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50 free Food Wars! trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma turned cooking into a battle manga. Soma Yukihira, a teenager raised behind the counter of his family's restaurant, enrols at the ruthless Totsuki Culinary Academy, where students settle everything from club rooms to expulsion through cook-offs called shokugeki, and where only a handful of each class ever graduate. This Food Wars knowledge quiz follows the story from Soma's entrance exam to the final arc. Expect questions on the characters and their specialties, from Erina Nakiri and the Elite Ten to the residents of Soma's dorm, plus the training camp, the Autumn Election, the rebellion against the academy's new regime, and the dishes that decided the biggest duels. A few questions cover the manga's creators and the anime's production and release. It is pitched for fans of the anime or the manga: the opening questions are ones most viewers will know, and the later ones reward readers who remember who cooked what. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01In Food Wars!, which shy classmate is one bad grade from expulsion when she is paired with Soma?
Megumi Tadokoro
Megumi Tadokoro starts with the worst grades in her year, yet she goes on to earn a seat on the Elite Ten. Stage fright, not a lack of skill, is what holds her cooking back.
Q 02Which Totsuki dormitory in Food Wars! makes Soma cook for its matron before he can move in?
Polar Star
Polar Star houses Totsuki's less affluent students, and its matron admits only those whose cooking satisfies her. Soma earns his room with a burger made from leftover mackerel.
Q 03What nickname in Food Wars! is given to Erina Nakiri for her supremely selective sense of taste?
God Tongue
God Tongue is a name so feared that most applicants flee when Erina is announced as their examiner. Her own family comes to see the gift as a curse that can ruin the joy of eating.
Q 04At the start of Food Wars!, what does Soma's father Joichiro do that sends Soma off to Totsuki?
Closes the family diner
Joichiro closes the family diner to cook around the world and sends Soma to sit Totsuki's entrance exam. Soma later learns his father once sat on the academy's Elite Ten himself.
Q 05In Food Wars!, what does Totsuki dean Senzaemon Nakiri tend to do when a dish truly impresses him?
Bares his chest
Senzaemon bares his chest, stripping off his upper clothing, whenever he eats a truly good dish. The culinary world knows Erina's grandfather as the Gastric Godfather.
Q 06Which manga magazine serialized Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma from November 2012 to June 2019?
Weekly Shonen Jump
Weekly Shonen Jump ran the series for nearly seven years, and publisher Shueisha collected its chapters in 36 volumes.
Q 07Which Food Wars! transfer student from Florence declares himself Soma's rival at the training camp?
Takumi
Takumi is heir to his family's trattoria and sees in Soma another chef raised in a working kitchen. His younger twin Isami transferred to the academy with him.
Q 08What ingredient does examiner Erina Nakiri demand in Soma's Totsuki transfer exam in Food Wars!?
Eggs
Eggs are the theme Erina sets on a whim, and Soma answers with a plain-looking rice dish whose seasoning hides chicken aspic. She fails him anyway, until the school's director overrules her.
Q 09Each later season of the Food Wars! anime carries a numbered subtitle built on which dining word?
Plate
Plate completes each title, from The Second Plate in 2016 to The Fifth Plate, which closed the anime in 2020.
Q 10Before Totsuki in Food Wars!, how has every one of Soma's many cook-offs against his father ended?
In defeat
Every cook-off ended in defeat for Soma, which is why surpassing his father drives him through the academy. Joichiro beats him yet again in a breakfast duel at the dorm.
Q 11Which Food Wars! student, known as the Meat Master, loses a shokugeki to Soma over a club's future?
Ikumi Mito
Ikumi Mito bets everything on top-grade A5 beef and still loses to Soma's supermarket cut. The heiress to a meat empire then has to join the rice-bowl club she came to shut down.
Q 12What beef dish served over rice wins Soma the shokugeki for the Don Research Society in Food Wars!?
Chaliapin steak
Chaliapin steak on rice wins every judge's vote, even though they at first refuse to taste a bowl made with discount supermarket beef.
Q 13Totsuki's feared French instructor Roland Chapelle is nicknamed in Food Wars! for never doing what?
Smiling
Q 21Which breakfast dish nearly fails Soma at the Food Wars! training camp until he cooks it live?
Soufflé omelette
Soufflé omelette deflates before any guest picks it up, so Soma switches to cooking in front of the crowd. He completes his 200 servings with seconds to spare.
Q 22What dish does Soma remake in Food Wars! to save his hometown shopping district from a rival chain?
