McDonald's: I'm Lovin It! Trivia Quiz

Answer: red, yellow, and white

Ronald usually wears red shoes with yellow laces and black soles. He wears stockings with red and white stripes, and yellow overalls with the McDonald's logo over a shirt with the same striped pattern as his stockings.

Answer: A video game

Their video game was called "M.C. Kids", or "McDonald Land" in the United Kingdom. It was released for the NES, Gameboy, and several different types of computers. In "M.C. Kids", two teenagers enter a new world to find Ronald McDonald's magical bag. The game had seven levels, and had a format that resembled some of the games in the Mario Brothers series.

Answer: "America's breakfast-lunch-dinner."

"McDonald's is your kind of place." was first used in 1967, and "Food, folks, and fun." was created in 1990. "Make every day a McDonald's day." was a slogan made in 1994 that was only used in South Africa.

Answer: Bill Clinton

The Big Mac was their signature food for many years. There was actually an unofficial slogan for McDonald's made in 1975 by Mark Vieha about their Big Macs: "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun." The jingle was also used as a tongue twister, and it soon became well-known as a McDonald's catchphrase.

Answer: $640,000

Stella Liebeck filed charges against McDonald's after receiving third-degree burns from a cup of McDonald's coffee spilling on her lap on February 27, 1992. She originally wanted only 20,000 U.S Dollars, but McDonald's refused her offers many times, and soon lost 640,000 U.S. Dollars. The jury decided on an award of 2.9 million dollars, but the judge reduced the outrageous amount.

Answer: Brazil

Even though both Brazil's and Portugal's primary language is Portuguese, Brazil calls them "Happy McSnacks", while Portugal simply say "Happy Meals". The German Happy Meal used to be called "Junior Tüte", or "Bag for Juniors", but they're also called Happy Meals nowadays.

Answer: 22

This happened at a McDonald's restaurant in San Diego, California, where James Oliver Huberty shot 21 people and injured 19. He was then shot by a SWAT team member stationed a good distance away from the shooting. Huberty had eaten at McDonald's just hours before the shooting. Three years later, his wife unsuccessfully sued McDonald's, stating that the poisonous metals at McDonald's caused her husband to go on such a rampage.

Answer: 24.5

"Super Size Me" was a documentary, which showed what happens when Morgan Spurlock eats nothing but McDonald's three times a day for 30 days. In the movie, one can tell Morgan is getting worse as the days go by, and more people (including his girlfriend) are becoming more disgusted by what he is doing. Spurlock also experiences many liver problems and sexual dysfunction. Spurlock talks to many doctors, and all of them tell him that his health is forever damaged, and even if he lost the weight, many fatal health problems could occur.

However, after fourteen months of being back to his healthy vegan diet, Morgan Spurlock lost back his weight. Almost all of the weight was lost back in the five months after the challenge ended.

Answer: Kuwait City, Kuwait

The line at the drive-thru was seven miles long on opening day. There is a McDonald's restaurant in over 100 countries worldwide.

Answer: False

The characters were charged as being plagiarized from H.R. Pufnstuf. Ronald McDonald was not charged in court as a plagiarized character, but others such as Mayor McCheese were. McDonald's had to pay a fine, and several characters were forced to leave their advertising campaigns.

Answer: It won't have a strip of Canadian bacon on it.

To respect any vegetarians, a "McMuffin" will not contain bacon. The American "McMuffin" is called the "Bacon Egg McMuffin" in the UK.

Answer: Scotland

Many people thought their last name was Irish because it's a very common last name in Ireland. But, people figured out that their great-grandparents in the early 1800s originated from Glencoe, Scotland.

Answer: Friedman

Thomas Loren Friedman wrote "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" in 1999, which contained this quote in clear text. He used the quote to make a point of how larger countries are trying to make peace with each other to avoid serious consequences, but the franchise is growing rapidly, and the literal statement is not at all true.

Answer: Hamburger University

It is used as a place to train students to become franchisees to support their business. It was founded in 1961, and now has over 5,000 people attending. Burger King later created their own training grounds called Burger King University in the 1970s.

Answer: 25th

Many famous professional athletes have participated in the all-star game like Michael Jordan, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Kevin Garnett, and LeBron James. The players are chosen by coaches, scouts, and the media. Millions of dollars have been donated to Ronald McDonald House Charities thanks to the games.

Answer: Panama, Belgium, South Korea, Iceland, Sri Lanka

Panama opened its first McDonald's in the early 1970s; followed by Belgium opening one in the late 70s; then South Korea in the late 80s; a McDonald's in Iceland in the early 90s, and lastly, a restaurant open for business in Sri Lanka in the late 1990s. In its first couple decades of business, McDonald's restaurants were only available in the United States and Canada.

Answer: False

There is a McDonald's in the small village of Best in the Netherlands that has a giant statue of Michael Jackson in the parking lot. It also has a Marilyn Monroe statue inside the facility.

Answer: Don Gorske

George Cohon is the founder of McDonald's Canada and McDonald's Russia. Eric Schlosser authored the book against the fast food industry, "Fast Food Nation". Allan Pederson was a man in Denmark who named his small food stand McAllan's, but McDonald's lost the case accusing him of violating copyright laws and was ordered by the court to pay $6,900. Don Gorske was also the first man to eat a Big Mac in each of the 50 states, and ate a remarkable 741 (about two a day) Big Macs in 2003 alone.

Answer: A fired cashier at a McDonald's gave the idea to get rehired after meeting a clown at a circus named Ronnie backstage.

George Voorhees and Terry Teene were said to have created the costume for the clown, and Voorhees then dressed as him at a McDonald's in Los Angeles, California. The other rumor was that Willard Scott (who also dressed as Bozo the Clown for his local station) was hired to improve the advertising campaign for McDonald's, and he thought of Ronald McDonald. Ronald was imagined in the early 1960s, and was first shown on television in 1963.

Answer: seven

"Save a fortune on laundry bills. Give your dirty shirts to Oxfam. They will wash and iron them, and then you can buy them back for 50p." McDonald's used the same three sentences in their slogan, only they replaced "Oxfam" in the second sentence with "a second-hand shop". McDonald's used their version in 1996 in an advertisement.

Answer: Australia

Because coffee shops attracted many customers, McDonald's decided to give a café feeling to the interior. McCafés are not in all of their over 30,000 restaurants worldwide, but a large fraction of them in Australia (especially Tasmania) have McCafés.

Answer: Philippines

The Philippines used "love ko 'to", which means "I love this.", while on the other hand both Suriname and Japan used "I'm lovin' it." Luxembourg used "ich liebe es" (German) that means simply, "I love it." in English.

Answer: Monopoly

This group of people did not only activate the scheme in this contest, but many other smaller ones held by McDonald's. 51 people were arrested in the scandal including the ring-leader, Jerome P. Jacobsen, even though only the first eight were reported on television.

Answer: fifty billion

Dick McDonald served both the first and 50,000,000,000th burger at McDonald's. Sadly, Mac McDonald died of cancer thirteen years before this glorious event. Dick later passed away on July 14, 1998.

Answer: True

The stand was named the Airdome and opened in 1937 in Monrovia, California. Then three years later, their first drive-thru was built in San Bernadino, California.