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Coca-Cola Mini Quiz

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Question 1

Coca-Cola designed its famous glass contour bottle in 1915 to achieve what specific goal?

The 1915 design brief demanded a shape so distinct that consumers could recognize it by touch in the dark, or even identify the brand from broken shards on the ground.

Question 2

Coca-Cola advertisements from the 1930s helped popularize what iconic holiday image?

Before Haddon Sundblom's 1931 ad campaign, Santa was often depicted wearing green or brown. Coke's ads permanently cemented his modern, jolly image in pop culture.

Question 3

Pharmacist John Pemberton originally marketed Coca-Cola in 1886 to treat what condition?

A wounded Civil War veteran, Pemberton became dependent on painkillers and invented the original formula as a patent medicine to cure his own morphine habit.

Question 4

Pharmacist John Pemberton originally invented Coca-Cola to serve what medical function?

Pemberton was a wounded Civil War veteran who became dependent on morphine for pain. He developed the original coca-leaf and alcohol beverage as a cure for his own addiction.

Question 5

The Coca-Cola Company designed its famous glass contour bottle to achieve what goal?

To combat copycat competitors in 1915, the company requested a design so distinct it could be identified simply by touch or even if it was shattered on the ground.

Question 6

The Coca-Cola Company created the fruit-flavored soda Fanta to solve what business problem?

When Allied embargoes cut off the supply of Coca-Cola syrup to Nazi Germany, the local branch invented Fanta using available scraps like whey and apple pomace.

Question 7

Coca-Cola introduced the beverage Coke Zero in 2005 to overcome what marketing hurdle?

Because Diet Coke was strongly associated with female consumers, Coke Zero used stark black packaging and avoided the word "diet" to appeal specifically to young men.