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163 free Fast Food trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
65 free fast food trivia questions with answers. Think you know your Big Macs from your Whoppers? This fast food trivia quiz covers the major chains, founders like Ray Kroc and Colonel Sanders, iconic menu items, viral moments and the business secrets behind the world's biggest restaurant brands, and now includes a dedicated fast food slogans trivia round: 'Where's the beef?', 'Pizza! Pizza!', 'finger lickin' good', 'Eat Fresh', 'We Have The Meats', 'Service with the Speed of Sound' and the jingle Burger King brought back for the 2023 playoffs. Sixty-five questions run from easy ones anyone who has been through a drive-through can answer to hard ones for people who remember every 1980s commercial. Play it solo, or use the slogans round for a quiz night. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows where it came from.
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Q 01The first restaurant built with Stanley Meston's golden-arches design opened in May 1953 in which city?
Phoenix
The first Meston-designed building, with two yellow parabolic arches flanking the stand, opened in Phoenix, Arizona, in May 1953 under franchisee Neil Fox; the arches became the chain's logo in 1962.
Q 02McDonald's adopted 'I'm Lovin' It' as its slogan in which year?
2003
McDonald's launched 'I'm Lovin' It' in September 2003, debuting in Germany with a Justin Timberlake jingle, replacing earlier lines such as 'You deserve a break today'.
Q 03What day of the week is Chick-fil-A famously closed?
Sunday
Chick-fil-A has been closed on Sundays since its founding by S. Truett Cathy in 1967. Cathy, a devout Southern Baptist, wanted to give employees a day of rest and worship, a policy that continues today across all locations.
Q 04The Big Mac was created in 1967 by franchisee Jim Delligatti, who ran restaurants in which metro area?
Pittsburgh
Jim Delligatti, who ran McDonald's franchises around Pittsburgh, introduced the Big Mac at his Uniontown, Pennsylvania restaurant in 1967; it went nationwide in 1968.
Q 05Which future TV weatherman played the original Ronald McDonald in 1963 local ads?
Willard Scott
Scott had just finished a run as Bozo the Clown on a Washington station. The character was gradually retired from marketing in the 2010s.
Q 06When co-founder James McLamore introduced the Whopper in 1957, what did it cost?
37 cents
The Whopper sold for 37 cents when James McLamore introduced it in 1957, built big after he saw an oversized burger drawing crowds at a rival stand in Gainesville, Florida.
Q 07How is KFC's Original Recipe chicken cooked?
Pressure-fried
KFC's Original Recipe is pressure-fried: in 1939 Harland Sanders adapted a pressure cooker into a fryer so his Corbin, Kentucky restaurant could cook chicken in minutes rather than half an hour.
Q 08As of 2019, which country outside North America had the most Subway locations?
United Kingdom
In 2019 the United Kingdom had about 2,200 Subway shops, ahead of Brazil and Australia; the chain owns no stores itself, with every outlet run by a franchisee.
Q 09On In-N-Out's not-so-secret menu, a burger ordered 'Protein Style' drops the bun in favor of a wrap of what?
Lettuce
The 'secret' is public: Protein Style swaps the bun for lettuce, and In-N-Out lists it on its own website alongside the 3x3, the 4x4 and Neapolitan shakes.
Q 10Wendy's square hamburgers were modeled on those of which chain from Dave Thomas's home town of Kalamazoo?
Kewpee
Dave Thomas borrowed the square patty from Kewpee, the Kalamazoo, Michigan chain he ate at as a boy; the corners poke past the round bun to suggest plenty of meat.
Q 11Which fast food chain is credited as the first hamburger chain in the United States, opening in 1921?
White Castle
White Castle, opened in Wichita, Kansas in 1921 by cook Walter Anderson and insurance man Billy Ingram, sold five-cent sliders and is counted as America's first hamburger chain.
Q 12What businessman bought McDonald's from the McDonald brothers and turned it into a global empire?
Ray Kroc
Kroc became the brothers' franchise agent in 1955 and opened his own restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois that year. Buying them out in 1961 cost him $2.7 million.
Q 13Wendy's Triple Baconator stacks three quarter-pound patties with how many strips of bacon?
9
Nine strips, four slices of cheese, ketchup, and mayo add up to about 1,360 calories. A breakfast Baconator joined the menu in 2020.
Q 21Subway's full-size 'footlong' sub is nominally how long?
12 in
A footlong is nominally 12 inches. In 2013 customers photographing 11-inch subs beside tape measures sued Subway, five years after the $5 footlong promotion of 2008 became a fast-food hit.
