200 Best Food & Drink Trivia Questions with Answers (In 2024)
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Fun Fact: Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth and choking.
Food Trivia Picture Quizzes
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Easy Food Trivia For Kids
Fun Fact: Potatoes were the first vegetable to be grown in space.
25. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
26. What is the main ingredient in guacamole?
27. Which vegetable is commonly used to make pickles?
28. What type of bread is known for the hole in the middle and is often spread with cream cheese?
29. Which fruit is known for being yellow, curved, and a good source of potassium?
30. Which food is commonly used as the base for salsa?
31. What are the three main ingredients in a classic BLT sandwich?
32. What are dried grapes commonly called?
33. What is the name of the Mexican dish made with ground meat and tortillas and topped with cheese, lettuce, and other toppings?
34. Pork is the meat of which animal?
35. What is the sweet, sticky substance that bees make?
36. Granny Smith is a variety of which fruit?
37. Gouda, cheddar, and feta are types of which dairy product?
38. Which vitamin does an orange have a lot of?
39. What nutrient comes from egg, meat, and fish?
40. True or False: Tomatoes are a fruit.
41. Pizza and pasta are considered what kind of cuisine?
42. Which fruit is hard on the outside and contains milk on the inside?
43. Which fruit inspired Sir Isaac Newton to discover the law of gravity?
44. How many eggs are there in a dozen?
45. What are food allergies most commonly caused by?
46. What fruit is 92% made up of water?
47. Beef is the meat of what animal?
48. This ingredient makes bread rise. What is it?
49. Bread, rice, and crackers are considered what type of nutrient?
50. French fries, hashbrowns, and tater tots are made from what root vegetable?
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Fast Food Trivia
Fun Fact: McDonald’s sells 6.5 million hamburgers a day (source).
51. What is the name of America’s first fast food chain that first featured hamburgers for five cents apiece? (source)
Answer: White Castle
52. What year did this first fast-food restaurant open in Kansas?
Answer: 1921
53. What fast food chain introduced the drive-thru window?
Answer: Wendy’s
54. Which fast food chain restaurant sells a Happy Meal?
Answer: McDonald’s
55. Which U.S. fast food chain is known for its fried chicken?
Answer: KFC
56. Which fast food restaurant is known for its slogan “Eat Mor Chikin”?
Answer: Chick-fil-A
57. The Crunchwrap Supreme is a popular item on what fast food chain’s menu?
Answer: Taco Bell
58. If you are craving a Whopper, where will you go?
Answer: Burger King
59. What chain is known for its variety of drink offerings and carhops on roller skates?
Answer: Sonic
60. McDonald’s best-selling items are their french fries and what burger?
Answer: The Big Mac
61. What pizza chain started in Wichita, Kansas in 1958 (source)?
Answer: Pizza Hut
Name the fast food chain using the slogan.
62. “Have it your way.”
Answer: Burger King
63. “I’m lovin’ it.”
Answer: McDonalds
64. “Where’s the Beef?”
Answer: Wendy’s
65. “Hot Eats, Cool Treats.”
Answer: Dairy Queen
66. “Gather ‘Round the Good Stuff.”
Answer: Pizza Hut
67. “M’m, m’m, m’m, m’m,…toasty.”
Answer: Quiznos
68. “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.”
Answer: Papa John’s
69. “Now That Your Tastes Have Grown Up!”
Answer: Arby’s
70. “Where the food’s as good as the root beer.”
Answer: A & W
71. “American runs on __________.”
Answer: Dunkin’ Donuts
72. “Eat Fresh.”
Answer: Subway
73. “We speak fish.”
Answer: Long John Silver’s
74. “Think outside the bun.”
Answer: Taco Bell
75.“Finger-lickin’ good.”
Answer: KFC
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American Food & Drink Trivia
Fun Fact: There are more than 4,000 different uses for corn. It is found in anything from pet food to fireworks.
