Q 01/05

Which Cuban highball mixes white rum with crushed mint, lime, sugar and soda water?

A) Mojito

B) Daiquiri

C) Caipirinha

D) Mint Julep

Answer · why

A) Mojito

Mojito lore traces the drink to 'El Draque', a 16th-century remedy named after Sir Francis Drake, whose crew took lime, mint and rough cane spirit off...

Q 02/05

Legend has the Manhattan invented at an 1870s banquet thrown by the American mother of which future British PM?

A) David Lloyd George

B) Neville Chamberlain

C) Stanley Baldwin

D) Winston Churchill

Answer · why

D) Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill's mother, Jennie Jerome, supposedly hosted the Manhattan Club banquet for Samuel Tilden, but she was in Europe around the time of Wi...

Q 03/05

The short tumbler also known as a rocks glass or lowball shares its name with which whiskey cocktail?

A) Manhattan

B) Old Fashioned

C) Whiskey Sour

D) Mint Julep

Answer · why

B) Old Fashioned

The Old Fashioned gave its name to the glass it is served in; the drink was itself named in the 1880s, when drinkers tired of fancy new mixtures asked...

Q 04/05

The Sazerac, rinsed in absinthe or Herbsaint, is the official cocktail of which city?

A) New York City

B) Chicago

C) San Francisco

D) New Orleans

Answer · why

D) New Orleans

New Orleans got the Sazerac as its official cocktail from the Louisiana Legislature in June 2008, only after a bill to make it the state cocktail was ...

Q 05/05

Which three-piece cocktail shaker has a built-in strainer and a small cap on top?

A) Boston shaker

B) Parisian shaker

C) Cobbler shaker

D) Julep shaker

Answer · why

C) Cobbler shaker

The cobbler shaker's built-in strainer, a three-piece design patented in 1884, lets a home bartender pour straight from the tin, where a two-piece sha...