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120 free Pizza trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free pizza trivia questions with answers. Think you're a pizza expert? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive pizza trivia quiz featuring 120 questions covering everything from pizza history and famous pizzerias to toppings and cultural facts. Whether you're a casual pizza lover or a true connoisseur, this quiz will challenge what you know about the world's favorite food.
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Q 01Which crooner's 1953 hit 'That's Amore' compares the moon to 'a big pizza pie'?
Dean Martin
Dean Martin first sang it in the 1953 comedy The Caddy after partner Jerry Lewis, by his own account, quietly asked the songwriters for a hit to give Dean more to do; it became a signature tune.
Q 02Which Neapolitan pizza's toppings match the three colours of the Italian flag?
Margherita
Margherita: legend has Raffaele Esposito creating it for Queen Margherita in 1889, but the EU's own specification dates the tomato, mozzarella and basil pizza to 1796-1810, long before her visit.
Q 03Under the EU's Pizza Napoletana rules, how must the dough be stretched into a disc?
By hand alone
By hand alone: the pizzaiolo works from the centre outwards with the fingers of both hands, and the rules ban the rolling pin and the mechanical press by name.
Q 04St. Louis-style pizza is traditionally sliced in which way, known locally as a party cut?
Into small squares
Into small squares: the rigid, cracker-like crust is cut into three- or four-inch tiles, a habit often linked, perhaps fancifully, to Imo's founder Ed Imo, who set tiles by day.
Q 05On an Italian pizza menu, what topping is 'carciofi'?
Artichokes
Artichokes: carciofi go on a pizza as marinated hearts, and Roman Jewish cooks made them famous by deep-frying them whole, a dish called carciofi alla giudia.
Q 06Pepperoni is a spicy cured sausage seasoned chiefly with chili peppers and which other spice?
Paprika
Paprika, rather than black pepper, flavours most pepperoni, a soft, fine-grained and slightly smoky sausage, bright red like the spicy sausages of southern Italy that it resembles.
Q 07James Monaghan swapped his half of the future Domino's to brother Tom for which delivery vehicle?
Volkswagen Beetle
Volkswagen Beetle: the car the brothers used for deliveries was Jim's price for leaving the DomiNick's shop they had taken over in 1960, because he would not give up his job as a postman.
Q 08Which chain, whose slogan shouts 'Pizza!' twice, was founded in Garden City, Michigan, in 1959?
Little Caesars
Little Caesars' doubled slogan advertised its signature deal: two pizzas for the price of one.
Q 09The 1980s 'Pizza Connection' trial convicted Mafia members of using pizzerias as fronts to distribute what?
Heroin
Heroin worth well over a billion dollars reached American streets through pizza parlours the Sicilian Mafia used as fronts, and a trial lasting some 17 months ended in 1987 with 18 convictions.
Q 10St. Louis-style pizza's defining cheese, a processed blend with a low melting point and a gooey texture, is called what?
Provel
Provel is a processed blend of cheddar, Swiss and provolone, reportedly devised by a St. Louis grocer for pizzerias that wanted a cheese that melts well yet breaks off cleanly at the bite.
Q 11Pissaladière, a pizza-like tart of onions, anchovies and olives, is a speciality of which French city?
Nice
Nice: the onions are stewed slowly in oil until soft before they are spread over the dough, and the anchovies and olives go on top.
Q 12Tomatoes, now essential to pizza, reached Europe only in the 1500s from which part of the world?
The Americas
The Americas: Spanish ships brought the tomato over, but elsewhere in Europe it was long grown as an ornament and suspected of being poisonous, so tomato-topped pizza came much later.
Q 13What is the name for the puffy, raised edge of an authentic Neapolitan pizza crust?
Cornicione
Cornicione forms because the dough is pressed from the centre outwards, leaving a thicker edge that swells in the oven to 1 to 2 cm, the height both the EU and AVPN rules set.
Q 21A pizza 'quattro stagioni' is divided into four sections representing what?
The seasons of the year
The seasons of the year: each quarter gets one topping chosen to stand for its season, such as mushrooms for autumn, whereas a capricciosa scatters the same ingredients across the whole pizza.
Q 22Julia Roberts's character falls for the pizza at Naples' Da Michele in which film?
