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202 free Fast Food trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 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 03Despite closing every Sunday, Chick-fil-A led US fast-food chains in 2022 by which measure?
Sales per restaurant
Sales per restaurant: about $6.7 million each in 2022, the most of any US fast-food chain, though founder Truett Cathy shut on Sundays so that staff could rest and worship.
Q 04The Big Mac was created in 1967 by franchisee Jim Delligatti near which Pennsylvania city?
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh: Delligatti owned about a dozen McDonald's in the area and, told to use only standard ingredients, went rogue and ordered bigger sesame-seed buns from a local baker.
Q 05Who played the original Ronald McDonald in 1963 TV ads after a stint as Bozo the Clown?
Willard Scott
Willard Scott, later the Today show's weatherman, had appeared at local McDonald's as Bozo; when the show went off the air, the franchisees asked him for a new clown.
Q 06Which burger did James McLamore launch in 1957 to match a rival's oversized sandwich?
The Whopper
The Whopper sold for 37 cents when the Burger King co-founder launched it; the rival stand was in Gainesville, Florida, and his chain went on to bill itself as the 'Home of the Whopper'.
Q 07How is KFC's Original Recipe chicken cooked?
Pressure-fried
Pressure-fried: in 1939 Colonel Sanders bought one of the first commercial pressure cookers and turned it into a fryer, which cooked chicken far faster than his iron frying pan.
Q 08In 2020, which country's Supreme Court ruled that Subway's bread was too sugary to count legally as bread?
Ireland
Ireland: a franchisee had argued that its sandwiches were a tax-free staple food, but the court found the bread held about five times the sugar the law allows in bread.
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
Lettuce: the 'secret' menu was never a marketing plan; regulars invented the orders and passed them on by word of mouth, and In-N-Out now lists them on its own website.
Q 10Why did Dave Thomas make Wendy's hamburger patties square?
To show beef past the bun
To show beef past the bun: Thomas wanted customers to see the quality of the meat at the corners, and he borrowed the shape from Kewpee, a Michigan burger chain.
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 in 1921, when The Jungle had left Americans wary of ground beef; the founders answered with spotless uniforms and gleaming steel interiors, and sold burgers for a nickel.
Q 12What businessman bought McDonald's from the McDonald brothers and turned it into a global empire?
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc paid the brothers $2.7 million in 1961, but the deal left out their original stand; they renamed it The Big M, Kroc opened a McDonald's nearby, and The Big M closed six years later.
Q 13After selling KFC, Colonel Sanders publicly compared the chain's new gravy to what?
Wallpaper paste
Q 21In 2001, Pizza Hut had a specially made six-inch pizza delivered where?
The space station
The space station: the vacuum-sealed pizza was sized to fit the station's oven, flew up on a Russian rocket and was eaten in orbit by cosmonaut Yuri Usachov.
Q 22How did 'Uncle Jerry' Jacobson rig McDonald's Monopoly game for more than a decade?
He stole the winning pieces
He stole the winning pieces: Jerome Jacobson was security chief at the firm that ran the game, and sold them to fake winners, some recruited by Gennaro Colombo of the Colombo crime family.
Q 23Taco Bell takes its name from what?
Its founder's surname
Wallpaper paste, he told a Louisville newspaper, adding that he knew the stuff because he had watched his mother make it; a franchisee sued him for libel and lost.
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 King slogan arrived in 1974 with a jingle that began 'Hold the pickles'?
Have it your way
'Have it your way', sung with 'special orders don't upset us', was a dig at McDonald's and its rigid assembly line; Burger King brought the motto back in the 2000s.
Q 16What is McDonald's famous limited-time pork sandwich called?
McRib
The McRib arrived in 1981 because McNuggets were too popular: chicken ran short, so chef René Arend gave franchisees a pork patty pressed into the shape of a rack of ribs.
Q 17How many herbs and spices are in KFC's secret Original Recipe?
11
The 11 herbs and spices are guarded so closely that two companies each blend only half the recipe, and a copy signed by Sanders is kept in a vault.
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 Colonel Sanders begin selling fried chicken from a Kentucky service station?
The Great Depression
The Great Depression: in 1930 Sanders took over a Shell station in Corbin rent-free and fed travellers in his own living quarters before he had a restaurant.
Q 20Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos, launched in 2012, were developed with which snack company?
Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay makes Doritos, and the nacho-cheese taco shell launched in March 2012; the Naked Chicken Chalupa later flipped the idea, with a shell made of fried chicken.
Its founder's surname: Glen Bell ran a hot dog stand in San Bernardino, learned hard-shell tacos from the Mexican cafe across the street, and opened the first Taco Bell in 1962.
Q 24Which practice, devised by Harry Sonneborn in the 1950s, became the financial engine of McDonald's?
Owning the land and buildings
Owning the land and buildings makes McDonald's its franchisees' landlord: Sonneborn's plan was to control each site and lease it to the operator, so rent flows in on top of royalties.
Q 25Which breakfast chain flipped a letter of its name in 2018 to push its burgers?
IHOP
IHOP briefly became 'IHOb', a stunt to shake its breakfast-only image; a year later it mocked itself by promising to call its burgers 'pancakes'.
Q 26Chick-fil-A's 'Eat Mor Chikin' billboards are supposedly painted by which self-interested animals?
Cows
Cows: since 1995 the chain's Holsteins have begged diners to spare beef, and they replaced its earlier mascot, a chicken named Doodles.
Q 27Which animated series set off a 2017 fan campaign to bring back McDonald's Szechuan Sauce?
Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty's Rick raved about the sauce, a 1998 tie-in with Disney's Mulan; fans campaigned, and McDonald's brought it back in a small run that October and a wider one in February 2018.
Q 28In which country did a 1974 KFC ad campaign make fried chicken a Christmas tradition?
Japan
Japan: 'Kentucky for Christmas' grew from the manager of the country's first KFC selling party barrels as a stand-in for a turkey dinner, in a country with few Christmas customs of its own.
Q 29A Taco Bell Cantina in Pacifica, California, beside Highway 1, has a reputation as the chain's most what?
Beautiful
It is widely called the world's most beautiful Taco Bell: the 1960s building, once an A&W, stands right on Pacifica State Beach, on the ocean side of the highway.
Q 30Which staff did the McDonald brothers drop from their drive-in in 1948?
The carhops
The carhops: the brothers cut the menu to nine items and had customers walk up to a window for a 15-cent hamburger, a system built on speed, low prices and volume.