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Quiz about Snacks Around the Globe
Quiz about Snacks Around the Globe

Snacks Around the Globe Trivia Quiz


Everybody loves snack foods; but not everybody snacks in the same way. I will give you the snack and some clues you need to tell me from what country the snack comes.

A multiple-choice quiz by adam36. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
adam36
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
360,480
Updated
Sep 17 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
1582
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. After a hard day in my country's Outback, I like nothing better than a sweet chocolate biscuit (cookie) called Tim Tam. In what country that is also a continent am I? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The Cadbury creme egg is a favorite Easter treat for children across the world. In what jolly old country, home to Westminster Abbey and Stonehenge, did Cadbury create this sweet sensation? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In my country we love to eat "Bamba", a certified kosher peanut butter coated and vitamin enriched puffed corn snack. What country that is home to the city of Tel Aviv and the Dead Sea loves Bamba? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In this country when we go the movies, instead of popcorn we might eat a snack called "iwashi senbei" which is a mixture of rice crackers, sugar, soy sauce and sardines. What island country known as the "Land of the Rising Sun" loves these dried sardine snacks? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. One of my favorite snacks is a chocolate egg with a small toy inside called Kinder Surprise. What country, with a capital city of Rome and famous for being the birthplace of Leonardo Da Vinci, produces the Kinder Surprise? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Ever had "gulab jamun"? These tasty snacks are fried dough soaked in a sweet syrup flavored with the scent of rose flowers. People eat gulab jamun in many places; but what country known for the Taj Mahal and the river Ganges is most associated with the snack? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who does not love potato chips? The fried thin-cut potato treat was first made by a chef in the country where the Statue of Liberty and Grand Canyon are located. What country created the potato chip? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Marzipan is a sweet snack made from almonds and is sold in many countries. What European country, where Berlin is the capital city and Beethoven was born, makes world-famous marzipan? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Everybody loves the sweet pastry called danish. But what country, with the capital of Vienna and famous as the birthplace of Mozart, actually invented the modern danish pastry? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What happens when you take French fried potatoes, smother them in white cheddar cheese curds and add a thick sauce? Why, you get poutine and probably also a stomach ache. What country, home to the cities of Montreal and Quebec, gave us poutine? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. After a hard day in my country's Outback, I like nothing better than a sweet chocolate biscuit (cookie) called Tim Tam. In what country that is also a continent am I?

Answer: Australia

Tim Tam biscuits are the most popular cookie in Australia. Children and adults love the cookie that has two graham cracker type biscuits in between a creamy chocolate filling and then covered in a chocolate coating for good measure. Even though the cookie is an Australian favorite, the name "Tim Tam" comes from America.

The owner of Arnott's Biscuits was looking for a name for his new cookie. He attended the 1958 Kentucky Derby horse race in the US. The winner of the race was a horse named Tim Tam. Mr. Arnott thought that was a perfect name for his new cookie and it seems he was right.
2. The Cadbury creme egg is a favorite Easter treat for children across the world. In what jolly old country, home to Westminster Abbey and Stonehenge, did Cadbury create this sweet sensation?

Answer: England

Cadbury was started in 1824 as a small tea and chocolate shop by brothers John and Benjamin Cadbury in Birmingham, England. The brothers and their family eventually made Cadbury one of the largest candy companies in the world. A Cadbury Creme Egg is a milk chocolate "eggshell" with a white and yellow creamy filling that looks like the albumen (white) and yolk (yellow) of a real egg. Cadbury creme eggs are only made each year from New Years Day until Easter; but during that time are so popular that Cadbury's English plant makes over 1.5 million eggs a day.
3. In my country we love to eat "Bamba", a certified kosher peanut butter coated and vitamin enriched puffed corn snack. What country that is home to the city of Tel Aviv and the Dead Sea loves Bamba?

Answer: Israel

Bamba is so popular in Israel that it makes up almost one quarter of all the country's snack food sales. To be certified "kosher" means a Jewish rabbi has inspected the place where Bamba is made and determined that the ingredients and manufacturing process meet the standards of Jewish dietary laws. According to a recent study in the UK, Israeli children have fewer reported cases of peanut allergies. Part of the reason the doctors say is that children are as young as four months old when they start eating Bamba creating a tolerance to the peanut.
4. In this country when we go the movies, instead of popcorn we might eat a snack called "iwashi senbei" which is a mixture of rice crackers, sugar, soy sauce and sardines. What island country known as the "Land of the Rising Sun" loves these dried sardine snacks?

Answer: Japan

Sardines in a candy snack? Yes believe it, iwashi (sardine) senbei (rice crackers) are a huge favorite in Japan. The fish crackers are a high protein and lower fat snack that Japanese families often eat at the movie theatre in the same way that American or British families eat popcorn. If sardines are not to your liking you can get different varieties of fish based senbei such as dried horse mackerel (aji hone senbei) or tonguefish (geta karei).

