285 Food Trivia Questions To Celebrate Good Eatin' (Mega Quiz Edition)

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275 Food Trivia Questions And Answers To Celebrate Good Eatin’

Food and Drink Trivia Questions and Answers

What food is a Bratwurst?

Answer: German sausage.

What is the name of the scale used to measure the spiciness or heat level of a pepper?

Answer: Scoville scale.

Which fatty acid is found in many types of fish and is considered to be a major health benefit?

Answer: Omega-3.

Black Forest cake originates from which country?

Answer: Germany.

The 100 folds in a chef’s hat represent which of the following — 100 ways to cook an egg, 100 chefs that influenced modern cooking, or 100 French pastry types?

Answer: 100 ways to cook an egg.

What fast food chain sells its iconic Crazy Bread?

Answer: Little Caesars.

What fast food chain sells Chicken Fries?

Answer: Burger King.

Where was the hamburger first created?

Answer: Hamburg, Germany (it started as a minced beef style dish)

Visiting which fast-food joint has become a Christmas tradition in Japan?

Answer: KFC.

A pestle is one-half of a common pair of kitchen utensils used for grinding spices. What is the name of the bowl used to grind the ingredients?

Answer: A mortar.

What is the main ingredient in falafel?

Answer: Chickpea.

What is yellowtail fish called in Japanese?

Answer: Hamachi.

What was the first cash crop in America?

Answer: Tobacco.

What lobster organ is made into a delicacy known as “tomalley”?

Answer: Liver.

Which cereal grain is the most commonly used in beer?

Answer: Barley.

Pupusas are from what country?

Answer: El Salvador.

Where did the croissant originate?

Answer: Austria.

From which country do French fries originate?

Answer: Belgium.

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What year was In-N-Out Burger founded?

Answer: 1948.

What is the national alcoholic beverage of America?

Answer: Bourbon whiskey.

What are imitation crab sticks made of?

Answer: Whitefish.

What is Elvis Presley’s most well-known favorite food?

Answer: A peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich.

Which beverage giant bought Vitamin Water from Glaceau in 2007?

Answer: Coca Cola.

Which type of meat is consumed the most globally?

Answer: Pork (If China is excluded, then chicken becomes the most consumed type of meat globally.)

What food ingredients make up an affogato?

Answer: Affogato is an Italian dessert made of ice cream and coffee.

Gherkin is another word for what in the US?

Answer: Pickle (Gherkin is the word for pickle in British English).

What ingredients are in a shepherd’s pie?

Answer: Potatoes, minced meat, carrots, peas.

What do people call “eggplant” in the UK?

Answer: Aubergine.

What is the national dish of England?

Answer: Chicken tikka masala.

In which country did Cheesecake originate?

Answer: Greece.

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Name one other vegetable in the same family as the Chinese vegetable, gai lan.

Answer: Kale, collard greens, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Which two flavors are combined in a Banoffee Pie?

Answer: Banana and toffee.

The first pies, mostly made of meat, were called what?

Answer: “Coffins” or “coffyns” (the word actually meant a basket or box–these were savory meat pies with crusts or pastry shells).

In Britain, French Fries are “chips,” and chips are what?

Answer: Crisps.

Hawaiian pizza was created in what country?

Answer: Canada.

What was America’s first fast food restaurant?

Answer: White Castle. Most historians agree that White Castle was the first fast-food outlet, starting in Wichita, Kansas in 1916.

What fast food chain is best known for its menu items such as the Cherry Limeade, Ched ‘R’ Peppers, and corn dogs, as well as its carhop service?

Answer: Sonic.

What annual eating contest sponsored by Nathan’s is held every Fourth of July at Coney Island in New York?

Answer: Hot dog eating contest.

What is the name of the Beverly Hills bakery founded in 2005 by Candace Nelson, a judge on TV’s Cupcake Wars?

Answer: Sprinkles.

