All About Breakfast Trivia Quiz

Answer: sweet roll, jam, fruit, coffee

The term "continental breakfast" has been around since the middle 1800s to describe a light morning meal in contrast to the heavier full English breakfast of many fried foods. The British used the term to mean what one is likely to be served in France or on the Mediterranean: a baked good, jam, fruit and coffee.

It does not include eggs, nor meat, nor potatoes, nor pancakes, nor waffles. It is typically served in a hotel, a restaurant or at a convention center to a large group of people.

Answer: Holly Golightly

Hepburn co-stared with George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney. Holly Golightly was a toast of Manhattan café society. The film won two Academy Awards: one for Best Original Score and the other Best Original Song, "Moon River."

Answer: When It's Round-Up Time in Texas

Gene Autrey starred in the 1937 Western motion picture "Round-Up Time in Texas." The film's theme song, alternatively called "When the Bloom is on the Sage," is sung at both the beginning and the end of the picture, by Gene, Smiley Burnette and others.

The best-known recording of the song was done in 1940 by the Sons of the Pioneers. The lyrics include: "When it's round-up time in Texas and the bloom is on the sage, then I long to be in Texas back a-ridin' on the range. Just to smell the bacon fryin' when it's sizzlin' in the pan.

Hear the breakfast horn in the early morn drinkin' coffee from a can."

Answer: Red Dwarf

Commander Arnold "Ace" Judas Rimmer is the alternate-reality counterpart to Vending Machine Technician Second Class Arnold J. Rimmer. The commander is a dashing figure, a brave test pilot, dressed in a gold reflective flight jacket with white scarf and aviator's sunglasses.

This contrasts to Technician Rimmer's starched uniform and nerdish manner. Ace is popular with everyone; nobody likes regular Rimmer. And they dislike each other. The line about kippers for breakfast is tossed off whenever Ace nonchalantly volunteers for an incredibly risky mission.

Answer: a mess, a muddle, a gallimaufry

Since the late 1800s, a "dog's breakfast" has meant (in the U.K. and Australia) a confused mess, an untidy mixture, a mishmash, a muddle, a hodge podge, anything badly done, a confusion, a turmoil, a farrago. The source of the term is unknown; several colourful conjectures have been offered, such as the suggestion that when a culinary effort fails so badly that it is only fit to serve to the family pet, it is a dog's breakfast. "A Dog's Breakfast" is also a 2006 Canadian comedy motion picture written and directed by David Hewlett of "Stargate" TV fame.

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. which would become "The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table" were published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. The premise is that the conversations, mostly one-sided, took place around a New England boarding-house breakfast table.

The topics are wide-ranging; the tone is not too serious. The essays typically include a poem by the autocrat or quotes from poems ostensibly written by the other conversants. The essays were collected in a book in 1858. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is the subject of a biography written by Catherine Drinker Bowen, "Yankee from Olympus" (1944).

Answer: scrambled eggs

Many claim to have invented the breakfast burrito but its origins are lost somewhere in the mesquite-smoked mists of the culinary history of New Mexican, Mex-Tex and New Southwestern cookery. A burrito is a flour tortilla wrapped like a torpedo around seasoned meat, flavourful salsas, fresh vegetables, beans and cheese.

Some are hand-held and others are sauced on a plate. What makes a breakfast burrito different is the inclusion of typical North American breakfast foods: eggs, bacon, sausage, fried potatoes. Most North American fast-food restaurants (not just the pseudo-Mexican ones) have one on their menu.

Answer: black pudding

The contents of a Full English Breakfast may be debated (fiercely) by partisans. It generally includes bacon, sausages, eggs with runny yolks, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread (or toast), and black pudding. The precise ingredients vary by region, chef and availability. Black pudding is a British form of blood sausage made of oatmeal, pork or beef suet, and pork blood.

This is typically seasoned with pennyroyal. If made without blood, it is called white pudding. The sausage is sliced into 1/2-inch pieces and fried.

Answer: Wheaties / Kurt Vonnegut

General Mills has advertised its breakfast cereal Wheaties as "the breakfast of champions" since the 1930s. It regularly features the picture of a current sports hero on its box. In Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday," a waitress ironically calls the martinis she serves "the breakfast of champions." In full compliance with US trademark and copyright laws, Vonnegut notes that "Breakfast of Champions" is a registered trademark of General Mills and states that his use of it is not "intended to disparage their fine products." In 1999, the novel was made into a not-very-good motion picture.

Answer: high school students in detention

Hughes wrote and directed "The Breakfast Club." The teen comedy-drama starred a group of young actors dubbed "the Brat Pack" by the media: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. Each actor represents a different sort of student at Shermer High School, none of whom normally mix, but who are forced to interact by being placed in detention on a Saturday.

The film fared well with the critics and made money, as well.