The Japanese are not the only culture that use dried fish as a snack. In Korea, for example, a popular snack food is a roll of dried cuttlefish (tastes like squid) and is mixed with corn or rice cakes.
5. One of my favorite snacks is a chocolate egg with a small toy inside called Kinder Surprise. What country, with a capital city of Rome and famous for being the birthplace of Leonardo Da Vinci, produces the Kinder Surprise?

Answer: Italy

Many people think the Kinder Surprise comes from Germany because "kinder" means child in German; but the chocolate snack is produced by the Italian company Ferrero Spa. Ferrero also makes the hazelnut chocolate spread food Nutella and the popular Ferrero Rocher candies. First made in 1974, the Kinder Surprise is a hollow milk chocolate egg with a plastic capsule that has a small toy inside.

The toys often require some assembly and are collected and traded by children and adults alike. Despite its popularity the Kinder Surprise is not legal for sale in the US because of a concern that the toys are too small and could be swallowed by smaller children.
6. Ever had "gulab jamun"? These tasty snacks are fried dough soaked in a sweet syrup flavored with the scent of rose flowers. People eat gulab jamun in many places; but what country known for the Taj Mahal and the river Ganges is most associated with the snack?

Answer: India

Gulab jamun is a sweet dessert that is popular world-wide but particularly in India. The gulab jamun is a fried dough that is then soaked in a sweet syrup often scented with rose water. The dessert became popular in India during the Mughal rule of much of the subcontinent in the 15th-18th centuries.

Many cultures have some variation of the round dough and sweet syrup snack. Doughnut holes sprinkled with sugar are popular in the US; while people in Greece enjoy "loukoumas" which is a round dough fried and covered in honey mixed with cloves and cinnamon.
7. Who does not love potato chips? The fried thin-cut potato treat was first made by a chef in the country where the Statue of Liberty and Grand Canyon are located. What country created the potato chip?

Answer: United States

Potato chips were invented because a chef got mad at a customer who kept returning his food. In 1853 George Crum was a chef in a hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York. The story goes that a customer ordered French fried potatoes thinly sliced. Mr. Crum prepared the potatoes, but the customer returned them for being too thick.

After cutting the potatoes thinner, the customer returned the fries again. Mr. Crum then cut the potatoes so thin you could see through them. Rather than be upset the customer loved the new creation and when other patrons of the hotel started to ask for the thin sliced treat the "potato chip" was here to stay. Americans love potato chips so much they eat over 1.5 billion pounds of the snack each year.
8. Marzipan is a sweet snack made from almonds and is sold in many countries. What European country, where Berlin is the capital city and Beethoven was born, makes world-famous marzipan?

Answer: Germany

Marzipan is often associated with Germany but was likely invented in China or Persia and brought to Europe during the Middle Ages by returning Crusaders. The sweet treat is made from ground almonds and sugar mixed to form a paste, and the paste is then formed into shapes.

A popular way to serve marzipan is to shape the paste to look like small fruits. The northern German city Lubeck is a center for marzipan production, and has been famous for the snack since Johan Niederegger began selling the product in 1806 setting a high standard for its taste. Today certified "Lubecker marzipan" is a symbol of high quality and can only come from marzipan made in this area of Germany.
9. Everybody loves the sweet pastry called danish. But what country, with the capital of Vienna and famous as the birthplace of Mozart, actually invented the modern danish pastry?

Answer: Austria

Yes it is true the danish pastry was not created in Denmark but rather in Austria. However we can thank the Danes for the popularity of the sweet treat. In 1850 bakers in Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, went on strike. In order to get baked goods the Danes had to rely on bakers from other countries. Austrian bakers started to sell a sweet bread popular in their country that soon became all the rage in Denmark.

When the strike was settled Danish bakers continued to sell the treat with great success. "Danish" style pastry became even more popular in the early 20th century when the Danish baker Lauritz Klitteng prepared the treat at the wedding of US President Woodrow Wilson.

As a tribute to the origins of the danish pastry in Denmark the treat is called "wienerbrød," or "Viennese Bread."
10. What happens when you take French fried potatoes, smother them in white cheddar cheese curds and add a thick sauce? Why, you get poutine and probably also a stomach ache. What country, home to the cities of Montreal and Quebec, gave us poutine?

Answer: Canada

Poutine is a French-Canadian snack first invented during the 1950s in the province of Quebec. Exactly who created poutine is a matter of debate. Some Canadians claim poutine was invented in 1957 in Warwick, Quebec at a small restaurant in Drummondville Quebec in 1964. Either way, by the 1970s poutine was served throughout Canada and the eastern US. Poutine has three basic elements: French fried potatoes, a sauce and white cheddar cheese curls which are small chunks of cheese with a taste like cottage or farmers' cheese.
Source: Author adam36

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