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Quiz: What is the name of this penny sweet?

We’re now three weekends into Lent, and it’s time to test your resolve again.
10.00pm, 2 Mar 2024
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THERE’S NOTHING LIKE a bag of penny sweets to send your mind hurdling back to your childhood.

You might still be fond of them and have vowed off them for Lent.

We’ve already tested you with crisps and chocolates – now it’s time to test your knowledge of something sweeter.

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Cold Milk Glasses
Refreshing Wine Quarts

Fizzy Cola Bottles
Flat 7Up Bottles
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Fake Teeth
Italian Flags

Melons
Watermelon Slices
Fake Teeth
Real Teeth

Milk Teeth
My Teeth!
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Flying Saucers
UFOs

Disco Balls
Buttons
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Foam shrimp
Foam crabs

Foam prawns
Pink pillows
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Poison Snakes
Yellow Bellies

Newts
Slithery Slimes
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Blue Dolphins
Azure Trout

Navy Salmon
Lapis Bass
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Twin Cherries
Roses

Bouquets
Wishbones
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Flying Saucers
Rainbow Whites

Some might call them Snowies
Some might call them Jazzies
If you were to buy this in an Irish newsagents, what would it likely be called?
Pigs Mugs
Face of the Swine

Piggy Delish
Percy Pigs
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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You should open a sweet shop
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You've a keen knowledge, like a child in a sweet shop
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You scored out of !
You're a chocolate mouse (cute)
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You scored out of !
You are Percy Pig
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You're one to opt for healthier options
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