70 free Strawberry trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
57 free strawberry trivia questions with answers. Strawberries are the most familiar fruit that almost nobody knows anything about. This strawberry trivia quiz has 70 questions covering the science (why it is not a berry, what the seeds really are, why the plants have eight sets of chromosomes), the surprising history (a French spy, two American parent species and a field in Brittany), and everything the fruit has lent its name to: Wimbledon's signature snack, the Beatles' Strawberry Fields, Strawberry Shortcake, the Strawberry Moon, a poison frog, a Bosch painting, Madrid's coat of arms and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries. The early questions suit a family game, a strawberry festival stall or a classroom, and the later ones will stretch a pub quiz team: Belgium's strawberry capital, the pastry chef who invented the fraisier, the colonial governor who served the first strawberry ice cream. It works just as well as a June round, a food quiz or a summer party filler. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and primary sources, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Botanically speaking, which of these is a strawberry?
An aggregate accessory fruit
The red flesh grows from the flower's receptacle, not the ovary, which is why botanists refuse to call it a berry while bananas and tomatoes qualify.
Q 02The tiny 'seeds' dotting the outside of a strawberry are actually what?
Achenes, each holding a seed
Every strawberry is carrying dozens of complete fruits on its skin; the part you eat is technically the packaging.
Q 03Strawberries belong to which group of plants?
The rose family
Apples, pears, cherries, raspberries and almonds are all cousins in the same family, Rosaceae.
Q 04The modern garden strawberry was first bred in the 1750s in which region?
Brittany, France
It came from crossing a Virginia strawberry from North America with a Chilean one, so the world's favourite berry is an accidental French hybrid of two American parents.
Q 05What was the day job of Amédée-François Frézier, who brought the Chilean strawberry to Europe in 1714?
Spy
Frézier was sent to survey Spanish fortifications on the Chilean coast, and came home with five strawberry plants as well as his intelligence.
Q 06The Chilean strawberry plants first grown in France grew vigorously but bore no fruit. Why?
Their flowers were all female
Gardeners in Brittany fixed it by planting wild woodland strawberries among them for pollen, and the plants suddenly fruited heavily.
Q 07The scientific name of the garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, refers to which other fruit?
Pineapple
Eighteenth-century growers called it the 'pine strawberry' because of its flavour, and the Latin name kept the comparison.
Q 08Which country produced the most strawberries in 2024, at roughly 38 percent of the world total?
China
World production topped ten million tonnes, with the United States a distant second.
Q 09Raw strawberries are roughly what percentage water?
91%
That leaves 8 percent carbohydrate and almost no fat, at about 33 calories per 100 grams.
Q 10A 100-gram serving of strawberries provides about 65 percent of the daily value of which nutrient?
Vitamin C
That is more per gram than an orange offers; manganese is the only other nutrient present in a significant amount.
Q 11Which pigment gives strawberries their red colour?
Pelargonidin-3-glucoside
It is an anthocyanin, the same family of pigments that colours red cabbage and blueberries.
Q 12Since strawberry allergy is linked to a protein tied to red pigment, which cultivars may suit allergy sufferers?
White-fruited ones
White strawberries ripen fully but never colour up, and a near allergen-free cultivar called 'Sofar' exists.
Q 13Strawberries and cream is the signature snack of which sporting event?
Wimbledon
In 2019 the tournament served 191,930 portions of it.
Q 21What is the name of Strawberry Shortcake's arch-enemy in the classic cartoons?
The Purple Pieman
He returned alongside Sour Grapes in the 2006 film and again in the 2018 YouTube series.
Q 22Which town in Florida calls itself the winter strawberry capital of the world?
Plant City
Its Florida Strawberry Festival, first held in 1930, runs 11 days and draws about half a million people.
Q 23The Florida Strawberry Festival was conceived in 1930 by which local group?
The Lions Club
It ran annually until World War II halted it from 1941 to 1947, then the American Legion helped revive it.
Q 14Strawberries and cream is said to date to a visit Henry VIII paid to which of his officials?
Cardinal Wolsey
Wolsey's cook at Hampton Court is rumoured to have served wild strawberries and cream, and because the king ate it, everyone else wanted it too.
Q 15The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' was named after what kind of place in Liverpool?
A Salvation Army children's home
John Lennon played in its garden as a boy; the red gates on Beaconsfield Road became a fan pilgrimage site and were once stolen.
Q 16'Strawberry Fields Forever' was released in 1967 as a double A-side with which other Beatles song?
Penny Lane
The pairing peaked at number 2 at home, ending the band's four-year run of chart-topping singles.
Q 17The Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon in Central Park has a mosaic bearing which single word?
Imagine
The mosaic sits near West 72nd Street, close to the Dakota building where Lennon lived and was killed.
Q 18The children's character Strawberry Shortcake began life in the 1970s as what?
A greeting card illustration
Artist Barbi Sargent's 'Girl with a Daisy' card was so popular that American Greetings asked for a strawberry-themed outfit.
Q 19What was special about the hair of the original 1979 Strawberry Shortcake dolls?
It was scented
Every character's doll smelled like its own fruit or dessert, and Strawberry Shortcake's cat was named Custard.
Q 20Which toy company released the first Strawberry Shortcake doll in 1979?
Kenner
The first version was a rag doll with red yarn curls, freckles and a strawberry-print bonnet.
Q 24Which Louisiana town's Strawberry Festival ranks second only to Mardi Gras in the state?
Ponchatoula
The first festival in April 1972 had just 11 booths and opened with a college baseball game.
Q 25Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, is headquartered in which town near Monterey Bay?
Watsonville
The company breeds proprietary varieties and licenses them only to approved growers, and it invented the hinged plastic clamshell in the 1990s.
Q 26Which state grew 86 percent of America's fresh strawberries and 98 percent of its frozen ones in 2017?
California
Monterey, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties alone accounted for close to 80 percent of the state's crop.
Q 27The 'Strawberry Moon' is the full moon of which month in the Farmers' Almanac tradition?
June
The name spread through the Farmers' Almanac tradition of month-by-month full moon names.
Q 28What was Deana Carter's 1996 debut single, a number one about a first love on a grandparents' farm?
Strawberry Wine
Songwriter Matraca Berg based it on her own teenage summers near Luck, Wisconsin.
Q 29Who produced the Brothers Johnson's 1977 hit cover of 'Strawberry Letter 23'?
Quincy Jones
The 12-inch single was pressed on red, strawberry-scented vinyl, and Shuggie Otis wrote the original in 1971.
Q 30The 1960s band Strawberry Alarm Clock is best remembered for which psychedelic hit?
Incense and Peppermints
The lead vocal was sung by a 16-year-old friend of the band who was not even a member.