# 🍨 Dippin' Dots Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What is the self-proclaimed slogan of Dippin’ Dots?  
**Answer:** The Ice Cream of the Future  
**Taglines:**  
- Still futuristic, still in mall kiosks  
- Time travelers eat vanilla too  
- 1992 called—they still believe  
- The future: frozen, overpriced, delicious  
- Bold claim for tiny spheres of dairy  

### 2. Who invented Dippin’ Dots?  
**Answer:** Curt Jones  
**Taglines:**  
- Ice cream’s Walter White  
- The man who froze your childhood  
- Curt Jones: microbeads and megadreams  
- Cold scientist, hot idea  
- Bill Nye meets Baskin-Robbins  

### 3. In what year were Dippin’ Dots invented?  
**Answer:** 1988  
**Taglines:**  
- Born in the decade of neon and bad perms  
- 1988: freeze-dried dreams begin  
- Older than most TikTokers  
- Retro-future, but make it edible  
- The '80s really went all in on weird  

### 4. What process gives Dippin’ Dots their unique shape?  
**Answer:** Cryogenic freezing  
**Taglines:**  
- Liquid nitrogen for snack science  
- Freeze your taste buds and your dignity  
- Cryogenics: not just for Walt Disney  
- Future tech meets fudge ripple  
- Because normal freezing is for amateurs  

### 5. What major limitation has kept Dippin’ Dots from wide-scale grocery store sales?  
**Answer:** Requires ultra-cold storage  
**Taglines:**  
- Needs a freezer colder than your ex  
- Too cool for conventional shelves  
- It’s not you—it’s the nitrogen  
- Logistics nightmare, sprinkle dream  
- Dippin’ Dots: freezer divas  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Dippin’ Dots must be stored at around ______ degrees Fahrenheit.  
**Answer:** -40  
**Taglines:**  
- Frostbite-friendly fun  
- -40: where thermometers give up  
- Chillier than your landlord’s heart  
- Ice cream that bites back  
- So cold it skips brain freeze and hits soul freeze  

### 2. The company that makes Dippin’ Dots is headquartered in ______, Kentucky.  
**Answer:** Paducah  
**Taglines:**  
- Paducah: sounds fake, is real  
- Frozen or fried—Kentucky’s got both  
- Sweet home, cryo cream  
- This small town brings big chill  
- Paducah: population cold  

### 3. Dippin’ Dots are made by flash-freezing ______ cream.  
**Answer:** Liquid  
**Taglines:**  
- Flash! Ahhhhhh! Savior of the swirl  
- From slosh to dot in seconds  
- Cream: now with drama  
- Liquid dreams, frozen schemes  
- It starts wet, ends cool  

### 4. The ice cream must be eaten quickly to prevent ______.  
**Answer:** Melting  
**Taglines:**  
- Blink and it’s soup  
- Time is dairy’s enemy  
- Eat fast or face the puddle  
- Ice cream speedrun  
- Drip happens  

### 5. In 2011, Dippin’ Dots filed for ______ protection.  
**Answer:** Bankruptcy  
**Taglines:**  
- Ice cream meltdown: literal and financial  
- Too cool to succeed  
- Dots got dropped  
- When future desserts go past due  
- Chapter 11: The Revenge of Vanilla  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What is the texture of Dippin’ Dots often compared to?  
A) Pebbles  
B) Sand  
C) Beads ✅  
D) Ice cubes  
**Taglines:**  
- Pebbles you can eat without judgment  
- Beads: not just for Mardi Gras anymore  
- Ice cream that crunches before it melts  
- Feels weird, tastes right  
- Childhood in bead form  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Which of these flavors is a real Dippin’ Dots option?  
A) Cotton Candy ✅  
B) Grilled Cheese  
C) Bacon Maple  
D) Hot Sauce  
**Taglines:**  
- Cotton Candy: the unicorn of ice cream  
- Flavored like a circus, without the trauma  
- Not everything needs meat in it  
- Spicy dots? Get out.  
- Dippin’ Dots: still meatless, mostly  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What food trend are Dippin’ Dots often grouped with?  
A) Farm-to-table  
B) Molecular gastronomy ✅  
C) Veganism  
D) Keto  
**Taglines:**  
- Molecular: because ice cream wasn’t complicated enough  
- Like science class, but tasty  
- Not your grandma’s scoop  
- Gastronomy with goggles  
- The only dot you want in your mouth  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Which amusement location most famously sells Dippin’ Dots?  
A) Airports  
B) Museums  
C) Zoos ✅  
D) Hospitals  
**Taglines:**  
- Monkey see, monkey scoop  
- Ice cream and giraffes—perfect date  
- Dippin’ Dots: fueling sugar highs near animal cages  
- Admission + dessert = chaos  
- More common than pandas  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What company purchased Dippin’ Dots in 2012?  
A) Hershey’s  
B) Nestlé  
C) Fischer Enterprises ✅  
D) PepsiCo  
**Taglines:**  
- Fischer: fishing for cold profits  
- Ice cream investors know no chill  
- New boss, same dots  
- Bought the dots, kept the weird  
- Capitalism scoops again
