Q 01/05

Which Tunnock's treat did the RAF ban from V-bomber cockpits in 1965 after one burst on an instrument panel?

A) Caramel Wafer

B) Teacake

C) Caramel Log

D) Snowball

Answer · why

B) Teacake

The Teacake was a favourite ration of nuclear-deterrent crews until an unwrapped one expanded in the thin air and exploded; the RAF only lifted the ba...

Q 02/05

During the Second World War the major stones of the Crown Jewels were hidden in a tin that had held which biscuit?

A) Abernethy

B) Cream cracker

C) Bath Oliver

D) Water biscuit

Answer · why

C) Bath Oliver

A Bath Oliver tin was chosen so the gems could be grabbed and hidden fast if Germany invaded; the hard, dry biscuit itself was devised by physician Wi...

Q 03/05

The Bourbon, the chocolate sandwich biscuit created by Peek Freans of Bermondsey, takes its name from what?

A) A whiskey from Kentucky

B) A boulevard in Paris

C) An island in the Caribbean

D) A dynasty of French kings

Answer · why

D) A dynasty of French kings

A dynasty of French kings, the House of Bourbon that also ruled Spain, lent the biscuit its name, not the American whiskey most people assume.

Q 04/05

In the Armada year of 1588, a Royal Navy sailor's ration was a pound of ship's biscuit and a gallon of what?

A) Beer

B) Water

C) Rum

D) Cider

Answer · why

A) Beer

Beer, a gallon a day, was safer than water on a long voyage, and the rock-hard biscuit was often softened by dunking it in whatever liquid was to hand...

Q 05/05

Which currant-filled biscuit, launched by Peek Freans in 1861, is nicknamed the 'squashed fly' biscuit?

A) Lincoln

B) Garibaldi

C) Shrewsbury

D) Fruit Shortcake

Answer · why

B) Garibaldi

The Garibaldi honours an Italian general who visited Tyneside in 1854; its flattened currants, pressed between two thin layers of dough, look enough l...