Eat Pray Love
Eat Pray Love follows writer Liz Gilbert through Italy, India and Bali as she rebuilds her life after a divorce, and its pizza scene was shot on location in Naples.
Q 23Which country's president joked in 2017 that he would ban pineapple on pizza if he could?
Iceland
Q 14In 2011 Congress blocked a rule change, so school pizza's tomato paste kept counting as a serving of what?
Vegetables
Vegetables: the USDA wanted half a cup of tomato paste before a slice could count, frozen-food makers lobbied against it, and Congress kept the old rule that two tablespoons was enough.
Q 15A true Neapolitan pizza bakes in its wood-fired oven for no more than about how long?
90 seconds
90 seconds is the ceiling: the rules set the bake at 60 to 90 seconds because the oven floor runs at about 485°C, and the pizza must come out still soft enough to fold into four.
Q 16Which part of Neapolitan pizza culture did UNESCO add to its intangible heritage list in 2017?
The pizzaiuolo's craft
The pizzaiuolo's craft: UNESCO listed the art of Naples' pizza makers, from working and spinning the dough to baking it, a skill apprentices learn by watching masters in the workshop.
Q 17Which Italian region is the traditional home of San Marzano tomatoes?
Campania
Campania: San Marzano tomatoes are prized as sweeter and less acidic than other plum tomatoes, and only fruit grown in the Sarno valley, between Naples and Salerno, may be sold under the protected name.
Q 18In a pizzeria, what job does the long-handled 'peel' do?
Loads the oven
Loads the oven: the peel is a baker's shovel, and under the EU's Neapolitan rules the pizzaiolo slides the raw pie in with a flick of the wrist and lifts it out again on a metal one.
Q 19Which cheese, alongside fior di latte, may top a true Neapolitan pizza under the Naples pizza association's rules?
Mozzarella di bufala campana
Mozzarella di bufala campana is made from water-buffalo milk, richer in fat and protein than cow's milk; the association's recipe has it sliced and spread evenly, while fior di latte goes on in strips.
Q 20A 997 document from Gaeta, the earliest known use of the word 'pizza', has a tenant owing twelve pizzas to whom?
Bishop
The bishop of Gaeta was owed twelve pizzas every Christmas Day and twelve more at Easter, along with pork and chickens, as rent on a property.
Iceland: President Guðni Jóhannesson made the off-the-cuff remark to a group of high-school pupils, and it set off a flurry of news coverage and pineapple arguments around the world.
Q 24Sam Panopoulos named the Hawaiian pizza he created in Ontario in 1962 after what?
A pineapple brand
A pineapple brand: Panopoulos tipped the tinned fruit onto a pizza at his Satellite Restaurant 'just for the fun of it', and the name came straight off the can.
Q 25Pizza marinara, which carries neither seafood nor cheese, takes its name from which group of people?
Sailors
Sailors: 'alla marinara' means sailor-style, and tradition has it that seafarers favoured the topping of tomato, garlic and herbs because its ingredients kept well on a voyage.
Q 26Which film opens with John Travolta strutting down a Brooklyn street eating two stacked pizza slices?
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever has Tony Manero order two slices at Lenny's Pizza and eat them stacked as he walks; the Brooklyn shop later sold a double-decker slice in Travolta's honour.
Q 27Which folded, half-moon pizza takes its name from the Italian for 'trouser leg'?
Calzone
Calzone literally means 'trouser leg', a name given for the resemblance; it is folded once into a crescent and sealed, whereas the stromboli it is often confused with is rolled.
Q 28The term "pizza al taglio" refers to what style of pizza?
Rectangular slices sold by weight
Rectangular slices sold by weight: pizza al taglio is baked in big trays and cut to whatever size the buyer asks for, then priced by the kilo or per 100 grams.
Q 29Which small turnover from Puglia, stuffed like a pizza with tomato and mozzarella, is fried rather than baked?
Panzerotto
Panzerotto: the name is usually traced to panza, a regional word for belly, after the way the sealed half-moon of dough swells up in the hot oil.
Q 30Pizza Hut's 2001 delivery to the International Space Station was topped with which meat, since pepperoni wouldn't keep?
Salami
Salami was chosen because pepperoni failed the shelf-life tests; cosmonaut Yuri Usachov ate the extra-salted pie in orbit, part of a promotion that cost the chain about $1 million.