Q 01/05

Poutine, the dish of fries, cheese curds and hot gravy, was created in the late 1950s in which country?

A) United States

B) France

C) Belgium

D) Canada

Answer · why

D) Canada

It came out of the Centre-du-Québec region and was mocked for years; in 2007 a CBC poll ranked it among the greatest Canadian inventions.

Q 02/05

Which savoury pudding of sheep's heart, liver and lungs is the centrepiece of a Burns supper?

A) Faggots

B) Haggis

C) Stovies

D) Black pudding

Answer · why

B) Haggis

The supper falls on or near 25 January, Robert Burns's birthday. Since 1971 the real thing has been illegal to import into the US because of a ban on ...

Q 03/05

In which city is chicken tikka masala, hailed in 2001 as 'a true British national dish', thought to have been invented?

A) London

B) Birmingham

C) Glasgow

D) Manchester

Answer · why

C) Glasgow

The usual credit goes to Ali Ahmed Aslam of the Shish Mahal restaurant, who supposedly added a tomato-cream sauce for a customer who found his chicken...

Q 04/05

The croissant is descended from the kipferl, a crescent pastry from which country?

A) Austria

B) Belgium

C) France

D) Hungary

Answer · why

A) Austria

An Austrian officer, August Zang, opened a Viennese bakery in Paris in 1838 or 1839, and the French laminated-dough version grew from there.

Q 05/05

The word ketchup most likely comes from Hokkien Chinese words for the brine of what?

A) Fermented soybeans

B) Salted plums

C) Pickled fish

D) Crushed grapes

Answer · why

C) Pickled fish

The first tomato ketchup recipe did not appear until 1812, when James Mease published one in America.