Q 01/05

At what kind of event were pork sausages traditionally handed out in Frankfurt, giving 'frankfurter' its name?

A) Imperial coronations

B) Cathedral consecrations

C) Autumn beer festivals

D) Royal weddings

Answer · why

A) Imperial coronations

The tradition began with the crowning of Maximilian II as King and the sausages had been known there since the 13th century.

Q 02/05

The word 'wiener' refers to which European capital?

A) Berlin

B) Budapest

C) Prague

D) Vienna

Answer · why

D) Vienna

A Coburg butcher named Johann Georg Lahner is said to have carried the Frankfurt recipe there and added beef to the pork mix.

Q 03/05

Which Coney Island pieman's 1867 sausage-boiling cart is one of the strongest claims to inventing the hot dog in a bun?

A) Harry M. Stevens

B) Nathan Handwerker

C) Charles Feltman

D) Anton Feuchtwanger

Answer · why

C) Charles Feltman

He called them 'Coney Island Red Hots,' and by the 1920s his complex of restaurants, bars and a carousel served over five million people a year.

Q 04/05

A St. Louis vendor named Feuchtwanger reportedly began serving sausages in rolls because customers kept taking what?

A) His tin plates

B) His mustard pots

C) His wooden skewers

D) The white gloves he lent them

Answer · why

D) The white gloves he lent them

His wife supposedly suggested the bun; other versions move the tale to a World's Fair, in either 1893 Chicago or 1904 St. Louis.

Q 05/05

Why is the legend that cartoonist 'Tad' Dorgan coined 'hot dog' around 1900 impossible?

A) Dorgan never drew for a New York paper

B) The phrase is documented in print from 1884

C) Dorgan only ever wrote about boxing

D) The word 'dog' was taboo in newspapers then

Answer · why

B) The phrase is documented in print from 1884

'Dog' had been slang for sausage since the 1800s, thanks to accusations about what went into them; Dorgan's earliest documented use is 1906.