Q 01/05

Which card game was Lord Sandwich reportedly playing when he called for beef between two pieces of toast?

A) Cribbage

B) Whist

C) Faro

D) Piquet

Answer · why

A) Cribbage

The appeal was practical: he could keep gambling without a fork and without greasing his cards.

Q 02/05

The familiar Lord Sandwich gambling anecdote first appeared in a 1770 travel book by which French writer?

A) Voltaire

B) Pierre-Jean Grosley

C) Abbé Prévost

D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer · why

B) Pierre-Jean Grosley

His impressions of London came from a single year spent there in 1765, and the tale reached English readers in translation in 1772.

Q 03/05

Honoring the 4th Earl of Sandwich, Captain James Cook named which islands the 'Sandwich Islands' in 1778?

A) Fiji

B) Tahiti

C) Hawaii

D) Tonga

Answer · why

C) Hawaii

Cook also named the South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic and Montague Island off Alaska for his patron.

Q 04/05

The sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped Paschal lamb and bitter herbs in what?

A) Lavash

B) A pita pocket

C) Grape leaves

D) Soft matzah

Answer · why

D) Soft matzah

The Passover custom is often cited as the earliest recorded ancestor of the modern wrap.

Q 05/05

In 2024 a court in which US state ruled that tacos and burritos are 'Mexican-style sandwiches'?

A) Indiana

B) Texas

C) Ohio

D) Arizona

Answer · why

A) Indiana

The judge added that the same logic would cover Greek gyros, Indian naan wraps and Vietnamese bánh mì.