
Food & Drink 120904 is a selection of 10 questions. Food & Drink 120904 is the filename to differentiate it from other Food & Drink quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Which sweet pudding dish do British schoolchildren traditionally nickname ‘frog spawn’?
A Tapioca
2 Which government department is responsible for food production and standards?
A Defra (The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
3 What spirit forms the base of the cocktail a Moscow Mule?
A Vodka
4 The luxury dish ‘Carpetbag steak’, consists of fillet steak stuffed with what?
A Oysters (or carpetbagger steak)
5 Which type of pastry is first stretched into paper-thin sheets, before layering them to make pastries with various fillings?
A Phyllo or Filo
6 Which foodstuffs did broadcaster Richard Dimbleby claim grew on trees in an episode of Panorama in 1957?
A Spaghetti (on April 1st 1957) (the programme convinced thousands of viewers it was true, showing ignorance among English people of the times about ‘foreign food’)
7 What type of food is Quark?
A Cheese (it’s like cottage cheese, apparently)
8 If you ordered Kulfi (or Qulfi) in an Indian restaurant, what would you be served with?
A Dairy ice-cream
9 What does the word ‘spumante’ mean on a bottle of wine?
A Sparkling
10 What flavour is the drink Mexican liqueur Kahlúa?
A Coffee (rum-based liqueur)