Q 22Roughly how many restaurants did Subway have worldwide in 2023?
37,000
Subway reported roughly 37,000 restaurants worldwide in 2023, all franchised; it had passed McDonald's by store count at the end of 2010 with 33,749 outlets, a lead McDonald's later regained.
Q 23The McDonald's Monopoly fraudster sold winning pieces through a member of which crime family?
Colombo
Jerome Jacobson met Gennaro Colombo by chance at the Atlanta airport; Colombo recruited fake winners for half the prize money and even appeared in a 1995 McDonald's commercial with a 'won' Dodge Viper.
Q 14What documentary film about eating only McDonald's for 30 days was released in 2004?
Super Size Me
Super Size Me premiered at Sundance in January 2004; Morgan Spurlock ate only McDonald's for 30 days in early 2003 and later admitted he drank heavily during filming, muddying his health results.
Q 15Which burger chain's 1970s advertising gave us 'Have it your way' and 'It takes two hands to handle a Whopper'?
Burger King
Burger King's 1970s campaigns produced 'Have it your way' in 1974 and 'It takes two hands to handle a Whopper', along with the 'Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce' jingle.
Q 16What is McDonald's famous limited-time pork sandwich called?
McRib
The McRib, introduced in 1981, is a restructured patty of ground pork shoulder pressed into the shape of a tiny rib rack, served on a 5.5-inch roll with onions and pickles.
Q 17How many herbs and spices are in KFC's secret Original Recipe?
11
The blend dates to Sanders' Corbin, Kentucky roadside restaurant in the 1930s and remains one of the most famous trade secrets in the food business.
Q 18Who voiced Taco Bell's talking Chihuahua of the late 1990s, famous for '¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!'?
Carlos Alazraqui
Carlos Alazraqui, the voice of Rocko in Rocko's Modern Life, supplied the Chihuahua's lines in the 1997–2000 campaign; the dog on screen was a female named Gidget.
Q 19During which period did Harland Sanders begin selling fried chicken in Corbin, Kentucky?
The Great Depression
Sanders started serving fried chicken from his Corbin, Kentucky service station in 1930, early in the Great Depression; he did not sell his first franchise until 1952, more than twenty years later.
Q 20Which Taco Bell item, created with Frito-Lay in 2012, has a shell flavored like a nacho-cheese corn chip?
Doritos Locos Tacos
Cool Ranch and Fiery versions followed and were later discontinued. The 2017 Naked Chicken Chalupa flipped the idea, using a shell made of fried chicken.
Q 24Before founding his Mexican-inspired chain in 1962, Glen Bell got his start in 1948 selling what?
Hot dogs
Bell's Drive-In in San Bernardino sat across from a Mexican restaurant whose hard-shell tacos he studied and copied, first at Taco-Tia and then at the Downey, California restaurant that became Taco Bell.
Q 25Beyond selling food, what does McDonald's rely on as its main revenue engine, collecting a share of each franchisee's sales in return?
Owning the land and buildings
McDonald's is a landlord: by owning the land and buildings it collects rent as a share of sales. At the end of 2025 it owned about 56 percent of the land and 80 percent of the buildings in its consolidated markets.
Q 26Which chain briefly rebranded as "IHOB" (International House of Burgers) in 2018?
IHOP
The 'flip' was a stunt to sell burgers to a chain seen as breakfast-only. A year later IHOP parodied itself, promoting a burger with a pancake inside and vowing to call its burgers 'pancakes'.
Q 27What is the Chick-fil-A cow mascot campaign's famous misspelled slogan?
"Eat Mor Chikin"
The cows are saving their own skins: "Eat Mor Chikin" has been the chain's most prominent slogan since The Richards Group created the campaign in 1995.
Q 28Roughly what share of McDonald's restaurants are run by independent operators, not the company?
About 95%
About 95 percent of McDonald's restaurants are franchised; the corporation directly employs around 150,000 people, while more than two million work for the independent operators who run the rest.
Q 29Which country's McDonald's serves a "Teriyaki McBurger" as a regular menu item?
Japan
Den Fujita opened the first Asian McDonald's in Tokyo in July 1971 and built the business on local items like the Teriyaki McBurger and Chicken Tatsuta. Singapore and Japan also sell a prawn Ebi Burger.
Q 30A Taco Bell Cantina in Pacifica, California, beside Highway 1, has a reputation as the chain's most what?
Beautiful
It is routinely called 'the most beautiful Taco Bell in the world': the Cantina sits on the sand at Pacifica State Beach with a walk-up window for surfers and a fireplace facing the Pacific.