packages of varied candiesMandy Turkalj won this selection of sweets by demonstrating knowledge of song titles that rhyme with candy.

Contest winner earns sugary prize

Mandy Turkalj may have had a head start in figuring out the answers in Wednesday’s DailyNews trivia contest. Asked to identify songs whose titles rhyme with “candy,” she was rhyming her own name.

In the end, Turkalj’s entry was drawn from all those which correctly identified “Brandy” as a 1972 hit for Looking Glass, “Randy” as a song from Dolly Parton’s album Jolene, “Mandy” as Barry Manilow’s first gold single, “Sandy” as a John Travolta ballad from Grease, and “Handy” as Weird Al Yankovic’s parody of Iggy Azalea.

Turkalj, assistant to the associate dean of education for graduate studies and research, will receive a prize of chocolate macaroons, marshmallow strawberries, fruit mix hard candies, and sweet and sour gummies, ju jubes, and watermelon slices.