Food and Drink in 'The Hunger Games' Quiz

Answer: Bread, goat's cheese, basil and blackberries

Katniss and Gale are both skilled hunters who poach animals and forage for plants in the woods to feed their families, as their fathers died in a mining accident. Sometimes they exchange their catches for food and fuel at the Hob, the local market. Prim, Katniss' little sister, owns a goat and uses her milk to make cheese, and Katniss and Gale eat the cheese with some freshly baked bread, basil leaves and wild blackberries. Katniss hunts with a bow and arrow, which she keeps hidden in a log.

She and Gale later catch fish and pick some greens and strawberries, which she sells to the mayor.

Answer: Oil and grain

The grain and oil from the tesserae are used to bake bread, and Katniss describes the grain as dark and coarse. The more tesserae a child signs up for, the more times their name is entered. For instance, Katniss signs up for three tesserae (for herself, Prim and their mother), meaning that her name is entered three times every year.

The Career Districts (1, 2 and 4) sign up for fewer tesserae than the poorer ones such as 11 and 12. In 'Catching Fire', District 12 suffers major food shortages, many of the children do not receive their tesserae and Gale's brother Rory is forced to enter his name. Peeta Mellark and Madge Undersee are exceptions; Peeta because his family own a bakery, and Madge because she is the mayor's daughter.

Answer: She is angry with Effie Trinket's comments about previous tributes' manners.

Effie Trinket, who is in charge of the reaping for District 12 and also accompanies the District 12 tributes to the Hunger Games, takes them and Haymitch Abernathy (their mentor and a former tribute) to the Capitol on a special train. The meal consists of carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potato, fruit, cheese and chocolate cake, and both Katniss and Peeta are unaccustomed to such rich food. Effie comments that at least Katniss and Peeta have good manners, and calls the previous tributes 'savages' for eating with their hands. Katniss does actually know how to use cutlery, but she is so disgusted at Effie sneering at two children who were obviously starving that she makes a point of eating the food with her hands and wiping them on the tablecloth.

Answer: True

Katniss first met Peeta when she was starving and he gave her burned raisin and nut bread which would have been thrown out otherwise. When Haymitch asks Peeta what useful abilities he has, Katniss points out that he is immensely strong as a result of carrying massive sacks of flour around and is also a decent wrestler, though Peeta doesn't believe this will help him.

When he and Katniss take a camouflage class, he turns out to be excellent at camouflage and reveals that he learned how to paint from decorating fancy cakes.

Although Katniss is cynical as to how useful this is, this skill later comes in handy when Peeta is injured and avoids the Career tributes by disguising himself as a rock. However, he also causes controversy among the judges in 'Catching Fire' when he draws a picture of Rue on the floor.

Answer: An apple in the mouth of a roast pig

Each tribute has to show off their skills in front of the Gamemakers. Peeta throws weights and when it is Katniss' turn, she shoots a dummy through the heart, severs a rope holding a punchbag with an arrow, and ends by shooting a light. The Gamemakers seem more interested in their food, which irritates Katniss so much that she shoots an arrow into an apple in the mouth of a roast pig which has just been brought to the table. One Gamemaker, revealed to be Plutarch Heavensbee (the new Head Gamemaker and one of the masterminds behind the revolution), falls into a punch bowl. Katniss is terrified that she will be punished for this but instead, she gets a score of 11 - which is not a good thing as it makes her a walking target for the other tributes.

Answer: Nightlock

Nightlock berries are so poisonous that eating them will kill you instantly. Peeta gathers some by the stream in the arena and offers them to Katniss, but she recognises them and refuses. The female tribute from District 5, who Katniss dubs 'Foxface', is killed by the berries and Katniss reckons that she followed Peeta to the stream after stealing their cheese, saw him picking the berries and ate them (some fan theories state that she knew they were poisonous and did it deliberately as she knew she wouldn't survive to the end). Katniss and Peeta get declared joint victors after they threaten to kill themselves by eating the berries, but have to face the wrath of President Snow in 'Catching Fire', who has them on a very short leash.

In the film of 'The Hunger Games', Seneca Crane - the Head Gamemaker in 'The Hunger Games' - is punished for this by being locked in a room with a bowl of nightlock berries, the implication being that he was forced into eating them.

In 'Mockingjay', 'nightlock' is also the password for the Holo, a portable computer which Katniss' group carry with them. If someone says 'nightlock' three times, the Holo turns into a bomb, and Katniss later has to use it to blow up some lizard muttations who are killing Finnick in the sewers.

Answer: White crackers (District 3)

The white cracker is a reference to a cracker with the mockingjay symbol baked into it, which Bonnie and Twill - a couple of refugees from District 8 - give to Katniss to show that they are on her side, and they later tell her about the uprising in District 8 and how both of them were forced to escape after the Capitol blew up the local textile factory and killed their families. The mockingjay has become the symbol of revolution.

District 3's bread rolls are actually small and square, and of major importance in 'Catching Fire' when they are parachuted into the arena for the Quarter Quell. Finnick makes a point of counting the rolls, which puzzles Katniss until she later realises that they were a message. The District of the rolls represented the day on which the rescue of the tributes was to take place; the number of rolls (twenty-four) the hour. The tributes from Districts 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 11 were all aware of the plan to escape the arena, and Beetee, one of the District 3 tributes, is given a wire and the task of blowing a hole in the electric barrier.

Answer: Lamb stew with plums

Katniss first tries the lamb stew at the training centre in the Capitol, and it appears throughout the series. When Caesar Flickerman asks Katniss what impresses her most about the Capitol, she says, "The lamb stew." Luckily, both Caesar and the audience see the funny side of it. Later, when she and Peeta are in the arena, she receives a basket of goodies which includes fresh bread, goat's cheese, apples and a tureen of the stew.

Answer: Small birds filled with orange sauce

Other dishes mentioned include creamy pumpkin soup with nuts and seeds, raspberry soup, whole roasted cows and goats. Katniss decides to take a bite of everything at the feast so as not to miss out. She and Peeta are horrified when the prep team offer them a liquid that will make them vomit up their food so that they can eat more (which several of the Capitol guests have been doing).

The orange birds later appear at a meal on the train to the games, along with cold vegetable soup, fish cakes with lime paste, and chocolate custard with cherries.

Some fans have tried to replicate this dish with smaller birds such as quail.

Answer: Finnick and Annie

Finnick and Annie's wedding is being filmed for a 'propo', or propaganda film, and everyone in District 13 attends. In District 4 tradition, the happy couple make their vows under a woven net, touch each other's lips with salt water and sing a song that compares marriage to a sea voyage.

At the reception, Katniss notices that their wedding cake is elaborately decorated with sugar flowers, boats, seals and colourful waves, and realises that Peeta must have done it. Haymitch confirms this and tells her that working on the cake was like therapy for Peeta, although he had to do it under strict supervision and still had the odd relapse into madness.