16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What English cookbook from about 1390 includes the cheesecake-like sambocade?
Answer
Forme of Cury
Who created the Japanese spaghetti dish Naporitan at Yokohama's Hotel New Grand?
Answer
Shigetada Irie
Which 1964 film is widely credited with establishing the popularity of the Spaghetti Western?
Answer
A Fistful of Dollars
Who wrongly wrote in 1559 that Marco Polo brought pasta from China to Italy?
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Giovanni Battista Ramusio
Which 15th-century cook described making Sicilian macaroni as thin as string?
Answer
Martino da Como
Bomba rice can absorb how many times its volume in water without bursting?
Answer
two or three times
Which novelist described the Valencian custom of eating water voles in Cañas y barro?
Answer
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
In Filipino paelya, chorizo de Bilbao is described as a native what?
Answer
Filipino sausage
Which etymologist linked Catalan paella to Old French paelle?
Answer
Joan Coromines
Which Unicode version approved the shallow-pan emoji used for paella?
Answer
Unicode 9.0
What Unicode code point is assigned to SHALLOW PAN OF FOOD?
Answer
U+1F958
In Urasenke, what professional hereditary name does each new iemoto assume?
Answer
Sen Sōshitsu
Which Chinese green tea's name means 'green snail spring'?
Answer
Biluochun
In 1980, the first of hundreds of pho restaurants opened in which California area?
Answer
Orange County
Who edited the 1935 book Recipes of All Nations, an early English-language reference to pho?
Answer
Countess Morphy
What meatless subsidy-era pho was nicknamed after unmanned aircraft?
Answer
pilotless pho
Which child inspired the Big Boy name and mascot?
Answer
Richard Woodruff
Which restaurateur founded Fuddruckers in San Antonio?
Answer
Philip J. Romano
Who invented the ramen burger, using compressed ramen noodles instead of a bun?
Answer
Keizo Shimamoto
What was the name of Burger King's original burger-cooking oven?
Answer
Insta-Broiler
Which 1803 cookbook possibly first used the near-conventional spelling “dough nuts”?
Answer
The Frugal Housewife
Which Roman author recorded the fried dough ball recipe called globi?
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Cato the Elder
Which company is credited with inventing the spelling "donut" in the 1920s?
Answer
Display Doughnut Machine Corporation
Which 13th-century writer's Arabic cookbook contains a doughnut-like sfenj recipe?
Answer
Ibn Razin al-Tujibi
Which 1485 Nuremberg cookbook included Gefüllte Krapfen?
Answer
Küchenmeisterei
On what date was the Cronut introduced at Dominique Ansel Bakery?
Answer
May 10, 2013
What Austrian crescent-shaped biscuit is traditionally made with ground nuts?
Answer
Vanillekipferl
What Swiss spiced biscuit specialty originated in Basel?
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Basler Läckerli
What Italian biscuit’s name literally means “ugly but good”?
Answer
Brutti ma buoni
Spritzgebäck dough is shaped by squeezing it through what tool?
Answer
Cookie press
Nankhatai shortbread biscuits originated in which region?
Answer
Indian subcontinent