How much do you know about food?! Test your knowledge with 50 Food Trivia General Knowledge Questions plus 5, 10 question quiz rounds about World Foods, Weird and Wacky foods, a true or false round, food anagrams + a food picture quiz.

We all love to eat but how much do you know about food? Do you prefer breakfast or dessert? Home-cooked food or eating out? Do you have a favorite dish or simply love to cook for friends and family? Or just love all things food related?! Well, have we got the food trivia quiz for you!

Test your knowledge with our ultimate food and drinks trivia. There are 6 different rounds: 50 Food General Knowledge questions and answers, a World Foods quiz where we give you the name of the dish and you have to tell us which country it is associated with, Food Anagrams, A True or False round, A Wierd and Wacky Food Round and finally a World Food Picture Round with 9 images of famous foods and dishes from around the globe.

We’ve also included links to other food and drink quizzes that focus on a specific category – such as cheese, baking, desserts, wine, cocktails etc. to help you build your own pub quiz if you need a few extra quiz rounds or more variety!

50 Ultimate Food Trivia Questions and Answers (General Knowledge)

1. What is added to Brandy to produce Cointreau?
Orange

2. What is the Hungarian word for pepper?
Paprika

3. If you saw ‘chou-fleur’ on a French menu which vegetable would the dish include?
Cauliflower

4. What is added to grain whisky to produce Southern Comfort?
Peach

5. ‘Scrag End’ is the name for a cut of which type of meat?
Lamb or Mutton 

6. What are ‘Haricot Beans’ also known as?
Cannellini Beans or Navy Beans

7. What is considered to be the world’s oldest alcoholic drink?
Mead

8. What are the four main constituents of a Waldorf salad, which are usually dressed in mayonnaise and served on a bed of lettuce?
Celery, Apples. Walnuts and Grapes

9. What is the maximum number of Michelin Stars that can be awarded to a restaurant?
Three

10. With which country do you associate Retsina?
Greece

11. Which popular snack/appetiser takes its name from the local word for “lids”?
Tapas

12. What gives Windsor Red cheese its colour and flavour?
Red Wine

13. Which chemical compound, several hundred times sweeter than sugar, is used as a substitute for it?
Saccharin 

14. What sort of meat is used in the Greek dish Kleftiko?
Lamb

15. What general name is given to Indian food cooked in a clay oven?
Tandoori

16. What is the name of the substance used as a setting agent in some jams and marmalades?
Pectin

17. What are Cheshire, Gouda and Gorgonzola?
Cheese

18. What is the name of a two-coloured oblong cake covered with almond paste?
Battenburg

19. How are fizzy wines, other than champagnes, described?
Sparkling

20. What name is given to smooth yoghurt, which translated from the French, literally means ‘fresh cheese’?
Fromage Frais

21. Retsina is native to which country?
Greece

22. Rick Stein, the TV chef from Cornwall, is known for his recipes containing mainly what?
Fish

23. What are the three styles of port?
Ruby, Tawny and Vintage

24. What type of house are hops dried in?
An oast-house 

25. Crawley Beauty, Forge and First and Last are varieties of which fruit?
Apples

26. Which chocolate bar sells the most in the world?
Snickers

27. What famous product did Cerebos manufacture?
Cooking Salt

28. What has been done to an oyster if it has been shucked?
It has been opened

29. What is the covering of a Battenburg Cake made from?
Marzipan

30. How is Steak Tartare cooked?
It isn’t – it is served raw

31. What soup is served in Scotland at a Burn’s Night supper?
Cock a Leekie

32. What type of fish is included in Worcestershire Sauce?
Anchovies

33. What type of alcoholic drink is Tio Pepe?
Sherry

34. Black Velvet is a mixture of stout and which other alcoholic drink?
Champagne

35. What is Adam’s Ale commonly known as?
Water 

36. What is the name of the world’s hottest pepper – ranked by the Guinness Book of Records?
Carolina Reaper

37. Of the following fast food restaurants, which is the oldest?
A. McDonald’s.
B. A&W. 
C. White Castle.
D. KFC

38. What is the national dish of Italy?
Ragu alla Bolognaise (not Spaghetti Bolognaise!)

39. Which country produces the most olive oil?
Spain

40. What is the Japanese name for raw fish?
Sashimi

41. In Scotland, what is traditionally served with Haggis?
Neeps and Tatties

42. A ‘Beef Wellington’ is the signature dish of which Celebrity chef?
Gordon Ramsay

43. What is the collective noun for mussels?
A Bed

44. Which popular food did Thomas Jefferson introduce to the United States of America?
French Fries

45. What type of food would you find at a French ‘boulangerie‘?
Bread (and pastries, but to hold the title of Boulangerie in France, they must bake their own bread on premise and their primary function is as a bakery.)