76. What is the most popular type of cheese to put on a Philadelphia cheesesteak?
Answer: Cheez Whiz
77. What popular soft drink was invented in the U.S. in 1886 and first sold in Georgia?
Answer: Coca-Cola
78. What is the most commonly ordered seafood item in American restaurants?
Answer: Shrimp
79. A Chicago-style hot dog is made of what type of meat?
Answer: Beef
80. How many flavors of ice cream is a classic banana split topped with?
Answer: 3
81. What dessert is a layer of cake, ice cream, and a toasted meringue? (Hint: It’s named after a state)
Baked Alaska
82. What kind of bread is sliced thick, buttered, and served alongside barbecue?
Answer: Texas toast
83. What one-pot dish is made with rice, sausage, chicken, and vegetables and originated from Louisiana?
Answer: Jambalaya
84. What type of sandwich contains corned beef, cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing?
Answer: Reuben
85. What soup is traditionally used to make American green bean casserole?
Answer: Cream of Mushroom
86. A Johnnycake is an early American settlers’ flatbread made from what?
Answer: Corn
87. What’s the drink named after a city? It’s made with rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, bitters, and a maraschino cherry.
Answer: Manhattan
88. What type of food is a bear claw?
Answer: Donut
89. How is the chicken prepared in the southern dish Chicken and Waffles?
Answer: Fried
90. The Elvis Sandwich contains bacon, peanut butter, and ____________.
Answer: Banana
91. What is a chicken fried steak usually covered in?
Answer: Gravy
92. What is the oldest soft drink in America?
Answer: Dr. Pepper
93. What is the one U.S. state that grows coffee beans?
Answer: Hawaii
94. James L. Kraft manufactured what product in the 1950s?
Answer: American cheese
95. Although considered a popular Hawaiian treat, what packaged meat originated in Minnesota?
Answer: SPAM
96. What is the most common type of pizza topping in the U.S.?
Answer: Pepperoni
97. What popular New England soup is made with clams, potatoes, onions, and bacon?
Answer: Clam Chowder
98. What is a PB&J?
Answer: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
99. Fried chicken is coated in what before being deep-fried?
Flour
100. What deep-fried chicken dish with hot sauce and blue cheese dressing was allegedly created at The Anchor Bar in a Northeastern state?
Answer: Buffalo Wings
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Candy Trivia
101. What candy is individually wrapped and contains a joke on each wrapper?
Answer: Laffy Taffy
102. What movie, released in 1971 led to the success of Gobstoppers?
Answer: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
103. What candy is known for its sourness? It comes in the shape of small, sugar-coated fruit inspired by the Cabbage Patch Dolls.
Answer: Sour Patch Kids
104. “Nobody better lay a finger on my __________.”
Answer: Butterfinger
105. Haribo is the original manufacturer of what candy?
Answer: Gummy Bears
106. What was the top-selling Halloween candy in America in 2022?
Answer: C- Reese’s Cups (source)
107. Cinemark reports that this candy is the biggest movie candy seller. What is it?
Answer: Peanut M&M’s (source)
108. Before sugar was introduced to the West, what was used to sweeten candy?
Answer: Honey
109. In the early 20th century, what candy company introduced the “Great American Chocolate Bar”?
Answer: Hershey’s
110. What color M&M did not exist from 1976 to 1987 due to fear of a particular food dye?
Answer: Red
111. What candy bar shares its name with a galaxy?
Answer: Milky Way
112. What is the main ingredient in chocolate that comes from the cacao bean?
Answer: Cocoa
113. Where was milk chocolate invented?
A) United States
B) Germany
C) Switzerland
D) Italy
Answer: C-Switzerland
114. What do the two M’s in M&M’s stand for?
A) Maker and Man
B) Milky and Marvelous
C) Milton and Men
D) Mars and Murrie
Answer: D- Mars and Murie- The last names of the businessmen who financed and developed the candy.
115. What beloved candy bar is named after a horse?
Answer: Snickers
116. Name the candy. “Taste the rainbow.”
Answer: Skittles
117. “Gimme a break, gimme a break, break me off a piece of that ____________”
Answer: Kit Kat Bar
118. “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a _________ _________”
Answer: Tootsie Pop
119. What popular 70s candy features small, fruit-flavored pellets that come in a toy dispenser?
Answer: Pez
120. What 90s candy comes in fruity flavors and contains an explosion when you bite into it?
Answer: Gushers (Related: 90s Trivia Game)
121. What candy is often associated with Valentine’s Day with their heart shape and messages?
Answer: Conversation hearts
122. What popular red and white candy is associated with Christmas?
Answer: Candy canes
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123. What famous hard candy’s original flavors were watermelon, apple, and fire stix?
