Breakfast Foods Quiz
Cereal mascots, eggs Benedict, congee and the man who invented muesli: 15 questions on the first meal of the day.
Tony the Tiger has been the mascot of which breakfast cereal since the 1950s?
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Frosted Flakes
Tony the Tiger debuted in 1952 on Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes, now sold as Frosted Flakes in the United States and Frosties in many other countries, with his catchphrase "They're Gr-r-reat!"
Tony originally shared the box with three other mascots, including Katy the Kangaroo, but he proved so popular that the others were dropped within a year or two.
Eggs Benedict are finished with which sauce poured over the poached eggs and ham?
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Hollandaise
Eggs Benedict stack poached eggs and ham or Canadian bacon on a toasted English muffin and cover them with hollandaise, a warm emulsion of egg yolks, butter and lemon juice.
Both Delmonico's and the Waldorf Hotel in New York claim to have created the dish in the 1890s for a customer named Benedict.
Which love-it-or-hate-it British breakfast spread is made from brewer's yeast extract?
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Marmite
Marmite is a dark, salty yeast extract first made in Burton upon Trent in 1902 from the leftover yeast of the town's breweries. It is spread thinly on buttered toast.
The famous "Love it or hate it" advertising line dates from 1996, and the jar's shape is based on the French marmite cooking pot shown on its label.
Which Canadian province produces the large majority of the world's maple syrup?
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Quebec
Quebec produces roughly 70 percent of the world's maple syrup and about 90 percent of Canada's, with its producers' federation holding a strategic reserve of millions of pounds.
Over several months in 2011 and 2012 thieves siphoned about 3,000 tonnes of syrup from the Quebec reserve, a heist worth around 18 million Canadian dollars.
Congee, a breakfast staple across East and Southeast Asia, is a porridge made from which grain?
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Rice
Congee is rice simmered in a large amount of water or stock until it breaks down into a thick porridge, served plain or topped with pork, century egg, ginger and spring onions.
In Cantonese it is called juk, and it is a traditional food for the sick because it is gentle on the stomach and easy to digest.
The French call it pain perdu, or lost bread. What do English speakers call this dish of egg-soaked fried bread?
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French toast
French toast is stale bread soaked in beaten egg and milk, then fried until golden, which is why the French name means lost bread: the dish rescues bread that would otherwise be wasted.
The recipe is far older than France itself: a version appears in Apicius, the Roman cookbook compiled around the fourth or fifth century.
Which blood sausage is a traditional component of a full English breakfast?
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Black pudding
Black pudding is a sausage of pork blood, fat and oatmeal or barley, sliced and fried alongside bacon, eggs, sausages and beans. Bury in Lancashire is especially famous for it.
Scotland's Stornoway black pudding, made on the Isle of Lewis, won EU protected geographical status in 2013.
Which Mexican breakfast serves fried eggs on warm tortillas with salsa and has a name meaning rancher's eggs?
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Huevos rancheros
Huevos rancheros were the mid-morning meal on rural Mexican farms: fried eggs on lightly fried corn tortillas, smothered in a cooked tomato and chili salsa, usually with refried beans.
Huevos divorciados, or divorced eggs, serve two eggs on the same plate separated by a line of beans, one covered in red salsa and the other in green.
Which South Indian breakfast is a thin, crisp, fermented pancake made from rice and black lentil batter?
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Dosa
A dosa is made from a fermented batter of rice and urad dal, spread thin on a hot griddle and cooked until crisp. A masala dosa is folded around spiced potatoes.
The same fermented batter steamed in molds produces soft, pillowy idli, usually eaten with sambar and coconut chutney.
W. K. Kellogg founded his Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 in which US city?
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Battle Creek
Kellogg launched the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in Battle Creek, Michigan, on 19 February 1906, after falling out with his brother John Harvey Kellogg over selling the flakes.
Rival C. W. Post had already invented Grape-Nuts in Battle Creek in 1897 after a stay at the Kellogg sanitarium, and the town became known as Cereal City.
A traditional Japanese breakfast of rice, miso soup and grilled fish often includes which sticky, strong-smelling fermented soybean dish?
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Natto
Natto is whole soybeans fermented with Bacillus subtilis, giving them a pungent smell and a stringy, sticky texture. It is stirred with soy sauce and mustard and eaten over hot rice.
Natto is far more popular in eastern Japan than in the west, and Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture is regarded as its spiritual home.
Which cereal has carried the slogan Breakfast of Champions since 1927 and put Lou Gehrig on its box in 1934?