46. True or False: Green olives are just unripened black olives.
True

47. What is the oldest chocolate bar in the world?
Fry’s Chocolate Cream Bar (from 1866!)

48. What is known as the ‘King of fruits’?
Durian

49. Kiwi Fruits originated in which country?
China

50. In American Food trends, what is the most popular pizza toppings?
Pepperoni

 

World Food Trivia Questions and Answers

In this world food quiz section, there are 10 questions in which we’ll give you a national dish, and you have to guess the country it originates from. We’ve also given you a hint in case you want to use these as pub quiz quiz questions and your quizzers are looking a little lost!

1. Curry Rice.
Japan

2. Hákarl (Fermented Shark).
Iceland

3. Pot-au-Feu. (Boiled beef and vegetables, usually served as two courses: the broth and then the solid ingredients)
France

4. Chicken Tikka Masala (Marinated chicken chunks in spiced curry sauce)
England (UK)

5. Pho. (A soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat.)
Vietnam

6. Salteña. (A baked empanada made with beef or chicken mixed with olives, potatoes, vegetables, hard-boiled egg, raisins, and spices in a sweet and slightly spicy sauce)
Bolivia

7. Nasi Goreng. (Fried rice dish, usually cooked with pieces of meat and vegetables)
Indonesia

8. Fufu (A starchy side dish). 
Ghana

9. Chicken Machboos (Spiced chicken and rice).
Bahrain

10. Ropa Vieja (Shredded beef and vegetables). 
Cuba

 

True or False Food Quiz Questions and Answers

1. True or False: Out of 1000s of spices in the world, Saffron is the most expensive spice.
True

2. True or False: Carls Jr – and American Fast Food Chain – started off as a hot dog stand.
True

3. True or False: Pepsi was the first soft drink drunk in space.
False (it was Coke, but only by 8 hours!)

4. True or False? Potatoes are 80% water.
True

5. True or False: Creme Fraiche was originally developed as a cure for baldness.
False

6. True or False: Queensland, Australia produces 75% of the world’s pineapples.
False (it’s Costa Rica)

7. True or False: Strawberries are not actually berries.
True

8. True or False: Apples belong to the rose family.
True

9. True or False: Oysters and Lobsters used to be the food of the working class.
True 

10. True or False: The most expensive pizza in the world costs $900.
False – it’s actually $12,000!!

 

Weird and Wacky Food Trivia Questions

1. What is a Chinese gooseberry most commonly known as?
Kiwi Fruit

2. Where was Hawaiian Pizza first created?
Canada

3. True or False: Ketchup was once used to cure diseases like the common cold and diarrhoea.
True

4. Which of the following foods can make you hallucinate?
A. Nutmeg.
B. Chillies.
C. Rye Bread.
D. All of the Above

5. What is the most stolen food in the world?
Cheese

6. A large number of which nut can spontaneously combust?
Pistachios 

7. True or False – the stickers on fruit are edible.
True

8. In the middle ages, what everyday spice was such a luxury it was used to pay rent and taxes?
Black Pepper

9. What type of sandwich is the only sandwich to have gone to space?
A Corned Beef Sandwich (in 1965)

10. Some fast food trivia for you: How many shapes do McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets come in?
4 – (And they have names! The bell, the ball, the bone and the boot)

 

Food and Drink Anagrams & Answers

1. Scrub Host Son (Hing: An Easter Treat)
Answer: Hot Cross Buns

2. Sugared ambulances (Hint: a cylindrical meat product)
Answer: Cumberland Sausage

3. No handy car (Hint: alcohol)
Answer: Chardonnay 

4. Pinch his fads (Hint: a British staple)
Answer: Fish and Chips

5. Fleeces so bare (Hint: a meat stew)
Answer: Beef Casserole

6. A legal title (Hint: Italian)
Answer: Tagliatelle

7. Seems not (Hint: dessert)
Answer: Eton Mess

8. Mean trowel (Hint: it’s refreshing)
Answer: Watermelon

9. Let a four backstage (Hint: a dessert)
Answer: Black Forest Gateau

10. Cocoa Cup Nip (Hint: Coffee)
Answer: Cappuccino

 

World Food Picture Quiz

The world foods picture quiz is a printable – just remember to chop the answers off the bottom if handing them out!

For those playing online, the answers are:
1. Ragu alla Bolognaise (Italy), 2. Sushi (Japan), 3. Macaroons (France), 4. Paella (Spain), 5. Hamburger (USA), 6. Weiner Schnitzel (Austria), 7. Falafel (Israel), 8. Fry Up (UK), 9. Baklava (Turkey)

 

 

We hope you loved our fun food trivia questions and there was a good mix of easy, difficult and multiple choice questions for your home or pub quiz – or simply to test your own food and drink knowledge.
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