Trivia Tuesday

May 19, 2020

FOOD!

Round 1:

Fast Food

What fast food restaurant is credited with introducing the first modern-day drive-thru window?

1. Burger King
2. Wendy's
3. Sonic
4. McDonalds

2. Which of the following fast food restaurants was founded first?

1. Whataburger
2. McDonalds
3. In-N-Out Burger
4. Burger King

3. What did McDonald's restaurants first introduce in 1968?

1. Happy Meal
2. Ronald McDonald
3. Egg McMuffin
4. Big Mac

4. What fast food restaurant introduced a popular advertising campaign in 1997 that featured a talking chihuahua?

1. Domino's Pizza
2. Pizza Hut
3. Taco Bell
4. Del Taco

5. What fast food restaurant boasts that you can "Have it your way"?

1. Burger King
2. McDonald's
3. Subway
4. Papa John's

6. What fast food restaurant aired ads featuring Jared Fogle, a man who lost 245 pounds eating only their products?

1. Wendy's
2. McDonald's
3. Subway
4. El Pollo Loco

7. What fast food restaurant was originally founded in the small town of Guasave on Mexico's Pacific Coast?

1. El Pollo Loco
2. Del Taco
3. Taco Cabana
4. Taco Bell

8. How many herbs and spices make up the secret blend used on Colonel Harland Sanders' most famous creation: his Original KFC Recipe?

1. 13
2. 11
3. 9
4. 7

9. What fast food restaurant was literally founded in a broom closet?

1. Subway
2. Papa John's
3. McDonald's 
4. Dairy Queen

10. What was the first fast food restaurant to offer a complete "lite" menu?

1. Subway
2. Taco Bell
3. Krispy Kreme
4. Arby's

Round 2:

World Cuisine

by Christine Bone

1. What is the name of the cold pureed vegetable soup popular in Spain and Portugal?

2. What is the name of the spongy flatbread served in an Ethiopian meal? (You don’t have to use the standard spelling, but it must sound like the right word)

3. Which of the following Indian dishes is typically spiciest?

1. Vindaloo
2. Chana Masala
3. Korma
4. Palak Paneer

4. What is the primary vegetable in the Middle Eastern dish Baba Ganoush?

5. Hákarl is a national dish of Iceland consisting of fermented, dried fish. What fish is used?

6. What fruit is often banned on Asian public transport because of its unpleasant smell?

7. Besides heat and flavour, eating Sichuan peppercorns produces what other sensation in the mouth?

8. In Central and North American Indigenous tradition, three vegetables (known as the Three Sisters) are planted together because each has properties which help the others to grow. What are the three vegetables?

9. The national dessert of Australia has a meringue base, topped with fruit and whipped cream. What is it called?

10. What grain is most often used in the Scottish dish Haggis?

Round 3:

Canadian Food, eh.

1. Name this sweet fried dough treat, named for an animal.

2. This topping is used to transform gravy fries into a popular Canadian dish Poutine.

3. Which ingredient is a must when making maple candy?

1. Spruce Gum
2. Snow
3. Flour
4. Peanut Butter

4. Name these no-bake bars.

5. What is the Canadian name for a Bloody Mary, made with clam juice instead of tomato juice?

6. What is this tiny treat called?

7. What will you get at Tim Horton's if you order

"a quad?"

8. Despite it's name, roundness, and tropical flavour, what dish did a Greek immigrant to Canada invent?  

9. In Quebec, if you order a tourtiere, si'l vous plait, this is what you'll get.

1. Caramelized Tart
2. Meat Pie
3. Shepard's Pie
4. Shrimp Cocktail

10. What do Canadian's call loaded potato chips?