Answer: Jolly Ranchers
124. What is the #1 cinnamon-flavored candy brand in the United States?
Answer: Hot Tamales
125. During World War II, this candy was included in U.S. soldiers’ rations. What was it?
Answer: Tootsie Rolls
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Dessert Trivia
Fun Fact: The word dessert comes from the French verb desservir, meaning “to clear the table.”
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Answer: B-Germany
127. What dessert is made with key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust?
Answer: Key Lime Pie
128. What popular campfire treat consists of roasted marshmallows, a chocolate bar, and graham crackers?
Answer: S’more
129. What dessert is made from layers of jelly, sponge, fruit, custard, and cream?
Answer: Trifle
130. What is the main flavor of a traditional tiramisu cake?
Answer: Coffee
131. What kind of icing traditionally goes on carrot cake?
Answer: Cream Cheese
132. What does “a la mode” mean when referring to desserts?
Answer: Served with a scoop of ice cream
133. What is the best-selling ice cream flavor in the U.S.?
Answer: Vanilla
134. What is the base flavor for traditional marzipan?
Answer: Almond
135. What fruit dessert is traditionally flambéed before serving?
Answer: Bananas Foster
136. What is the key ingredient in a soufflé to make it rise?
Answer: Egg whites
137. What is the typical shape of a traditional Bundt cake?
Answer: A ring
138. What is the name of the dessert consisting of a rich custard base? It’s topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
Answer: Crème Brûlée
139. What ingredient separates New York-style cheesecake from other varieties?
Answer: Sour cream
140. Which dessert originated from Sicily and is filled with sweetened ricotta cheese?
Answer: Cannoli
141. What is the signature dessert of New Orleans, Louisiana?
Answer: Beignets
142. What are cookies called in the UK?
Answer: Biscuits
143. What country invented the crepe?
Answer: France
144. What is the bright-colored dessert made from gelatin and fruit juice?
Answer: Jello
145. What is the difference between sherbet and sorbet?
Answer: Sorbet is made without dairy.
146. Which country is Stollen cake from?
Answer: Germany
147. What type of small, rich chocolate cake is intended to have a gooey center?
Answer: Molten chocolate cake
148. What is fondant typically used for?
Answer: Decorating cakes
149. What type of pastry is used to make a turnover?
Answer: Puff pastry
150. What type of pie is traditionally associated with Thanksgiving and is made from a gourd-like fruit?
Answer: Pumpkin pie
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Christmas Food & Drink Trivia
151. What holiday beverage is made from milk, sugar, and eggs?
Answer: Eggnog
152. In what country did the tradition of gingerbread houses originate?
Answer: Germany
153. In which country is it common to eat the Feast of the Seven Fishes during Christmas?
Answer: Italy
154. What main dish is the most popular traditional Christmas choice to eat in America? (source)
Answer: Turkey
155. In the song “Let It Snow”, what did Dean Martin bring for popping?
Answer: Corn
156. What was “roasting on an open fire” in “The Christmas Song”?
Answer: Chestnuts
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157. What is the French Christmas dish Bûche de Noël known as in English?
Answer: Yule Log
158. What food is rich in vitamin C and can double as a sauce?
Answer: Cranberries
159. ‘Gluhwein’ is what kind of drink?
Answer: Mulled wine
160. What are the stripes on a candy cane believed to represent?
Answer: The white signifies purity and the red represents Christ’s blood. (source)
161. What did it mean if a coin was found in someone’s Christmas pudding?
Answer: Good luck all year. (Related: Chinese New Year Trivia)
162. What fruit is traditionally placed inside Christmas stockings?
Answer: Orange
163. True or False: A sugar plum is a real fruit.
False- It is a piece of hard candy
164. In America, what treats are traditionally left out for Santa Claus?
Answer: Milk and cookies
165. What is another name for Christmas pudding?
Answer: Figgy or plum pudding
166. Collard greens are often served around the holidays to symbolize what?
Answer: Prosperity
167. What country did cinnamon sticks originate from?
Answer: Sri Lanka
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Around The World Food Trivia
Do you love international cuisine? Take this food trivia quiz that includes multiple-choice questions.