Karaage
Karaage from a new chain was draining the district's customers, so Soma sells his own chilli-marinated version in a rice-flour wrap made for eating on the move. The chain's secret backer sits on the Elite Ten.
Q 23What dish must the sixty chosen first-years cook in the Autumn Election preliminaries in Food Wars!?
Curry
Smiling is what he never does, until Soma and his partner rescue a sabotaged beef bourguignon in his class. He says he wishes he could award them a grade higher than an A.
Q 14In Soma's first Totsuki class in Food Wars!, what does he use to tenderize beef after a sabotage?
Honey
Honey softens the meat fast enough for Soma to remake the dish after classmates oversalt the first attempt. The saboteurs then ruin their own pot and fail.
Q 15In Food Wars!, what is the cooking specialty of Erina's cousin and rival Alice Nakiri?
Molecular gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy lets Alice treat cooking as a science, a specialty she shares with her Danish mother Leonora. Soma's homely bento still beats hers in the Autumn Election.
Q 16In Food Wars!, Erina's aide Hisako Arato draws on her family's tradition to specialize in what?
Medicinal cooking
Medicinal cooking uses natural remedies and Chinese medicine to improve health. In the Autumn Election, Hisako's mutton dish even undoes the ill effects of a rival's foul-smelling entry.
Q 17Which Elite Ten member in Food Wars! lives in Soma's dorm and often wears nothing but an apron?
Satoshi Isshiki
Satoshi Isshiki holds the seventh seat as a second-year, and behind the apron he is a master of traditional Japanese cuisine. He later loses his seat for opposing the academy's takeover.
Q 18Which Elite Ten seat does prodigy Erina Nakiri hold when Soma arrives at Totsuki in Food Wars!?
Tenth
Tenth is the lowest seat, yet Erina won it as the youngest student ever to join the Elite Ten. She later resigns it to fight alongside Soma's rebels.
Q 19Which Paris-based Totsuki graduate in Food Wars! fails a student for improvising on a terrine?
Kojiro Shinomiya
Kojiro Shinomiya, known in Paris as the Vegetable Magician, is pressured into an unofficial shokugeki over the expulsion. It ends in a tie, and he lets the student stay.
Q 20Which record-setting Totsuki graduate in Food Wars! serves as head chef of the Totsuki Resorts?
Gin Dojima
Gin Dojima left with the highest marks in the school's history and turned down job offers from over 800 restaurants. He shared a dorm with Soma's father in their student days.
Curry is the theme, and many contestants spend the rest of the summer studying spices for it. Only the top four in each of two groups reach the main tournament.
Q 24Which spice expert with an extraordinary sense of smell wins the Autumn Election in Food Wars!?
Akira Hayama
Akira Hayama beats Soma in the final, where originality decides the judges' vote. He owes his career to Professor Jun Shiomi, who brought him out of the slums to Japan.
Q 25Which Food Wars! student wins duels by stalking rivals and cooking better copies of their dishes?
Subaru Mimasaka
Subaru Mimasaka had taken a prized tool from each of 100 beaten opponents before Soma wagered his whole career against him. Soma wins, and Mimasaka has to give up every one.
Q 26What prized tool does Soma's Italian rival stake and lose in an Autumn Election duel in Food Wars!?
Mezzaluna
The mezzaluna goes to an opponent who copied and improved his dessert. When Soma wins it back, its owner asks him to hold on to it until he can reclaim it himself.
Q 27What makes the final of the Autumn Election in Food Wars! unusual after a deadlocked semi-final?
It has three finalists
It has three finalists because the judges cannot separate the cooks in the second semi-final, so both go through to face Soma in the decider.
Q 28Which fish is the set theme of the Autumn Election final that Soma reaches in Food Wars!?
Pacific saury
Pacific saury pushes Soma to age his fish in salted rice bran, an idea borrowed from his dorm matron's pickles, though it is not enough to win.
Q 29What are the restaurant internships that follow the Autumn Election called in Food Wars!?
Stagiaire
Stagiaire sends each first-year to live and work at real restaurants and leave a visible mark on them. Soma's second posting is a demanding French kitchen run by a Totsuki graduate.
Q 30Which Food Wars! seafood specialist is Alice Nakiri's aide and treats the kitchen as a battlefield?
Ryo Kurokiba
Ryo Kurokiba is the former head chef of a pub on the coast of Denmark, and he later rises to a seat on the Elite Ten.