Food is the one trivia topic every kid at the table has an opinion about, which makes it the best one to start with. This list runs from questions a four year old can answer between bites to questions about capsaicin and cocoa pods that will catch out most adults.
Who Smarted? has made full episodes on the history of pizza, cereal and broccoli, so the questions here lean into where food actually comes from rather than just naming it. 90 questions, and every answer is hidden behind a tap so you can play it straight off a phone at the dinner table.
Tap a question to reveal its answer. Nothing to print, nothing to download.
How to Play This List
The tap to reveal format is built for a table, not a printout. Three ways to use it.
- At the dinner table: Hand the phone round. Whoever holds it reads a question out and taps to check. No scoring needed, and it keeps a meal going.
- Cooking together: Pick the questions about the ingredient you are actually using. The kitchen science ones about yeast, onions and capsaicin land best when the thing is in front of them.
- Party round: Read 20 questions out without revealing, let everyone write answers, then tap through the reveals together at the end.
Food Trivia Questions (Tap to Reveal Answers)
Tip: Read the question out loud, then tap Tap to reveal to check the answer.
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1. What fruit is known for having seeds on the outside?Tap to reveal
Answer: Strawberry -
2. Which vegetable is known to make people cry when they cut it?Tap to reveal
Answer: Onion -
3. What is the main ingredient in guacamole?Tap to reveal
Answer: Avocado -
4. Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?Tap to reveal
Answer: Fruit -
5. What part of the plant is a potato?Tap to reveal
Answer: The stem -
6. What do you call a person who eats fish but not meat?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pescatarian -
7. Which vegetable is used to make pickles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cucumber -
8. What dairy product is used to make cheese?Tap to reveal
Answer: Milk -
9. What is the name of the food that is made by bees using nectar from flowers?Tap to reveal
Answer: Honey -
10. What is deer meat called?Tap to reveal
Answer: Venison -
11. What does the “B” stand for in a BLT?Tap to reveal
Answer: Bacon -
12. What is the main ingredient in hummus?Tap to reveal
Answer: Chickpeas -
13. What is the main ingredient in Greek tzatziki sauce?Tap to reveal
Answer: Yogurt -
14. Which fruit is known for its high vitamin C content?Tap to reveal
Answer: Orange -
15. What is the main ingredient in a Caesar salad?Tap to reveal
Answer: Romaine lettuce -
16. What is the process of folding butter or other fats into dough to create many thin layers called?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lamination -
17. What do you call a baked dessert made with apples and crust?Tap to reveal
Answer: Apple pie -
18. What is gelatin made of?Tap to reveal
Answer: Gelatin comes from boiling cartilage, skin, and bones of animals such as pigs, cows, and chickens. -
19. What is the favorite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pizza -
20. Which fruit is known for its spiky outer skin and sweet yellow flesh?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pineapple -
21. What type of pasta is often served with meatballs?Tap to reveal
Answer: Spaghetti -
22. What breakfast food is often served with syrup and butter?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pancakes -
23. Which American city is most famous for its deep-dish pizza?Tap to reveal
Answer: Chicago -
24. What year was the chocolate chip cookie invented?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1938 -
25. What is the most widely eaten food worldwide?Tap to reveal
Answer: Rice -
26. Which fruit is known for being red and often used to make pies and jams?Tap to reveal
Answer: Strawberry -
27. Which country gets credit for developing French fries?Tap to reveal
Answer: Belgium -
28. What is the most expensive spice in the world by weight?Tap to reveal
Answer: Saffron -
29. What is the oldest major soft drink brand in the United States?Tap to reveal
Answer: Dr Pepper, first served in 1885 -
30. What was on the menu for the first meal eaten on the Moon?Tap to reveal
Answer: Bacon squares, along with peaches, sugar cookies and coffee -
31. What fruit is known as the “king of fruits”?Tap to reveal
Answer: Durian -
32. What is the most stolen food worldwide?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cheese -
33. What is the first vegetable to be planted in space?Tap to reveal
Answer: Potatoes -
34. Which vegetable is used to make French fries?Tap to reveal
Answer: Potato -
35. What sweet treat is made by freezing flavored liquid?Tap to reveal
Answer: Popsicle -
36. Which fruit is known for being green on the outside and red on the inside with black seeds?Tap to reveal
Answer: Watermelon -
37. What is the primary ingredient in a traditional Italian Margherita pizza?Tap to reveal
Answer: Tomato -
38. What type of pasta is shaped like little ears?Tap to reveal
Answer: Orecchiette -
39. Which fruit is known for its large size and spiky skin?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pineapple -
40. What dessert is made from cocoa beans?Tap to reveal
Answer: Chocolate -
41. What fruit is dried to make raisins?Tap to reveal
Answer: Grapes -
42. What food is sometimes called “liquid gold” and comes from olives?Tap to reveal
Answer: Olive oil -