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Wheaties
General Mills launched Wheaties in 1924, adopted the Breakfast of Champions slogan on a Minneapolis ballpark billboard in 1927 and made baseball star Lou Gehrig the first athlete on the box in 1934.
Michael Jordan has appeared on more Wheaties boxes than any other athlete, starting in 1988.
At which World's Fair did Maurice Vermersch sell his Bel-Gem waffles, popularizing the Belgian waffle in the United States?
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1964 New York
Vermersch sold his thick, yeast-raised Brussels waffles with strawberries and whipped cream at the 1964 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, calling them Bel-Gem waffles because so few Americans knew Brussels was in Belgium.
Belgian waffles had already been shown at the 1962 Seattle fair, but it was the New York crowds that turned them into a national breakfast item.
Which Swiss physician created muesli around 1900 as a raw food for patients at his Zurich clinic?
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Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Maximilian Bircher-Benner opened a sanatorium in Zurich in 1897 and served his patients a dish of raw oats soaked overnight with grated apple, nuts and lemon juice, which became known as Bircher muesli.
His original recipe used far more apple than oats: a single tablespoon of oats to one or two whole grated apples, bound with condensed milk.
Hagelslag, a popular Dutch breakfast topping eaten on buttered bread, consists of what?
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Chocolate sprinkles
Hagelslag, which means hailstorm in Dutch, is small chocolate sprinkles poured over buttered bread or rusks. Dutch households eat it at breakfast and lunch, and it is a classic treat for children.
A liquorice company called Venco first sold hagelslag in 1919, in aniseed flavor, and chocolate hagelslag followed from Venz in 1936.
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Breakfast is the meal that changes most from border to border. The Dutch sprinkle chocolate on buttered bread, the Japanese start with rice, miso soup and sticky fermented soybeans, and a Scottish doctor working around 1900 persuaded the world to eat raw oats soaked overnight. Even the cereal aisle has history: the slogan Breakfast of Champions has been around since 1927.
These 15 questions cover the classics people actually eat, from eggs Benedict and the full English to huevos rancheros and dosa, plus the origins of famous cereals and a few deeper cuts for breakfast obsessives. It suits anyone who takes the first meal of the day seriously, whether that means a fry-up or a bowl of congee.
You will find 15 multiple choice questions here, each with four options. Difficulty: Easy. Most people finish in about 6 minutes, and every answer comes with a short explanation and one extra fact worth keeping.
How to play
Read the question and pick one of the four answers. The correct answer is revealed straight away with a short explanation, then press Next question to keep going. At the end you get your score out of 15 and a full review of your round. Play again any time and the questions arrive in a fresh order. There is no timer and no account.
Good to know before you play
What is in a full English breakfast?
The usual plate has bacon, sausages, eggs, baked beans, grilled tomato, mushrooms, toast or fried bread, and black pudding, with regional extras such as bubble and squeak.
Which country invented breakfast cereal?
Ready-to-eat cereal is an American invention of the late 1800s, developed by health reformers in Battle Creek, Michigan, where W. K. Kellogg launched his corn flakes company in 1906.
What is the most popular breakfast in the world?
No single dish wins everywhere, but rice porridge in East Asia, bread with spreads in Europe and eggs in the Americas feed more people each morning than any branded cereal.
Answer key: all 15 questions with explanations
- Tony the Tiger has been the mascot of which breakfast cereal since the 1950s?
Frosted Flakes Tony the Tiger debuted in 1952 on Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes, now sold as Frosted Flakes in the United States and Frosties in many other countries, with his catchphrase "They're Gr-r-reat!" Tony originally shared the box with three other mascots, including Katy the Kangaroo, but he proved so popular that the others were dropped within a year or two. - Eggs Benedict are finished with which sauce poured over the poached eggs and ham?
Hollandaise Eggs Benedict stack poached eggs and ham or Canadian bacon on a toasted English muffin and cover them with hollandaise, a warm emulsion of egg yolks, butter and lemon juice. Both Delmonico's and the Waldorf Hotel in New York claim to have created the dish in the 1890s for a customer named Benedict. - Which love-it-or-hate-it British breakfast spread is made from brewer's yeast extract?
Marmite Marmite is a dark, salty yeast extract first made in Burton upon Trent in 1902 from the leftover yeast of the town's breweries. It is spread thinly on buttered toast. The famous "Love it or hate it" advertising line dates from 1996, and the jar's shape is based on the French marmite cooking pot shown on its label. - Which Canadian province produces the large majority of the world's maple syrup?
