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Food and Drink Quiz

Test your food and drink knowledge with 100 multiple-choice questions across five rounds. The mix takes in familiar ingredients, world dishes, cheese, baking and drinks, with an answer revealed after every choice. Play a round yourself or use the question list for a food-themed quiz night.

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Set 1 · Food & drink

Easy
Who invented the first ever chocolate bar, in 1847?
Answer: Joseph Fry
Easy
What alcoholic drink is made from molasses?
Answer: Rum
Easy
According to the nursery rhyme, what fruit did Little Jack Horner pull out of his Christmas pie?
Answer: Plum
Easy
What texture does Gruyere cheese traditionally have?
Answer: Hard
Easy
In what country did the Cheddar cheese originate?
Answer: England
Medium
What alcoholic drink is mainly made from juniper berries?
Answer: Gin
Medium
What meat does a proper Irish breakfast usually include?
Answer: Pork
Medium
Which of these is a traditional Japanese breakfast dish?
Answer: Natto
Medium
Which of these foods is generally poached in white wine?
Answer: Fish
Medium
What meat is traditionally consumed at Christmas in Mexico?
Answer: Turkey
Hard
What vegetable is the main ingredient of the popular Spanish soup called Gazpacho?
Answer: Tomato
Hard
Pigs are known for their ability to smell what food really well?
Answer: Truffles
Hard
What term is used to denote a trained and knowledgeable wine professional?
Answer: sommelier
Hard
What type of meat is used for the preparation of the French dish called Pot-au-feu?
Answer: Beef
Hard
What type of bread is the German bread variety called Dampfnudel?
Answer: White bread
Very hard
What vegetable is used for the making of the popular Portuguese and Brazilian soup called Caldo verde?
Answer: Cabbage
Very hard
What kind of food is Amasi, a meal very popular in South Africa?
Answer: Fermented milk
Very hard
Sugar on snow is a popular New England treat. It is boiled maple syrup cooled in snow and placed on sticks. Which food item is not traditionally served with this candy?
Answer: Shortbread cookies
Very hard
Which of these is not among the traditional ingredients used for the making of the Japanese dish Nikujaga?
Answer: Seaweed
Very hard
The juice of what fruit is used in the preparation of the very popular cocktail Blue Hawaii?
Answer: Pineapple

Set 3 · Food & drink

Easy
What nationality were the people who first introduced chocolate to Europe?
Answer: Spanish
Easy
What type of milk is the Grana Padano cheese made from?
Answer: Cows milk
Easy
Which of these is not the equivalent of what Americans often call head cheese?
Answer: Kumiss
Easy
What famous Israeli liqueur comes in a genie shaped bottle and has a distinctive chocolate/orange flavor?
Answer: Sabra
Easy
What is the Native American sauce Mole de Cacahuate, or Peanut Mole, traditionally served with?
Answer: Chicken
Medium
In what country did the recipe for the Tiramisu cake originate?
Answer: Italy
Medium
In what country is a cake called Pink Panther very popular?
Answer: Spain
Medium
What type of food is the French delicacy called Andouillette?
Answer: Sausage
Medium
In what country did the Damper bread variety originate?
Answer: Australia
Medium
What is the main ingredient of the traditional Indonesian meal called Rendang?
Answer: Meat
Hard
What kind of meat is traditionally used for the preparation of the Vietnamese soup called Pho?
Answer: Beef
Hard
What type of meat is used for the preparation of the Chinese meal called Char siu?
Answer: Pork
Hard
What unripened fruit is used for the preparation of the spicy Thai salad Som tam?
Answer: Papaya
Hard
What unusual ingredient does the traditional Indonesian food called Lawar contain?
Answer: Raw pig blood
Hard
The German dish Weihnachtsgans is usually prepared from a whole stuffed animal. What animal is used?
Answer: Goose
Very hard
What are the ingredients of the cold Spanish soup Gazpacho?
Answer: Stale bread, garlic, olive oil, salt, tomato and vinegar
Very hard
What is the meaning of the Spanish word vainilla, from which the name of the spice vanilla originated?
Answer: Little pod
Very hard
What chemical present in the grapefruit gives it its unique taste and flavor?
Answer: Sulfur
Very hard
What is the meaning of the phrase Ropa vieja, which denotes a traditional dish very popular in Cuba?
Answer: Old clothes
Very hard
Which of these dishes is a traditional Mexican dish, prepared out of a tortilla dipped in a sauce, containing peppers?
Answer: Enchilada

