Christmas Food & Drinks Trivia

Christmas Food & Drinks Trivia

1. 1.What drink is made with milk, cream, sugar and eggs?easy

   Answer: Eggnog

2. 2.What spice gives gingerbread its name?easy

   Answer: Ginger

3. 3.What fruit is traditionally put in a Christmas stocking?medium

   Answer: An orange (or clementine)

4. 4.Which country invented the Christmas cracker?medium

   Answer: England (Tom Smith, 1847)

5. 5.What is a Bûche de Noël?medium

   Answer: A French Yule log cake

6. 6.What fast-food chain do many Japanese families eat at on Christmas?medium

   Answer: KFC

7. 7.What is stollen?medium

   Answer: A German fruit bread dusted with sugar

8. 8.What is mulled wine called in Germany?medium

   Answer: Glühwein

9. 9.Originally, mince pies contained what ingredient?medium

   Answer: Minced meat

10. 10.Which bird was popular for Christmas dinner before turkey in England?hard

    Answer: Goose (also swan or peacock)

11. 11.What is the Italian sweet bread eaten at Christmas called?easy

    Answer: Panettone

12. 12.What is a Christmas pudding often set on fire with?medium

    Answer: Brandy

13. 13.In Portugal, which dried fish is eaten on Christmas Eve?hard

    Answer: Bacalhau (salt cod)

14. 14.In which US state were candy canes first mass-produced (Bunte Brothers / Bob McCormack)?hard

    Answer: Georgia

15. 15.What meat is most commonly eaten at Christmas dinner in the US and UK?easy

    Answer: Turkey

16. 16.What are 'pigs in blankets' in the UK?easy

    Answer: Small sausages wrapped in bacon

17. 17.What sauce traditionally accompanies turkey?easy

    Answer: Cranberry sauce

18. 18.What is the main spirit in a traditional eggnog?medium

    Answer: Rum, brandy or bourbon

19. 19.What nut is often roasted at Christmas time?easy

    Answer: Chestnuts

20. 20.Which Christmas vegetable is famously divisive in Britain?easy

    Answer: Brussels sprouts

21. 21.What is a 'Yule log' when served as dessert?easy

    Answer: A rolled chocolate sponge cake

22. 22.In which country is 'lebkuchen' a traditional Christmas treat?medium

    Answer: Germany

23. 23.What Polish Christmas Eve dinner traditionally has how many dishes?hard

    Answer: Twelve

24. 24.What is 'wassail'?medium

    Answer: A hot mulled cider or ale punch

25. 25.What is traditionally hidden in a Christmas pudding for luck?medium

    Answer: A silver coin (sixpence)

26. 26.Which country eats 'tamales' as a Christmas tradition?medium

    Answer: Mexico

27. 27.What Swedish spiced wine is served at Christmas?medium

    Answer: Glögg

28. 28.What is a 'Christmas ham' glazed with in many recipes?easy

    Answer: Honey, mustard or brown sugar

29. 29.What colour stripes does a traditional candy cane have?easy

    Answer: Red and white

30. 30.What flavour is a classic candy cane?easy

    Answer: Peppermint

31. 31.What are 'Pfeffernüsse'?hard

    Answer: Small German spiced cookies

32. 32.What Italian Christmas Eve dinner tradition involves seafood?medium

    Answer: The Feast of the Seven Fishes

33. 33.What is 'figgy pudding' a type of?medium

    Answer: Steamed pudding (like Christmas pudding)

34. 34.Which Scandinavian rice pudding hides a whole almond?hard

    Answer: Risalamande (Denmark) / risgrynsgröt

35. 35.What is 'kutia', served in Ukraine and Lithuania on Christmas Eve?hard

    Answer: A sweet grain dish with poppy seeds and honey

36. 36.What is the French Christmas Eve feast called?hard

    Answer: Le Réveillon

37. 37.What is 'coquito'?hard

    Answer: A Puerto Rican coconut eggnog

38. 38.What is the traditional Christmas cake of Japan?medium

    Answer: Strawberry shortcake

39. 39.What popular Christmas cookie is cut into shapes and decorated?easy

    Answer: Sugar cookies

40. 40.What is the main ingredient in marzipan?medium

    Answer: Almonds

41. 41.What fruit is the main ingredient in cranberry sauce?easy

    Answer: Cranberries

42. 42.What spice is sprinkled on top of eggnog?medium

    Answer: Nutmeg

43. 43.What is a 'Christmas pudding' also called?medium

    Answer: Plum pudding

44. 44.Are there plums in plum pudding?hard

    Answer: Usually not — 'plums' meant raisins

45. 45.What is 'brandy butter' served with?medium

    Answer: Christmas pudding or mince pies

46. 46.What are 'mince pies' filled with today?medium

    Answer: Mincemeat (dried fruit, spices, suet)

47. 47.What is the traditional Christmas dinner in Germany often?medium

    Answer: Roast goose

48. 48.What is 'Christstollen' marked with?hard

    Answer: Powdered sugar (it represents baby Jesus' swaddling)

49. 49.What Austrian crescent cookies are a Christmas favourite?hard

    Answer: Vanillekipferl

50. 50.What is 'pavlova', often eaten at Christmas in Australia?medium

    Answer: A meringue dessert with fruit

51. 51.What Venezuelan Christmas dish is wrapped in banana leaves?hard

    Answer: Hallacas

52. 52.What Puerto Rican pork dish is a Christmas centrepiece?hard

    Answer: Lechón (roast pork)

