Food & Drink Trivia: Tasty Facts for Quiz Night

Food and drink rounds are always a crowd-pleaser because everyone has to eat. Serve up these facts and you will be the one calling out answers before the plates are cleared.

Fruit & Veg Surprises

• Bananas are botanically berries, while strawberries are not.
• A tomato is technically a fruit, though it is used like a vegetable in cooking.
• Peanuts are not true nuts — they are legumes, in the same family as peas and beans.
• Carrots were once commonly purple before the familiar orange variety became popular.

Kitchen Records

• Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world by weight, because each flower yields only a few threads.
• Honey never spoils — sealed jars found in ancient tombs were still edible thousands of years later.
• There are hundreds of distinct varieties of cheese made around the world.

Drinks With a Story

• Tea is one of the most widely consumed drinks in the world, second only to water.
• Coffee beans are actually the seeds found inside a bright red fruit called a coffee cherry.
• Champagne can only be called Champagne if it comes from the Champagne region of France.

How to Remember It All

Group your facts by course — starters, mains, drinks and desserts — and quiz yourself one course at a time. Bite-sized practice beats trying to swallow the whole menu at once.

Hungry for points? Play a free Food & Drink quiz and see how many of these you can serve up correctly.