43. Which nut is actually a legume, not a true nut?Tap to reveal
Answer: Peanut -
44. What sweetener do bees produce besides honey that humans sometimes eat?Tap to reveal
Answer: Royal jelly -
45. What vegetable is often carved into jack-o’-lanterns for Halloween?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pumpkin -
46. Which grain is used to make popcorn?Tap to reveal
Answer: Corn -
47. What is the main ingredient in miso soup?Tap to reveal
Answer: Fermented soybeans -
48. What fruit is known for being yellow and shaped like a crescent?Tap to reveal
Answer: Banana -
49. Which dairy product is churned to make butter?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cream -
50. What breakfast cereal mascot is a leprechaun?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lucky Charms -
51. What type of beans are used to make baked beans?Tap to reveal
Answer: Navy beans -
52. What fruit is sometimes called a “Chinese gooseberry”?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kiwi -
53. What ingredient makes bread rise?Tap to reveal
Answer: Yeast -
54. Which fruit is dried to make prunes?Tap to reveal
Answer: Plums -
55. What type of food is Manchego?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cheese (from Spain, made with sheep’s milk) -
56. What vegetable is sometimes called “courgette” in Europe?Tap to reveal
Answer: Zucchini -
57. What fruit has varieties called Bartlett and Anjou?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pear -
58. Which country is famous for inventing sushi?Tap to reveal
Answer: Japan -
59. What type of nut is used to make marzipan?Tap to reveal
Answer: Almonds -
60. What vegetable comes in varieties called Napa and Savoy?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cabbage -
61. What spice comes from the bark of a tree?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cinnamon -
62. What sea vegetable is wrapped around a sushi roll?Tap to reveal
Answer: Nori, which is a kind of seaweed -
63. Which country does pizza come from?Tap to reveal
Answer: Italy -
64. Which has more vitamin C, an orange or a red bell pepper?Tap to reveal
Answer: The red bell pepper, with roughly three times as much -
65. What is the main ingredient in traditional pesto besides basil?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pine nuts, garlic, olive oil, and hard cheese -
66. What makes popcorn pop?Tap to reveal
Answer: Water trapped inside the kernel turns to steam and bursts it open -
67. What vegetable is the main ingredient in coleslaw?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cabbage -
68. What is tofu made from?Tap to reveal
Answer: Soybeans -
69. Which country invented the croissant as we know it today?Tap to reveal
Answer: Austria, where a similar pastry called the kipferl came first, though France made it famous -
70. Which country does the dish paella come from?Tap to reveal
Answer: Spain -
71. What gives red peppers their heat?Tap to reveal
Answer: A compound called capsaicin -
72. What type of flour is used to make traditional pasta?Tap to reveal
Answer: Semolina, made from durum wheat -
73. What is a group of bananas called?Tap to reveal
Answer: A hand, and each banana is a finger -
74. Which vitamin does your body make when sunlight hits your skin?Tap to reveal
Answer: Vitamin D -
75. What part of the plant are we eating when we eat broccoli?Tap to reveal
Answer: The flower buds, picked before they open -
76. What is the hard outer layer of a loaf of bread called?Tap to reveal
Answer: The crust -
77. What part of the cocoa plant is chocolate made from?Tap to reveal
Answer: The bean, which is really a seed inside the cocoa pod -
78. Why do onions make you cry?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cutting one releases a gas that turns into a mild acid when it meets the water in your eyes -
79. What is the difference between jam and jelly?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jam is made with crushed fruit, jelly is made with only the juice -
80. Which country eats the most cheese per person?Tap to reveal
Answer: France -
81. What is the main ingredient in Japanese mochi?Tap to reveal
Answer: Sticky rice, pounded until it is smooth and stretchy -
82. Which vegetable can turn your skin slightly orange if you eat a lot of it?Tap to reveal
Answer: Carrots, because of a pigment called beta carotene -
83. What is the spiciest part of a chilli pepper?Tap to reveal
Answer: The pale pith inside, not the seeds -
84. Who is the sandwich named after?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Earl of Sandwich, an English nobleman -
85. Why does bread go stale?Tap to reveal
Answer: The starch inside slowly changes shape and pushes the water out -
86. Which nut grows on the outside of its fruit?Tap to reveal
Answer: The cashew -
87. What grain is traditional Scottish porridge made from?Tap to reveal
Answer: Oats -
88. Why is a banana very slightly radioactive?Tap to reveal
Answer: It is full of potassium, and a tiny fraction of natural potassium is radioactive -
89. What gives an egg yolk its colour?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pigments from what the hen eats, mostly corn and green plants -
90. Which salad vegetable is about 95 percent water?Tap to reveal
Answer: The cucumber
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Where Food Actually Comes From
Several answers here are whole episodes on the show. Try The History of Pizza, The History of Cereal, or The History of Broccoli, then subscribe at whosmarted.com.