Fun Fact: Pineapples were named because early discoverers thought they looked like pine cones.
176. What popular food was created in Belgium, not France as its name implies?
Answer: French fries
177. What spice, frequently used in Hungarian food, provides vitamin C, helps give hair its color, and can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease?
Answer: Paprika
178. What bean originated in East Asia and is used for miso, oil, and tofu?
Answer: Soybean
179. What is the grain-like food grown principally in the Andes Mountains that is high in protein and is a great source of B vitamins and fiber?
Answer: Quinoa
180. What is the main ingredient in the Middle Eastern dish falafel?
Answer: Chickpeas
181. What fruit that originates in Southeast Asia is known as the “king of fruits” and has a strong smell?
Answer: Durian
182. What frozen treat is made with less fat and air than ice cream?
Answer: Gelato
183. What tropical fruit is low in calories and high in antioxidants? It is native to southern Mexico and Central America and is known for its bright red skin and green scales.
Answer: Dragon fruit
184. Which country is the biggest exporter of coffee beans worldwide?
Answer: Brazil
185. Found on many types of sushi, nori is the Japanese name for the edible species in the red algae genus Pyropia. Frequently used in the format of dried sheets, what is the English term for this edible ingredient?
Answer: Seaweed
186. What staple of Korean cuisine is made from salted and fermented vegetables?
Answer: Kimchi
187. Spanish cuisine features a dish named for a wide, shallow traditional pan used to cook the dish on an open fire. What is this dish?
Answer: Paella
Multiple Choice International Food Trivia Questions
188. If you were eating a mole poblano, what country would you be in?
A) Mexico
B) South Africa
C) Peru
D) Italy
Answer: A- Mexico
189. Which country is the mung bean native to?
A) England
B) India
C) Italy
D) China
Answer: B) India
190. Jarlsberg is a nutty, sweet cheese originating from which country?
A) France
B) Norway
C) Belgium
D) Austria
Answer: B-Norway
191. Which country does Gorgonzola traditionally hail from?
A) Albania
B) Italy
C) Spain
D) Romania
Answer: B-Italy
192. Panettone is sweet Italian bread shaped like a rounded pyramid and traditionally served when?
A) The first day of Spring
B) Easter
C) The first day of winter
D) Christmas
Answer: D-Christmas
193. Antipasto is an Italian term referring to what?
A) Desserts
B) Main dishes
C) Vegetables
D) Appetizers
Answer: D-Appetizers
194. Ghee, clarified butter made from cow or buffalo’s milk, is extensively used where?
A) Angola
B) Brazil
C) India
D) Chile
Answer: C-India
195. A Japanese savory dish comprising seaweed filled with rice and raw fish is called what?
A) Sushi
B) Surd
C) Suzerain
D) Swanndri
Answer: A-Sushi
196. A consommé is a clear, thin soup made from what?
A) Fruit juice
B) Coconut milk
C) Oil
D) Clarified stock
Answer: D-Clarified stock
197. Hojicha, Gyokuro, and Matcha are popular types of what Japanese drink?
A) Tea
B) Coffee
C) Milkshake
D) Soda
Answer: A-Tea
198. Sauerkraut, a German dish, is mainly shredded what?
A) Beef
B) Lettuce
C) Cabbage
D) Carrots
Answer: C- Cabbage
199. The Italian term ‘al dente’ is used to describe cooked pasta. How is the pasta supposed to be when al dente?
A) Salty
B) Soft
C) Garlicky
D) Firm
Answer: D-Firm
200. What are ‘au gratin’ dishes usually served with?
A) Cheese
B) Horseradish
C) Carrot
D) Cabbage
Answer: A-Cheese
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