Q 01/05

A lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy but excludes what?

A) Eggs

B) Butter

C) Honey

D) Cheese

Answer · why

A) Eggs

An ovo-vegetarian eats eggs but no dairy; lacto-ovo vegetarians eat both, and all of them include honey.

Q 02/05

Which is described as the strictest of the vegetarian diets, excluding all animal products?

A) Lacto-ovo

B) Pescetarian

C) Vegan

D) Flexitarian

Answer · why

C) Vegan

Some vegans also refuse leather shoes and silk clothes.

Q 03/05

In which year was the world's first Vegetarian Society founded, in England?

A) 1809

B) 1847

C) 1888

D) 1908

Answer · why

B) 1847

It was formed at Ramsgate in Kent, and its founding popularised the word 'vegetarian' itself.

Q 04/05

Which actress and abolitionist first wrote the word 'vegetarian', in an 1838–39 journal?

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe

B) Fanny Burney

C) Fanny Kemble

D) Sarah Siddons

Answer · why

C) Fanny Kemble

Before that, the practice was called a 'vegetable regimen' or 'vegetable diet'.

Q 05/05

Alcott House, linked to the earliest uses of 'vegetarian', opened in 1838 on which London common?

A) Barnes

B) Wimbledon

C) Clapham

D) Ham

Answer · why

D) Ham

From 1841 it was known as the Concordium, and its pupils ate no animal products at all.