Q 01/05

Legend says cook George Crum invented potato chips in 1853 in which New York resort town?

A) Lake Placid

B) Niagara Falls

C) Cooperstown

D) Saratoga Springs

Answer · why

D) Saratoga Springs

The story is now known to be untrue, but 'Saratoga Chips' stayed a common name into the mid-20th century.

Q 02/05

The saddle shape of a Pringles chip is known mathematically as what?

A) A truncated torus

B) A hyperbolic paraboloid

C) An oblate spheroid

D) A parabolic cylinder

Answer · why

B) A hyperbolic paraboloid

P&G chemist Fredric Baur spent two years developing the shape and chose the tube; his ashes were later buried in a Pringles can.

Q 03/05

In a 2008 London case, P&G argued Pringles were not crisps because the potato content was only what?

A) 12%

B) 42%

C) 58%

D) 75%

Answer · why

B) 42%

They also argued the shape 'is not found in nature'; the Court of Appeal reversed the ruling in 2009 and the VAT bill stood.

Q 04/05

Doritos were first created in the early 1960s at a restaurant inside which theme park?

A) Knott's Berry Farm

B) Disneyland

C) Six Flags Over Texas

D) Coney Island

Answer · why

B) Disneyland

Casa de Fritos in Anaheim made them from leftover tortillas; they went national in 1966 in a single flavour, Toasted Corn.

Q 05/05

Which snack, invented by Fritos creator Charles Elmer Doolin in 1948, is fronted by Chester Cheetah?

A) Cheetos

B) Funyuns

C) Bugles

D) Cheez-Its

Answer · why

A) Cheetos

Chester first appeared in TV ads in 1986; the Flamin' Hot version was developed at Frito-Lay's Texas headquarters from 1989.