Strawberry Trivia
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66 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 66 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
A strawberry is an aggregate accessory fruit: the red flesh grows from the flower's receptacle, not the ovary, so botanists do not call it a berry, while bananas and tomatoes are true berries.
Q 02The tiny 'seeds' dotting the outside of a strawberry are actually what?
Achenes, each holding a seed
They are achenes, tiny dry fruits each holding one seed; a single strawberry carries around 200 of them on its skin, while the red flesh is the swollen receptacle.
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
Spy: Frézier, a French army engineer, posed as a merchant to map Spanish fortifications on the Chilean coast, and sailed home in 1714 with five strawberry plants.
Q 06The scientific name of the garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, refers to which other fruit?
Pineapple
Pineapple: eighteenth-century growers called the hybrid the 'pine strawberry' for its flavour, and the epithet ananassa comes from ananas, the word for pineapple.
Q 07Which country grew the most strawberries in 2023, about a third of the world total?
China
China: it grew over three million tonnes in 2023, roughly a third of the world crop, with the United States a distant second.
Q 08Raw strawberries are roughly what percentage water?
91%
About 91 percent: USDA data give 91 grams of water per 100 grams of raw strawberries, with 8 grams of carbohydrate, almost no fat and about 32 calories.
Q 09A 100-gram serving of strawberries provides about 65 percent of the daily value of which nutrient?
Vitamin C
Vitamin C: 100 grams of strawberries hold about 59 milligrams, slightly more than an orange; manganese is the only other nutrient present in a significant amount.
Q 10Which pigment gives strawberries their red colour?
Pelargonidin-3-glucoside
Pelargonidin-3-glucoside, an anthocyanin, makes up most of the red pigment in ripe strawberries; the same pigment family colours red cabbage and blueberries.
Q 11Which kind of strawberry cultivar may suit people with a strawberry allergy?
White-fruited ones
White-fruited ones: the main allergen, Fra a 1, is involved in making red pigment, so white cultivars that ripen fully without colouring carry far less of it.
Q 12Strawberries and cream is the signature snack of which sporting event?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon: the tournament gets through roughly 28 tonnes of Kent strawberries each year, served with cream, a tradition traced back to the first championships in 1877.
Q 13Strawberries and cream is said to date to a visit Henry VIII paid to which of his officials?
Cardinal Wolsey
Q 21Which town in Florida calls itself the winter strawberry capital of the world?
Plant City
Plant City, east of Tampa, grows most of Florida's winter crop; its Florida Strawberry Festival, first held in 1930, runs 11 days and draws about half a million people.
Q 22The Florida Strawberry Festival was conceived in 1930 by which local group?
The Lions Club
The Plant City Lions Club launched the Florida Strawberry Festival in 1930 to celebrate the harvest; it was suspended during World War II and revived in 1948.
Q 23Which Louisiana town, the self-styled Strawberry Capital of the World, holds a Strawberry Festival each April?
Ponchatoula
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 14The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' was named after what kind of place in Liverpool?
A Salvation Army children's home
Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in Woolton; John Lennon played in its garden as a boy, and its red gates on Beaconsfield Road became a fan pilgrimage site.
Q 15'Strawberry Fields Forever' was released in 1967 as a double A-side with which other Beatles song?
Penny Lane
Penny Lane: the February 1967 double A-side stalled at number 2 behind Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Release Me', ending the band's four-year run of chart-topping singles.
Q 16The Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon in Central Park has a mosaic bearing which single word?
Imagine
The black-and-white mosaic reads 'Imagine', after Lennon's 1971 song; it sits near West 72nd Street, across from the Dakota where he lived and was shot in 1980.
Q 17The children's character Strawberry Shortcake began life in the 1970s as what?
A greeting card illustration
A greeting card illustration: American Greetings first used the strawberry-bonneted girl on a card in 1977, then licensed the character for dolls and toys in 1979.
Q 18What was special about the hair of the original 1979 Strawberry Shortcake dolls?
It was scented
It was scented: each character's hair smelled of its own fruit or dessert, and Strawberry Shortcake's pet cat was named Custard.
Q 19Which toy company released the first Strawberry Shortcake doll in 1979?
Kenner
Kenner, the Cincinnati toy maker behind the Star Wars figures, licensed Strawberry Shortcake from American Greetings and sold the scented dolls from 1979 into the mid-1980s.
Q 20What is the name of Strawberry Shortcake's arch-enemy in the classic cartoons?
The Purple Pieman
The Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak, a moustachioed pastry thief, was her foe from the 1980 TV specials onward, usually scheming alongside Sour Grapes.
Ponchatoula, in Tangipahoa Parish, first held its Strawberry Festival in April 1972 and calls itself the Strawberry Capital of the World.
Q 24Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, is headquartered in which town near Monterey Bay?
Watsonville
Watsonville, in the Pajaro Valley south of Santa Cruz, is home to Driscoll's, whose roots there go back to 1904; it breeds proprietary varieties and licenses them only to approved growers.
Q 25Which state grew nearly nine in ten of America's strawberries in 2017?
California
California: Monterey, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties alone accounted for most of the state's crop, grown on the cool, foggy coastal plain.
Q 26The 'Strawberry Moon' is the full moon of which month in the Farmers' Almanac tradition?
June
June: the name, recorded from Algonquin peoples and popularised by the Maine Farmer's Almanac in the 1930s, marks the short strawberry-picking season of early summer.
Q 27What was Deana Carter's 1996 debut single, a number one about a first love on a grandparents' farm?
Strawberry Wine
'Strawberry Wine', written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, topped the country chart in 1996 and won the CMA Song of the Year award in 1997.
Q 28Who produced the Brothers Johnson's 1977 hit cover of 'Strawberry Letter 23'?
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones produced the Brothers Johnson's 1977 album 'Right on Time', whose cover of Shuggie Otis's 1971 song 'Strawberry Letter 23' reached number five on the Hot 100.
Q 29The 1960s band Strawberry Alarm Clock is best remembered for which psychedelic hit?
Incense and Peppermints
'Incense and Peppermints' topped the Hot 100 in November 1967; its lead vocal was sung by Greg Munford, a 16-year-old friend of the band who was not a member.
Q 30Wild Strawberries' Swedish title, Smultronstället, idiomatically means what?
A hidden gem of a place
The film won the Golden Bear at Berlin and gave Victor Sjöström his final screen role.