Chick-fil-A Trivia
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47 free Chick-fil-A trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
50 free Chick-fil-A trivia questions with answers. Chick-fil-A is the fast-food chain that sells more per restaurant than any other in America while staying shut one day a week. This quiz covers how it got there: Truett Cathy's tiny 1946 diner near an Atlanta car plant, the pressure fryer that made a chicken sandwich as fast as a burger, the 1967 mall food-court opening, and the cows that have been misspelling 'chicken' on billboards since 1995. Easy questions cover the day the doors stay closed, the pickles on the sandwich and the oil the chicken is cooked in. Harder ones dig into which breakfast chain once sold the sandwich under licence, where the signature sauce was really invented, the ad agency behind the cows, the Peach Bowl's origins and the company's short-lived restaurants in South Africa and England. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia or the company's own pages, and the citation sits under each question, so you can settle a drive-through argument on the spot. Good for road trips, office trivia and anyone who has ever answered 'thank you' with 'my pleasure'.
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Q 01Truett Cathy's first restaurant, the 1946 Dwarf Grill, took its name from what?
Its small size
Its small size: the diner Cathy opened with his brother in 1946 had only ten counter stools and a handful of tables, yet it stayed open around the clock.
Q 02In which Atlanta suburb did Truett Cathy open his first restaurant in 1946?
Hapeville
Hapeville, next to Atlanta's airport, was home to the 1946 Dwarf Grill, which drew much of its early trade from workers at the Ford assembly plant nearby.
Q 03Before Chick-fil-A had any restaurants, its sandwich was sold at which stadium in Texas when it opened in 1965?
Astrodome
The Astrodome. For three years the sandwich was licensed to other outlets, the new domed stadium's stands among them, until the first Chick-fil-A opened in an Atlanta mall in 1967.
Q 04Chick-fil-A's first restaurant opened in 1967 in the food court of which Atlanta mall?
Greenbriar
Greenbriar Mall, one of Atlanta's first enclosed malls, gave Chick-fil-A its start as a pioneer of food-court dining; the restaurant served for 56 years before closing in May 2023.
Q 05What is the capital 'A' at the end of Chick-fil-A's name meant to signify?
Grade A top-quality chicken
The capital A stands for Grade A top-quality chicken; the 'fil' part plays on how Americans say 'filet', so the whole name is a boast about a top-grade chicken fillet.
Q 06What did Truett Cathy find in 1961 that cooked a chicken fillet as fast as a hamburger?
A pressure fryer
A pressure fryer. Cathy had run his diner for 15 years when he found one that cooked a boneless chicken breast as quickly as a burger, and it was six more before the first Chick-fil-A opened.
Q 07From 1964 to 1967 the Chick-fil-A sandwich was licensed to over fifty other eateries, including which breakfast chain?
Waffle House
Waffle House, another Georgia-born chain, sold the sandwich under licence in the 1960s; by one account it outsold the chain's own dishes before the arrangement ended.
Q 08Chick-fil-A's first restaurant, opened in 1967, was about the size of what?
A two-car garage
A two-car garage. The mall counter covered just 384 square feet, and the chain stayed almost entirely inside shopping malls for 19 years, opening its first stand-alone restaurant only in 1986.
Q 09On which day of the week is every Chick-fil-A restaurant closed?
Sunday
Every Chick-fil-A closes on Sunday, a rule Truett Cathy set at his first diner in 1946 after years of working seven days a week in 24-hour restaurants.
Q 10In 2007 Chick-fil-A's cows were inducted into a Walk of Fame on which New York street?
Madison Avenue
Madison Avenue. Its Advertising Walk of Fame honoured a herd dreamed up in 1995 by The Richards Group, an agency based far from New York, in Dallas.
Q 11On what did Chick-fil-A's 'Eat Mor Chikin' cows first appear in 1995?
Billboard
Billboard. A pair of cows was shown painting the misspelled plea on an Atlanta sign; their first radio commercial followed a year later.
Q 12What breed of dairy cow stars in Chick-fil-A's advertising?
Holstein
Holstein. The black-and-white dairy cows run their whole campaign as an act of self-preservation: eat chicken, they plead, instead of us.
Q 13Doodles, Chick-fil-A's original chicken mascot, survives today as which part of the company's logo?
The letter C
The letter C. Doodles fronted the chain until the cows took over its advertising in 1995, and he still stands in for the first letter of its name.
