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Trivial Pursuit ... The M&M'sTM Way
Join the fun! Use your browser to travel to the M&M'sTM official website to discover interesting facts about these delicious bits of chocolate. Print out the worksheet and start your pursuit of these historical facts!
Pursuit #1: Who was first seen eating pellets of chocolate with a hard surgary coating?
Pursuit #2: What year were M&M's first sold to the public?
Pursuit #3: What were used as containers to package the first M&M's that were sold?
Pursuit #4: When did people first hear the famous slogan, "The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand?"
Pursuit #5: Why were red candy M&M's pulled off the market in 1976? What year were red M&M's added back? Why was it added back?
Pursuit #6: What year were M&M's added to the space shuttle astronauts' food supply?
Pursuit #7: What year did the packaging of the candies change from a cardboard tube to the brown pouch we buy today?
Pursuit #8: In 1995 Americans voted for a new color to appear in the traditional M&M's Chocolate Candy Mix. What were the four choices people could vote? Which color won? Out of every 100 votes, how many Americans voted for that color?
Pursuit #9: Why did the M&M's Characters proclaim themselves the "Official Spokescandies of the New Millennium?"
Pursuit #10: How many years have Americans been able to purchase M&M's candies?
BONUS QUESTION: Name the American who invented the recipe for the M&M's Plain Chocolate Candies.
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