What color apron signifies a Coffee Master at Starbucks, meaning a barista has taken extra courses in coffee knowledge and preparation?

Answer: Black.

How many white squiggly loops appear at the top of every single Hostess Cupcake–7, 8, or 9?

Answer: 7.

Which New Jersey city is the original home of Carlo’s Bake Shop, where TV’s Cake Boss Buddy Valastro layers on cakey magic?

Answer: Hoboken.

Which country begot the largest white truffle ever found, which weighed a staggering 4.6 pounds and sold at Sotheby’s for over $61k in 2014?

Answer: Italy.

A dozen of which brand of doughnuts must be eaten en route by each runner in an annual race at North Carolina State University?

Answer: Krispy Kreme.

What coffee beans, among the world’s most expensive, are grown in the mineral-rich lava fields of the Mauna Loa and Hualalai volcanoes?

Answer: Kona coffee.

What common caged pet in the US is a mainstay in the diet of Peruvian people, who consumed 65 million of them in 2004?

Answer: Guinea pig.

Which Vermont ice cream company, sold to Unilever in 2000, donates its ice cream waste to local farmers to feed their hogs?

Answer: Ben & Jerry’s.

If you’re ever in the mood for a Big Buford Burger or Famous Seasoned Fries in a black-and-white cup, you have two convenient options where you could get them: what are they?

Answer: Checkers Drive-In or Rally’s Hamburger. Checkers and Rally’s started out as entirely different fast-food chains before they merged to form a single franchise in 1999.

If you order a Jersey Mike’s sandwich Mike’s Way, what are you getting?

Answer: Mike’s Way means making a sandwich with onions, lettuce, tomatoes, spices, and a blend of olive oil and red wine vinegar. This is what differentiates Jersey Mike’s from the others.

What is the logo of a Toblerone chocolate bar?

Answer: A snowy mountain peak (meant to depict the Matterhorn in Switzerland).

Which kind of chocolate is healthiest–dark, milk, or white?

Answer: Dark; dark chocolate usually is the least processed, meaning it has the most antioxidant-like flavonoids, which may help lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

In 2017, a chocolate company in Belgium introduced a new type of chocolate with natural pink color. What do you call this type of chocolate?

Answer: Ruby chocolate.

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What main ingredients make up a Milky Way?

Answer: Nougat, topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate.

What main ingredients make up a Snickers bar?

Answer: Nougat topped with caramel and peanuts encased in milk chocolate.

What beer brand had a series of commercials featuring a man known as “The Most Interesting Man in the World”?

Answer: Dos Equis.

Which beer brand is known for its “King of Beers” slogan?

Answer: Budweiser.

What beer brand is often associated with the “Toucan” in its advertisements?

Answer: Guinness.

Which country is known for its “pub culture,” where people gather in traditional pubs for beer and socializing?

Answer: United Kingdom.

The ninth Aztec Emperor, Montezuma II (1466–1520 CE), called what drink “the divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food”?

Answer: Hot chocolate (cacao).

In which US city was Ghirardelli founded?

Answer: San Francisco, California.

If you wanted a higher level of caffeine in your coffee drink, what type of roast would you opt for?

Answer: Light roast.

What kind of grind would you be using if you wanted to make coffee in a French press?

Answer: Coarsely ground.

What kind of grind would you be using if you wanted to make an espresso?

Answer: Finely ground.

What is a tomato–a fruit or vegetable?

Answer: A fruit.

What is the name of the fast food chain that is famous for its chicken sandwiches and is known to be closed on Sundays?

Answer: Chick-fil-A.

What is the name of the fast food chain that is famous for its burritos and burrito bowls with meat options such as sofritas and barbacoa?

Answer: Chipotle.

What is the name of the fast food chain that is famous for its halal food carts in New York City?

Which Iron Chef, who asked for an Easy-Bake oven at the age of 5, brought his famed New York City eatery Mesa Grill to Vegas in 2004?

