollars' worth of linked advertising for the placement. Thus wee Elliott used Reese's Pieces to lure the diminutive space man.

Answer: Forrest Gump/Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks portrayed Forrest Gump in the 1994 film. In the scene where this line appears, he says he was quoting his mother. This quotation (available on tee shirts and coffee mugs) provides a guiding philosophy for Forrest's life. When something bad happens, one need only think of the box-of-chocolates principle to put things back into proper perspective.

Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Inventor Caractacus Potts creates a candy with holes in it, a sort of edible whistle. When he tries to sell his invention to Lord Scrumptious, the father of his love interest Truly Scrumptious, they discover that blowing the whistle attracts dogs from all around. During WWI, British soldiers in France used the words "toot sweet" to mean right away or promptly. In French, "touts de suite" means instantly or quickly. The song "Toot Sweets" figured in both the motion picture (1968) and the musical theatre versions (2002, 2005) of the story.

Answer: they have less artificial colouring

McConaughey plays Steve Edison, a medical doctor, who saves the life of wedding planner Mary Fiore, played by Jennifer Lopez. They go to a movie screening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. He begins to sort through a bag of M&Ms and eat only the brown ones.

When asked why, he explains that, because they are already brown, there must be less artificial food colouring in them. Caveat: this is not a medical fact; don't get your medical advice from romantic comedies.

Answer: Baby Ruth

Chunk says "Hey, mister. Are you hungry? I got a Baby Ruth." Sloth responds "Ruth! Ruth! Baby! Ruth!" and so their alliance begins. Baby Ruth is an American candy bar made by the Ferrara Candy Company. It is a center of peanuts, caramel and nougat surrounded by compound chocolate. Baby Ruth also figures in "Caddyshack" (1980), "Hellboy" (2004) and "Four Brothers" (2005).

Answer: sherbet lemon/lemon drops

Professor Dumbledore has a favourite candy. In the British editions of the "Harry Potter" books, it is called "sherbet lemon" and in the American editions it is called "lemon drops." He brought some with him on the night in 1981 when he and Professor Minerva McGonagall left baby Harry with the Dursleys.

His offer of some to her was declined. He used the name of the candy as a password to his office in 1992. They are a lemon-shaped hard candy with either a fizzy lemon powder in the center or sour lemon sugar on the outside or both.

Answer: Turkish delight

Edmund Pevensie is induced by the White Witch to eat her Turkish Delight which has magical properties. It makes him hungry for more and dependent upon her. She uses it to trick him into bringing his family to her. The original word for Turkish delight is "lokum" which means something like sweet morsel.

The modern version of it was invented by Bekir Effendi in Istanbul in 1776. It is a mixture of starch and sugar to which flavours (rose, lemon, orange, cinnamon, mint) and nuts (pistachio, hazelnut, walnut) may be added.

Answer: Milky Way

The lads are at a house party when the world starts to end: sink holes open, earthquake, fire and riot. Not being transported directly to Heaven themselves, they need to take stock of what they have on which to survive. The list is paltry but does include one (!) Milky Way bar. What six guys do about that scarcity would be a spoiler.

Answer: Lex Luthor

Jesse Eisenberg's interpretation of Lex Luthor goes full-on millennial with its references to Jolly Ranchers hard candy. Jolly Ranchers are made by Hershey. Lex rewards the senator with a cherry-flavoured Jolly Rancher.

Answer: The novel and first movie were first

Roald Dahl's novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was published in 1964. It described Wonka Bars -- chocolate bars made from a waterfall of chocolate in Willie Wonka's candy factory. The first movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" came out in 1971.

The candy bar was introduced in 1976. The second movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was released in 2005 and the Broadway musical in 2013. The chocolate bars came a cropper in 2013.