Quebec Quebec produces roughly 70 percent of the world's maple syrup and about 90 percent of Canada's, with its producers' federation holding a strategic reserve of millions of pounds. Over several months in 2011 and 2012 thieves siphoned about 3,000 tonnes of syrup from the Quebec reserve, a heist worth around 18 million Canadian dollars. - Congee, a breakfast staple across East and Southeast Asia, is a porridge made from which grain?
Rice Congee is rice simmered in a large amount of water or stock until it breaks down into a thick porridge, served plain or topped with pork, century egg, ginger and spring onions. In Cantonese it is called juk, and it is a traditional food for the sick because it is gentle on the stomach and easy to digest. - The French call it pain perdu, or lost bread. What do English speakers call this dish of egg-soaked fried bread?
French toast French toast is stale bread soaked in beaten egg and milk, then fried until golden, which is why the French name means lost bread: the dish rescues bread that would otherwise be wasted. The recipe is far older than France itself: a version appears in Apicius, the Roman cookbook compiled around the fourth or fifth century. - Which blood sausage is a traditional component of a full English breakfast?
Black pudding Black pudding is a sausage of pork blood, fat and oatmeal or barley, sliced and fried alongside bacon, eggs, sausages and beans. Bury in Lancashire is especially famous for it. Scotland's Stornoway black pudding, made on the Isle of Lewis, won EU protected geographical status in 2013. - Which Mexican breakfast serves fried eggs on warm tortillas with salsa and has a name meaning rancher's eggs?
Huevos rancheros Huevos rancheros were the mid-morning meal on rural Mexican farms: fried eggs on lightly fried corn tortillas, smothered in a cooked tomato and chili salsa, usually with refried beans. Huevos divorciados, or divorced eggs, serve two eggs on the same plate separated by a line of beans, one covered in red salsa and the other in green. - Which South Indian breakfast is a thin, crisp, fermented pancake made from rice and black lentil batter?
Dosa A dosa is made from a fermented batter of rice and urad dal, spread thin on a hot griddle and cooked until crisp. A masala dosa is folded around spiced potatoes. The same fermented batter steamed in molds produces soft, pillowy idli, usually eaten with sambar and coconut chutney. - W. K. Kellogg founded his Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 in which US city?
Battle Creek Kellogg launched the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in Battle Creek, Michigan, on 19 February 1906, after falling out with his brother John Harvey Kellogg over selling the flakes. Rival C. W. Post had already invented Grape-Nuts in Battle Creek in 1897 after a stay at the Kellogg sanitarium, and the town became known as Cereal City. - A traditional Japanese breakfast of rice, miso soup and grilled fish often includes which sticky, strong-smelling fermented soybean dish?
Natto Natto is whole soybeans fermented with Bacillus subtilis, giving them a pungent smell and a stringy, sticky texture. It is stirred with soy sauce and mustard and eaten over hot rice. Natto is far more popular in eastern Japan than in the west, and Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture is regarded as its spiritual home. - Which cereal has carried the slogan Breakfast of Champions since 1927 and put Lou Gehrig on its box in 1934?
Wheaties General Mills launched Wheaties in 1924, adopted the Breakfast of Champions slogan on a Minneapolis ballpark billboard in 1927 and made baseball star Lou Gehrig the first athlete on the box in 1934. Michael Jordan has appeared on more Wheaties boxes than any other athlete, starting in 1988. - At which World's Fair did Maurice Vermersch sell his Bel-Gem waffles, popularizing the Belgian waffle in the United States?
1964 New York Vermersch sold his thick, yeast-raised Brussels waffles with strawberries and whipped cream at the 1964 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, calling them Bel-Gem waffles because so few Americans knew Brussels was in Belgium. Belgian waffles had already been shown at the 1962 Seattle fair, but it was the New York crowds that turned them into a national breakfast item. - Which Swiss physician created muesli around 1900 as a raw food for patients at his Zurich clinic?
Maximilian Bircher-Benner Maximilian Bircher-Benner opened a sanatorium in Zurich in 1897 and served his patients a dish of raw oats soaked overnight with grated apple, nuts and lemon juice, which became known as Bircher muesli. His original recipe used far more apple than oats: a single tablespoon of oats to one or two whole grated apples, bound with condensed milk. - Hagelslag, a popular Dutch breakfast topping eaten on buttered bread, consists of what?
Chocolate sprinkles Hagelslag, which means hailstorm in Dutch, is small chocolate sprinkles poured over buttered bread or rusks. Dutch households eat it at breakfast and lunch, and it is a classic treat for children. A liquorice company called Venco first sold hagelslag in 1919, in aniseed flavor, and chocolate hagelslag followed from Venz in 1936.
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