Q 21As of 2018, what was the most-ordered item on Chick-fil-A's menu?
Waffle fries
Waffle fries topped the chain's 2018 ranking of its most-ordered items; soft drinks came second, and the Original Chicken Sandwich that made its name managed only fourth.
Q 22Chick-fil-A added which item in 1982, the year before McDonald's took its own version nationwide?
Chicken nuggets
Chicken nuggets. Customers kept asking restaurant operators to cut the sandwich fillet into bite-sized pieces, so in 1982 the chain began selling them in boxes of six.
Q 23Which Chick-fil-A dipping sauce was one of the original three introduced in 1984?
Polynesian
Q 14Why did Chick-fil-A once temporarily halt its 'Eat Mor Chikin' ads?
A mad cow disease scare
A mad cow disease scare. The company did not want to seem to be cashing in on a food-safety panic, so it shelved the campaign for a time before bringing its cows back.
Q 15Which long-running piece of cow merchandise did Chick-fil-A retire at the end of 2018?
Calendar
Calendar. Each edition came with monthly offers of free food, and the chain dropped it to steer regulars to the rewards in its mobile app instead.
Q 16Chick-fil-A's Original Chicken Sandwich is cooked in 100 percent refined what?
Peanut oil
Peanut oil. The company says its oil is so heavily refined that the proteins are stripped out, and it notes that the FDA does not count highly refined oils as major food allergens.
Q 17What garnish comes as standard on Chick-fil-A's Original Chicken Sandwich?
Two dill pickle slices
Two dill pickle slices. Truett Cathy had diners at his restaurant taste-test versions until he settled on the recipe in 1964; lettuce, tomato and cheese come only on the Deluxe.
Q 18For more than 30 years, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy and his wife Jeannette opened their home to whom?
Foster children
Foster children. The Cathys took them in for more than three decades, and his WinShape Foundation went on to open a string of foster homes of its own.
Q 19Chick-fil-A's waffle-cut potato fries are cooked in which oil?
Canola
Chick-fil-A's waffle-cut fries are cooked in canola oil, not the oil used for the chicken, and are finished with a sprinkle of sea salt.
Q 20Which item have some Chick-fil-A restaurants sold during Lent?
Fish sandwich
Fish sandwich. Because many Christians give up meat during Lent, the chicken chain promoted a seasonal fish entrée in some years, though it has since stopped offering one.
Polynesian, a sweet-and-sour sauce, was one of the chain's first three dips in 1984, and forty years later it was still the second most-ordered of them all.
Q 24In 2014 Chick-fil-A pledged that within five years its chicken would be raised without what?
Antibiotics
Antibiotics. The chain met the pledge in 2019, then relaxed it in 2024 to rule out only antibiotics important to human medicine, saying it needed to keep its chicken supply steady.
Q 25Chick-fil-A's namesake sauce was born when a worker accidentally mixed which sauce into a restaurant's homemade honey mustard?
Barbecue sauce
Barbecue sauce. Virginia restaurant operator Hugh Fleming had whipped up the honey mustard for his customers in the early 1980s, and he added the barbecue once the accident proved a hit.
Q 26Which dip did customers order more than any other in 2024?
Chick-fil-A Sauce
Chick-fil-A Sauce topped the chain's 2024 ranking of its dipping sauces, with Sweet & Spicy Sriracha finishing last of the seven.
Q 27In 2023 Chick-fil-A began testing its first meat-free sandwich, built around which vegetable?
Cauliflower
Cauliflower. A filet cut from a whole head was marinated, breaded and cooked like the chicken, after guests told the chain they wanted more vegetables; tests began in Denver, Charleston and Greensboro.
Q 28Which bowl game has carried Chick-fil-A's name as title sponsor since the 1990s?
Peach Bowl
Peach Bowl. From 2006 to 2013 the fruit vanished and the game was simply the Chick-fil-A Bowl; the peach returned in 2014, the year the game joined the College Football Playoff.
Q 29Chick-fil-A restaurants in which US territory serve coffee grown and roasted entirely on the island?
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico. The chain arrived there in 2022, and its island restaurants train staff as baristas to hand-brew lattes and cortados sold at no other Chick-fil-A.
Q 30What had Truett Cathy just finished doing when he opened his first diner near Atlanta in 1946?
Serving in the US Army
Serving in the US Army. Back from his Second World War service, he and his brother turned a house into a diner that stayed open 24 hours a day.