Q 01/05

Which masked McDonaldland character spent decades in black-and-white stripes trying to steal Ronald McDonald's food?

A) Grimace

B) Captain Crook

C) The Hamburglar

D) Mayor McCheese

Answer · why

C) The Hamburglar

The Hamburglar returned in 2015, when McDonald's brought the character back to help launch a new sirloin burger.

Q 02/05

"Hamburger Charlie" Nagreen claimed to have sold the first hamburger at an 1885 county fair in which state?

A) Michigan

B) Wisconsin

C) Illinois

D) Minnesota

Answer · why

B) Wisconsin

Wisconsin's Seymour fair is where the 15-year-old is said to have squashed a meatball between bread so customers could eat while they walked. He came ...

Q 03/05

Louis' Lunch, which says it served the first hamburger in 1900, is in which city?

A) Hartford, Connecticut

B) Providence, Rhode Island

C) New Haven, Connecticut

D) Boston, Massachusetts

Answer · why

C) New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut, is where a rushed customer in 1900 supposedly got steak trimmings between two slices of toast. Louis' Lunch still serves its b...

Q 04/05

At Louis' Lunch, which claims to have invented the hamburger, asking for which of these is famously forbidden?

A) Cheese

B) Tomato

C) Onion

D) Ketchup

Answer · why

D) Ketchup

Ketchup is out, like every other condiment, because the owners want customers to taste the meat. The founder's family, now in its fourth generation, a...

Q 05/05

At which event was the hamburger called "the innovation of a food vendor on the pike"?

A) 1904 St. Louis World's Fair

B) 1893 Chicago World's Fair

C) 1901 Pan-American Exposition

D) 1876 Centennial Exposition

Answer · why

A) 1904 St. Louis World's Fair

1904 St. Louis World's Fair: a New York Tribune reporter filed the line, and 'the pike' was the fair's midway. The reporter never named the vendor, so...