Fun Food Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers about Random Miscellaneous Foods
What type of oven will not brown
foods?
A: Microwave oven.
What type of food did Linda McCartney launch?
A: Vegetarian food.
What type of tree leaves are the only food that a koala
bear will
eat?
A: Eucalyptus.
Which country in Europe consumes more spicy
Mexican food than any
other?
A: Norway.
The FDA approved what fat substitute for use in snack foods even
though there were reports of side affects like cramps and diarrhea?
A: Olestra.
Federal labeling regulations require how much caffeine be removed
from coffee for it to be called decaffeinated?
A: Ninety seven percent.
What famous Greek once advised: "Let your food be your medicine,
and your medicine be your food"?
A: Hippocrates.
What interesting way does the snakebird, darter, or water turkey
catch fish?
A: It spears the fish with its long, straight, sharp bill.
Chicken is the leading cause of what food born illness?
A: Salmonella
poisoning.
Who invented Margarine in 1868?
A: Hyppolyte Merge-mouries.
What group of people were the first to use freeze-drying on
potatoes?
A: The Incas.
What was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles favorite food?
A: Pizza.
What food was considered the food of the Gods, and was said to
bring eternal life to anyone who ate it?
A: Ambrosia.
When Birdseye first introduced its frozen foods in
1930, what was
it called?
A: Frosted Food.
What was the convenience food that Joel Cheek developed?
A: Instant Coffee.
What did Clarence Birdseye do before hitting on the idea of
frozen foods?
A: He trapped frogs for a zoo.
The song, Food, Glorious Food, was featured in which
musical?
A: Oliver.
Of the Worlds food crops, what percentage is pollinated by
insects?
A: 80 percent.
The Giant panda's favorite food is what?
A: Bamboo shoots.
Which entertainer on Conan O'Brien's show, choose NBC cafeteria
chicken over his own brand in a blind taste test?
A: Kenny Rogers.
What drink was sold as Diastoid when first introduced?
A: Malted milk.
What type of micro organism makes up the base of marine and
freshwater food chains?
A: Plankton.
What type of creature builds a lodge in which to store food, rear
its young, and pass the winter?
A: Beaver.
What fruit or vegetable was dubbed the FlavrSavr and was the
first genetically engineered food sold in the United States?
A: The tomato.
What fitness guru appeared as a dancing meatball in an Italian TV
commercial as an art student?
A: Richard Simmons.
What Olympic athlete could not run the 200-meter final in the 92
Olympics because of food poisoning?
A: Michael Johnson.
What morning food has a name derived from the German word for
stirrup?
A: Bagel.
In 1904, what food product was renamed Post Toasties cereal
because the clergy objected to the original name?
Elijah's Manna.
In the United States, what are the five most frequently eaten
fruits?
A: The banana, apple,
watermelon, orange, and
cantaloupe