53. 53.What is 'pannetone' traditionally from?medium

    Answer: Milan, Italy

54. 54.What is the Italian Christmas cake from Verona?medium

    Answer: Pandoro

55. 55.What sweet nougat is eaten in Spain at Christmas?medium

    Answer: Turrón

56. 56.What are 'polvorones'?hard

    Answer: Crumbly Spanish shortbread cookies

57. 57.What is 'julskinka'?hard

    Answer: Swedish Christmas ham

58. 58.What smorgasbord is eaten at Swedish Christmas?hard

    Answer: Julbord

59. 59.What Norwegian dish of dried fish soaked in lye is eaten at Christmas?hard

    Answer: Lutefisk

60. 60.What is 'pinnekjøtt'?hard

    Answer: Norwegian salted, dried lamb ribs

61. 61.What is the traditional Christmas Eve fish in Poland?medium

    Answer: Carp

62. 62.What are 'pierogi'?medium

    Answer: Polish filled dumplings

63. 63.What is 'barszcz' served with on Polish Christmas Eve?hard

    Answer: Uszka (little dumplings)

64. 64.What are 'kūčiukai' in Lithuania?hard

    Answer: Small poppy-seed biscuits eaten on Christmas Eve

65. 65.What drink are kūčiukai often served with?hard

    Answer: Poppy seed milk (aguonų pienas)

66. 66.What is 'gløgg' commonly garnished with?medium

    Answer: Raisins and almonds

67. 67.What hot drink is made with apple juice and spices?easy

    Answer: Mulled cider (hot cider)

68. 68.What is the drink 'Tom and Jerry'?hard

    Answer: A warm eggnog-like cocktail

69. 69.What is the 'Christmas cake' in the UK typically covered with?medium

    Answer: Marzipan and royal icing

70. 70.What is 'Dundee cake'?hard

    Answer: A Scottish fruit cake topped with almonds

71. 71.What are 'Brussels sprouts' a miniature version of?easy

    Answer: Cabbage

72. 72.What starchy side is roasted crispy with turkey in the UK?easy

    Answer: Roast potatoes

73. 73.What Yorkshire batter puddings are sometimes served at Christmas?medium

    Answer: Yorkshire puddings

74. 74.What sauce made of bread is served with British turkey?hard

    Answer: Bread sauce

75. 75.What is stuffing called when cooked outside the bird in the US?medium

    Answer: Dressing

76. 76.What American pie is popular at Christmas?easy

    Answer: Pecan pie or pumpkin pie

77. 77.What are 'snickerdoodles' coated in?medium

    Answer: Cinnamon sugar

78. 78.What colour sugar is used on traditional Christmas cookies?easy

    Answer: Red and green sprinkles

79. 79.What candy is shaped like a ribbon in Victorian Christmas tradition?hard

    Answer: Ribbon candy

80. 80.What do Americans call the dessert also known as 'fruitcake'?easy

    Answer: Fruitcake

81. 81.Which US town claims to be the Fruitcake Capital of the World?hard

    Answer: Corsicana, Texas (also Claxton, Georgia)

82. 82.What is 'rumtopf'?hard

    Answer: German fruit preserved in rum

83. 83.What fruit is the Japanese Christmas cake topped with?easy

    Answer: Strawberries

84. 84.What is 'bibingka' in the Philippines?hard

    Answer: A rice cake eaten at Christmas

85. 85.What sweet is made from candied orange peel and chocolate?hard

    Answer: Orangettes

86. 86.What bread shaped like a ring is eaten on Epiphany in Mexico?medium

    Answer: Rosca de Reyes

87. 87.What is hidden inside the Rosca de Reyes?medium

    Answer: A small baby Jesus figurine

88. 88.What French Epiphany cake hides a charm?medium

    Answer: Galette des Rois

89. 89.What is the charm in a Galette des Rois called?hard

    Answer: La fève

90. 90.What Brazilian dessert is a Christmas favourite similar to French toast?hard

    Answer: Rabanada

91. 91.What Greek honey cookies are eaten at Christmas?hard

    Answer: Melomakarona

92. 92.What are 'kourabiedes'?hard

    Answer: Greek butter cookies covered in powdered sugar

93. 93.What is 'oliebollen', eaten at Dutch New Year?hard

    Answer: Deep-fried dough balls

94. 94.What spices are in a classic mulled wine?medium

    Answer: Cinnamon, cloves, star anise, orange

95. 95.What is 'Christmas pudding' traditionally made on 'Stir-up Sunday'?hard

    Answer: Five weeks before Christmas

96. 96.What does each family member do on Stir-up Sunday?medium

    Answer: Stir the pudding and make a wish

97. 97.What sweet shaped like a log is made in Italy from chestnuts?hard

    Answer: Tronchetto di Natale

98. 98.What is the drink 'Bailey's' made with?medium

    Answer: Irish whiskey and cream

99. 99.What candy is often found in a stocking shaped like coins?easy

    Answer: Chocolate coins

100. 100.What is 'peppermint bark'?medium

     Answer: Chocolate layered with crushed candy canes

101. 101.What is 'gingerbread latte' flavoured with?easy

     Answer: Ginger and spices

102. 102.What is the famous Christmas drink sold in red cups at Starbucks?easy

     Answer: Seasonal drinks like Peppermint Mocha