Answer: Bobby Flay.

Which Oscar-nominated 2000 film stars Juliette Binoche as a mysterious woman who opens up a confectionery shop in a small town of France?

Answer: Chocolat.

What 2014 Jon Favreau indie flick features a chef and his ex-wife, played by Sofia Vergara, cooking up a storm in a Miami food truck?

Answer: Chef.

On which Food Network series do contestants transform mystery baskets of ingredients into appetizers, entrees, and desserts?

Answer: Chopped.

What cup size, meaning “thirty” in Italian, was introduced by Starbucks in 2011 for 31-ounce cold beverages?

Answer: Trenta.

The people of what country are the largest consumers of cheese worldwide?

Answer: Greece.

In which European country was the first cheese factory established?

Answer: The first cheese factory was established in Switzerland in 1815.

Which Atlanta-based tea store did Starbucks buy in 2012–Mighty Leaf, Adagio Teas, or Teavana?

Answer: Teavana.

McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets actually come in four different shapes–what are they?

Answer: Bone, Bell, Boot, and Ball.

What kids’ snack, packaged in small boxes with Barnum & Bailey circus graphics, comes in 19 different shapes?

Answer: Animal Crackers.

Arachibutyrophobia is the feat of what sticking to the roof of your mouth?

Answer: Peanut butter.

In the Middle Ages, wealthy women used a combination of water and what fruit as blush?

Answer: Strawberries.

What region of Italy would you visit if you wanted to taste the freshest Prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, and aged balsamic vinegar?

Answer: Emilia Romagna.

If you’re looking to eat a pastel de nata from its origin country, where would you go?

Answer: Portugal.

Momiji tempura is a popular snack in Japan during the autumn season made out of what main ingredient?

Answer: Japanese maple leaves.

Answer: Hot chocolate (cacao).

True or false: White chocolate is technically considered chocolate.

Answer: False. Because it doesn’t contain chocolate solids, white chocolate isn’t technically chocolate. What it does contain is extracted cocoa butter, vanilla, milk products, sugar, and lecithin.

What percentage of the world’s cocoa supply comes from Africa–30, 50, 70, or 95?

Answer: 70%.

While Aztec commoners could only afford to enjoy chocolate during special occasions, people of what other chocolate-obsessed civilization had it with every meal and often threw chili peppers or honey into the mix?

Answer: Mayans.

In 2018, researchers trying to study how acoustic waves might affect cheese development did what to nine giant wheels of Emmental cheese?

Answer: Separated them and played them music with different genres like classical, rock and hip-hop. The cheeses were exposed to the music 24 hours a day over six months.

In both ancient Greece and the European Middle Ages, a practice known as “tyromancy” was popular, which meant you would be using what food for divination purposes?

Answer: Using cheese to predict the future.

Mochi Ice Cream originated from which Asian country?

Answer: Japan–the idea came to the CEO of the Mochi Ice Cream brand when her husband began eating small portions of ice cream and wrapping them with mochi.

What is the official state snack of Texas?

Answer: Chips and Salsa.

What is the official state snack of South Carolina?

Answer: Boiled peanuts. Boiled peanuts are believed to have been brought to America by African slaves before the Civil War, and are considered an important part of South Carolina’s culture and history.

Turkish delights are most commonly paired with what beverage?

Answer: Coffee or tea.

Roquefort is a blue cheese from which country?

Answer: France.

Can you list the components of a traditional English breakfast?

Answer: Beans, toast, mushrooms, tomatoes, potatoes, bacon, eggs, black pudding.

Can you name three US states that are known to produce some of the best BBQ in the country?

Answer: Tennessee, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina.

Which East Coast state named calamari its official state appetizer?

Answer: Rhode Island.

While it may seem like 2-liter soda bottles have been around forever, they were first designed by which soda company?

Answer: PepsiCo in 1970.

