Q 01/05

In what year was the word 'vegan' coined?

A) 1944

B) 1951

C) 1963

D) 1978

Answer · why

A) 1944

Donald and Dorothy Watson coined it while setting up a newsletter in Leicester, England, for members who also shunned dairy and eggs.

Q 02/05

The word 'vegan' was built from the first three and last two letters of which word?

A) Vegetable

B) Vegetation

C) Vegetarian

D) Vegetal

Answer · why

C) Vegetarian

Its inventor said it marked the beginning and end of vegetarianism, the point the movement should logically arrive at.

Q 03/05

Who coined the word 'vegan'?

A) Leslie Cross

B) Donald Watson

C) Henry Salt

D) Sylvester Graham

Answer · why

B) Donald Watson

He was a woodwork teacher who set up the first vegan newsletter with the schoolteacher he later married.

Q 04/05

World Vegan Day is celebrated on which date each year?

A) 1 January

B) 22 April

C) 1 October

D) 1 November

Answer · why

D) 1 November

The date marks the founding of the Vegan Society in November 1944; November as a whole is often promoted as World Vegan Month.

Q 05/05

Which famous playwright wrote to the first issue of The Vegan News in 1944?

A) J. B. Priestley

B) Noel Coward

C) George Bernard Shaw

D) T. S. Eliot

Answer · why

C) George Bernard Shaw

Shaw had been a vegetarian since the 1880s and lived to 94, which he liked to attribute to his diet.