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A food trivia board for dinner parties, staff socials and family game nights. No tasting, cooking equipment or knowledge of a particular restaurant chain is required.
- This original board has five categories with five clues each, worth 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 points. Suggested values move from accessible recall to a more specific fact or a reasoning step.
- The questions and answers are free to read here. Quiz Champ is an independent game maker, not affiliated with or endorsed by the television show.
Host the food quiz around conversation
Use Name the ingredient, Kitchen verbs, Baking words, Around the table, and Recipe math as your categories. The answers are about food knowledge, not anyone's diet or cooking ability.
- Allow ten minutes before guests arrive to read the answer notes and check pronunciation. Entering the digital board takes additional preparation time.
- For a short dinner break, use the 100- and 200-point clues in all five categories. Add the harder clues if the group wants another round.
- Read the exact wording for recipe calculations, especially servings, grams and milliliters. Do not make dietary restrictions part of the scoring.
Name the ingredient
Identify the ingredient, not a brand. Accept familiar regional names where noted.
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100 points. Traditional hummus is usually built around this pulse, also called the garbanzo bean.
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Chickpea
Accept chickpeas or garbanzo beans. The clue specifies traditional hummus, not every dip sold under the name.
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200 points. This fruit supplies the main creamy base in guacamole.
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Avocado
Accept avocado; lime adds flavor but is not the main base.
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300 points. Tahini is a paste made from these small seeds.
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Sesame seeds
Accept sesame.
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400 points. Natural vanilla flavoring commonly comes from cured pods of a plant in this flower family.
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Orchids
Vanilla is an orchid. The clue concerns natural pods rather than synthetic vanillin.
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500 points. Saffron spice is collected from these red parts of the saffron crocus flower.
Kitchen verbs
These clues describe the action so players can reason from the wording.
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100 points. To remove the outer skin of a banana or potato is to do this.
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Peel
Accept peeling.
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200 points. To cut food into small cubes is to do this.
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Dice
Chop is broader; the cube shape makes dice the intended answer.
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300 points. To cook a liquid gently with small bubbles below a rolling boil is to do this.
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Simmer
Accept simmering. A full rolling boil is a different instruction.
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400 points. To pour liquid through a sieve so solids remain behind is to do this.
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Strain
Accept straining. Sifting normally refers to dry ingredients.
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500 points. To scrape browned bits from a pan into an added liquid is to do this.
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Deglaze
Accept deglazing; the browned bits, rather than just draining liquid, define the action.
Baking words
Use the meaning in bread baking. The host notes resolve common close answers.
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100 points. This is the firm outer surface of a baked loaf.
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Crust
The crumb is inside; the crust is outside.
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200 points. Bakers use this word for the texture and structure inside a loaf.
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Crumb
Accept crumb, which is different from a loose breadcrumb.
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300 points. In bread baking, this word names the final rise of shaped dough before it goes into the oven.
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400 points. A baker makes deliberate cuts in a loaf's surface before baking. This action is called this.
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500 points. This French word names a round, ball-shaped loaf.
Around the table
The dish descriptions identify a common preparation, without claiming every household uses one recipe.
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100 points. This Japanese dish pairs vinegared rice with ingredients that can include vegetables, cooked seafood or raw fish.
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Sushi
Raw fish alone is not the defining feature; the vinegared rice matters.
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200 points. This Spanish rice dish takes its name from the wide, shallow pan in which it is cooked.
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Paella
Accept paella. Ingredients vary, so seafood is not required by the clue.
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300 points. These small Italian dumplings are often made with potato, although other versions exist.
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Gnocchi
Accept gnocchi; the clue allows recipes that use other ingredients.
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400 points. This Korean dish commonly uses salted and fermented vegetables, often cabbage or radish.
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Kimchi
Accept kimchi. Do not require cabbage in every recipe.
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500 points. This Middle Eastern spice blend commonly combines a thyme-like herb, sesame and sumac; it shares its name with an herb.
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Za'atar
Accept zaatar or za'atar. Recipes differ, and the clue describes the blend.
Recipe math
All quantities are supplied. Require the unit as well as the number when it affects the answer.
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100 points. One batch makes six muffins. This many muffins come from three identical batches.
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18 muffins
6 × 3 = 18.
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200 points. A recipe uses 400 grams of flour. A half batch needs this amount.
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200 grams
400 ÷ 2 = 200.
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300 points. A jug holds 1.2 liters of soup. This is the number of 300-milliliter portions it contains.
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Four
1.2 liters = 1,200 milliliters; 1,200 ÷ 300 = 4.
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400 points. A recipe serves four and uses 150 grams of rice. Scaling it exactly to six servings requires this amount.
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225 grams
150 × 6 ÷ 4 = 225 grams.
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500 points. A baker mixes flour and water in a 5:3 ratio by mass. An 800-gram mixture contains this much flour.
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500 grams
There are eight parts total; 800 ÷ 8 = 100 grams per part. Five parts weigh 500 grams.
Copy the board into Quiz Champ
Open the creator, choose Standard format, and manually enter each category, clue, accepted answer and judging explanation. The button opens the builder; it does not import this article or load a ready-made version of this board.
- Prepare all 25 clues before the event. Use the preview to check the text and answer for every tile. Saving or hosting requires an account; check the current plan and room limits before inviting players.
- Keep the host screen and answer notes private. Share only the player display.
- In Spoken Classic, a participant must buzz through Quiz Champ before answering aloud. In typed mode, the first buzzer submits the answer in the game. An external chat message does not register a response.
- After a registered response, reveal and judge. The current host dashboard adds the tile value for Correct and adds zero for Incorrect. Announce any manually tracked house rules before play.