While it’s somewhat common knowledge that early versions of Coca-Cola contained cocaine, which soda brand’s formula used to contain prescription mood stabilizers upon its launch in 1929?

Answer: 7Up — specifically, a drug known as lithium citrate, which is used in modern times to treat conditions such as bipolar disorder.

While most plastic bottles of Coca-Cola boast a red cap that matches their classic color scheme, in the spring you may notice bottles with yellow caps appearing on shelves. What does the yellow cap mean?

Answer: That yellow cap signifies that the drink is kosher for the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Which kind of wine is often paired with fish?

Answer: Dry white wine.

Which European country is the largest wine producer in the world by volume?

Answer: Italy.

Which European country banned most beers for most of the 20th century?

Answer: Iceland. Like many places, Iceland experimented with prohibition, banning wine, liquor, and beer in 1915. The law was mostly repealed in 1933, but kept beer limited to 2.25% alcohol; full-strength brews weren’t allowed until March 1, 1989!

In diner lingo, to “pin a rose on” an order means to do what: add ketchup, slather with mayo, add onions, or add fresh tomatoes?

Answer: Add onions.

Redheaded snowboarder _______, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, is nicknamed the “Flying Tomato.”

Answer: Shaun White.

What were donuts originally called? Oily cakes, fried dough, doughies, or fritters?

Answer: Oily cakes. The doughnut made its first appearance in North America in 17th-century New York City, then a Dutch colony known as New Amsterdam. This fried dough recipe was known in Dutch as olykoeks, or “oily cakes.” However, oily cakes were missing one important innovation of the modern doughnut — the hole in the center. That particular characteristic didn’t take shape until the 19th century.

Which fruit was once so valuable in the 1700s that people rented them for parties?

Answer: Pineapples. Back then, pineapples were a sign of wealth. Prior to the 20th century, when pineapple plantations made the fruit widely available, pineapples were incredibly expensive imports to Europe (and most other places). In the 18th century, a single fruit bought in Britain could cost upwards of $8,000 in today’s money.

How many wine bottles are there in a typical case?

Answer: 12 bottles.

What type of wine is known for its pinkish color and is made by removing the grape skins early in the fermentation process?

Answer: Rosé.

In 1945, the two founders of which ice cream chain launched their ice cream store with 31 flavors of ice cream to choose from (one for every day of the month)?

Answer: Baskin-Robbins. Baskin-Robbins has since created thousands of different flavors, but always makes sure to have 31 of them available to customers at any given time.

Which coffee brand was founded by John Puckett after he was inspired by a trip to Denali National Park in Alaska?

Answer: Caribou Coffee.

What coffee chain, originally starting as a push cart with an espresso machine in Oregon, is now known for its convenient drive-thru locations and unique drinks?

Answer: Dutch Bros. Coffee.

Which coffee brand introduced its iconic “Ice Blended” drinks in 1987 after an employee brought a blender to the store?

Answer: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

What beverage-related idiom refers to sharing juicy gossip or exclusive information with someone?

Answer: “Spilling the tea.”

Which food-related phrase is used to describe someone who spends a lot of time being inactive and watching TV?

Answer: “Being a couch potato.”

What beverage-related idiom suggests there’s no point in being upset over a small, irreversible mistake?

Answer: “Crying over spilled milk.”

What is the term used for 13 items, based on an old practice by bakers to avoid shortchanging customers?

Answer: “A baker’s dozen.”

Which food-related idiom advises skepticism when hearing something that might not be fully true or trustworthy?

Answer: “Taking it with a grain of salt.”

What food-related phrase is used to describe something that is considered groundbreaking or extremely useful, comparing it to a 1920s kitchen innovation?

Answer: “The greatest thing since sliced bread.”

What food-related phrase represents the desire to have two things at once that are mutually exclusive?

Answer: “To have one’s cake and eat it too.”

And that about wraps up this post–we hope you enjoyed our food trivia questions and answers!

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