Set 4 · Food & drink

Easy
What type of meat is used for the preparation of the traditional Indonesian dish called Betutu?
Answer: Chicken
Easy
Lactose is a type of sugar consisting of two subunits (galactose and glucose), found primarily in what food?
Answer: Milk
Easy
What kind of drink is the traditional Native American beverage called Champurrado?
Answer: Chocolate drink
Easy
The first industrial production of cheese in the world started in 1815, in which country?
Answer: Switzerland
Easy
Which is the only US state famous for producing limburger cheese in the Chalet Cheese Co-op factory?
Answer: Wisconsin
Medium
When was Wonder Bread first marketed in the USA as pre-sliced bread?
Answer: 1930
Medium
What dish is traditionally served for breakfast in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam?
Answer: Soup
Medium
Which of these is a Polish beer brand, established in 1629?
Answer: Tyskie
Medium
In what Asian country did the recipe for the Miso soup originate?
Answer: Japan
Medium
What item from the Japanese tea ceremony equipment is the chakin?
Answer: A cloth
Hard
The seeds of which of these herbs are the key spice in Indian curries?
Answer: Coriander
Hard
What soft drink brand has the same name as a Native American tribe of Northern California?
Answer: Shasta
Hard
The dish called American fried rice is not in fact American. Where was it created?
Answer: Thailand
Hard
The traditional Malayan breakfast dish Nasi lemak includes soaking rice in what?
Answer: Coconut cream
Hard
What is the general term used for the food that is forbidden by the Jewish dietary laws?
Answer: Treif
Very hard
What other name is commonly used to refer to sweet and sour sauce in China?
Answer: The peoples sauce
Very hard
Sushi, the icon of Japanese cuisine, is characterized by which of the following?
Answer: Specially prepared rice
Very hard
Why was the passion fruit given this interesting name?
Answer: It has a religious connotation.
Very hard
The term cenosillicaphobia, related to drinking beer and alcohol as a whole, means what?
Answer: A fear of an empty glass
Very hard
What is the meaning if the word kibbeh which refers to a popular dish in the Arab world and in Brazil?
Answer: Ball

Set 5 · Food & drink

Easy
The mixture of hot cream and melted chocolate is called ganache. What does the French word ganache literally mean in English?
Answer: fool
Easy
What kind of cheese is one of the ingredients of the Insalata Caprese salad?
Answer: Buffalo mozzarella
Easy
Which of these types of chocolate is based on cocoa butter, but does not contain cocoa solids?
Answer: White chocolate
Easy
The American company "Campbell's" is most well known for making what food product?
Answer: Canned soups
Easy
What type of food is Pancetta?
Answer: bacon
Medium
What popular herb is added to the Mojito cocktail for a refreshing flavor?
Answer: Mint
Medium
What word means a baked dish made mainly of eggs and milk?
Answer: Quiche
Medium
What was the soft drink Pepsi originally introduced as?
Answer: Brad's Drink
Medium
Earl Grey tea is black tea flavoured with what?
Answer: Bergamot oil
Medium
When was the first loaf of sliced bread sold?
Answer: July 7, 1928
Hard
Zopf is a type of Swiss bread traditionally consumed on Sunday mornings. What does its name mean?
Answer: Braid
Hard
What is sometimes served along with the thick tea called koicha at the Japanese tea ceremony?
Answer: Tobacco
Hard
What is the taste of the popular Indonesian soup called Sayur Asem?
Answer: Sweet and sour
Hard
What is the name used for black tea in Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages?
Answer: Crimson tea
Hard
What type of meat is used for the preparation of Basashi, a popular Japanese dish?
Answer: Horse meat
Very hard
The leaves of which of these plants are most often used for the preparation of the popular Arab dish dolma, also known as sarma?
Answer: Grape vine
Very hard
The first sales of the Coca Cola drink were made at Jacobs Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, in what year?
Answer: 1886
Very hard
The scientific name of the evergreen tree cacao, the source of cocoa and chocolate, is Theobroma Cacao. What does ‘Theobroma’ mean in Greek?
Answer: ‘food of the gods’
Very hard
Who was the Greek god of wine?
Answer: Dionysus
Very hard
What Roman Emperor, who ruled from 54 to 68, ordered ice to be brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit toppings?
Answer: Nero

Questions adapted from Open Trivia Database and OpenTriviaQA, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected, filtered and arranged into fixed rounds. Sources & editorial notes.

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