Q 01/05

Which bean-and-meat stew is considered Brazil's national dish?

A) Feijoada

B) Moqueca

C) Sarapatel

D) Barreado

Answer · why

A) Feijoada

Feijoada: legend says enslaved cooks invented it from discarded pork cuts, but food historians trace the stew to Portugal's bean-and-meat dishes, rema...

Q 02/05

What is Brazil's national cocktail?

A) Batida

B) Caipirinha

C) Rabo-de-galo

D) Pisco sour

Answer · why

B) Caipirinha

Caipirinha: Brazilian law protects the recipe. A federal decree reserves the name for cachaça mixed with lime and sugar, and the same drink made with ...

Q 03/05

Cachaça, Brazil's native liquor, is distilled from what?

A) Corn mash and malt

B) Fermented grape must

C) Fermented cane juice

D) Manioc starch

Answer · why

C) Fermented cane juice

Fermented cane juice, not the molasses used for most rum, is what cachaça is distilled from; even so, US labels had to call it rum until a 2013 rule r...

Q 04/05

Brigadeiros are chocolate truffles made from cocoa powder, butter and what?

A) Cream cheese

B) Coconut milk

C) Egg yolks

D) Condensed milk

Answer · why

D) Condensed milk

Condensed milk, cooked with cocoa and butter until fudgy. Supporters of Brigadier Eduardo Gomes made and sold the sweets at his 1945 presidential rall...

Q 05/05

Which grape-like Brazilian fruit grows straight out of the trunk of its tree?

A) Pitanga

B) Acerola

C) Jabuticaba

D) Grumixama

Answer · why

C) Jabuticaba

Jabuticaba: once picked the berries start to ferment within days, so fresh ones rarely reach markets far from where they grow, and the fruit is often ...