Food and drink quiz questions.
Thirty food and drink questions from the free bank, easiest first, answers folded away so you can read them out. The bank has 197 in this category.
Which US city is famous for deep dish pizza?
Answer
Chicago
Chicago deep dish is baked in a tall pan with the cheese under the tomato sauce. Source
Napa Valley wine country is in which US state?
Answer
California
A Napa Chardonnay from Chateau Montelena beat top French wines at the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting. Source
Poutine is fries covered in gravy and what?
What are Tim Hortons' bite sized doughnut balls called?
An Irish coffee is hot coffee, sugar, cream and which spirit?
Answer
Irish whiskey
Irish coffee is credited to chef Joe Sheridan at Foynes, the flying boat terminal near Shannon, in the 1940s. Source
How many beef patties are in a Big Mac?
Answer
2
The Big Mac went national in the US in 1968 after being created by a Pittsburgh area franchisee. Source
A standard case of wine holds how many bottles?
Buffalo wings are named after a city in which US state?
Answer
New York
Buffalo wings are traditionally served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing. Source
Nanaimo bars are named after a city in which Canadian province?
Answer
British Columbia
A Nanaimo bar has a crumb base, a custard icing middle and a chocolate top, and needs no baking. Source
Canada's Caesar cocktail is made with vodka and which clam and tomato juice?
Answer
Clamato
The Caesar was first mixed in 1969 at the Calgary Inn, and Canadians drink hundreds of millions a year. Source
Which Canadian province produces most of the world's maple syrup?
Answer
Quebec
Quebec keeps a strategic reserve of maple syrup, from which thousands of barrels were stolen in 2011 and 2012. Source
Boxty is an Irish pancake made mainly from what?
Answer
Potato
An old rhyme goes: Boxty on the griddle, boxty in the pan, if you can't make boxty, you'll never get a man. Source
How many pints are in a gallon?
True or false: in 1991 a UK tax tribunal ruled that Jaffa Cakes are cakes, not biscuits.
Answer
True
The ruling mattered because chocolate covered biscuits attract VAT in the UK but cakes do not. Source
True or false: the macadamia nut is native to Australia.
Answer
True
Macadamias grow wild in the rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales, and Hawaii later became a big grower. Source
True or false: peanuts are legumes rather than true nuts.
True or false: tequila is made from a cactus.
True or false: pineapples grow on trees.
Answer
False
A pineapple grows from the centre of a low, leafy plant and takes up to two years to ripen. Source
True or false: basmati is a short grain rice.
In what year was the first Oktoberfest held?
True or false: botanically, a strawberry is a berry.
True or false: botanically, a banana is a berry.
Answer
True
A banana develops from a single flower with one ovary, which makes it a berry to botanists. Source
True or false: Champagne gets its bubbles from a second fermentation inside the bottle.
Answer
True
The traditional method adds yeast and sugar to the bottled wine, trapping carbon dioxide inside. Source
True or false: cashew nuts grow attached to a fruit called the cashew apple.
Answer
True
Each cashew nut hangs from the bottom of a cashew apple, a juicy fruit eaten in Brazil and India. Source
True or false: Gruyere cheese is named after a town in Switzerland.
True or false: white chocolate contains cocoa butter.
Answer
True
White chocolate is made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk, but has no cocoa solids. Source
Montreal style bagels are boiled in water sweetened with what?
Answer
Honey
Montreal bagels are then baked in wood fired ovens, making them smaller, sweeter and denser than New York bagels. Source
In what year did the US lift its ban on absinthe, first imposed in 1912?
Answer
2007
Absinthe was blamed for madness, but its supposed hallucinogenic effects were greatly exaggerated. Source
A Champagne jeroboam holds how many standard bottles?
Answer
4
In Champagne a jeroboam holds 3 litres, while in Bordeaux the name is used for a larger bottle. Source
A nebuchadnezzar of Champagne holds how many litres?
Answer
15
A nebuchadnezzar holds the same as 20 standard bottles and is named after a king of Babylon. Source
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