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50 free Burger King trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Burger King trivia questions with answers. Burger King trivia for anyone who has ever had it their way. This quiz covers the whole story of the chain: the Insta-Burger King stand that opened in Jacksonville in 1953, the two Miami franchisees who rescued it, the 37-cent Whopper invented after a Gainesville rival started selling bigger burgers, and the long parade of owners from Pillsbury to 3G Capital and Restaurant Brands International. It also digs into the advertising — the Have It Your Way jingle, the creepy King, the Subservient Chicken, the Whopper Sacrifice and the Moldy Whopper — plus menu history like the accidental Whopper Jr., Chicken Fries and the Impossible Whopper, and the trademark fight that made Australia call the chain Hungry Jack's. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer was verified against encyclopaedic and corporate sources before it went in.
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Q 01The chain was founded on July 23, 1953, under what name?
Insta-Burger King
The original chain was based in Jacksonville, Florida, and built around a cooker called the Insta-Broiler.
Q 02Which two Miami franchisees bought the struggling company in 1959?
James McLamore and David Edgerton
They ran it independently for eight years, growing to over 250 US locations before selling to Pillsbury.
Q 03Insta-Burger King's founders were inspired by whose original San Bernardino restaurant?
The McDonald brothers'
Keith Cramer and Matthew Burns bought the rights to two "Insta-machines" and built their stores around them.
Q 04What was wrong with the original Insta-Broiler that led the new owners to replace it?
Its heating elements degraded from beef drippings
The replacement flame broiler became a Burger King hallmark and the basis of decades of "flame-grilled" advertising.
Q 05In what year did the Whopper join the menu as its first major addition?
1957
It quickly became the chain's signature product and the basis of the "Home of the Whopper" tagline.
Q 06How much did the Whopper originally sell for?
37 cents
Co-founder James McLamore created it after seeing a rival restaurant succeed with a bigger burger.
Q 07The Whopper was invented in response to a large-burger rival in which Florida city?
Gainesville
One account jokes that the town, not Miami, is the real "home of the Whopper".
Q 08The Whopper Jr. was introduced in what year — reportedly by accident?
1963
A Puerto Rico franchisee improvised it when the proper Whopper buns failed to arrive.
Q 09Around 1970 the Whopper switched from a plain bun to what?
A sesame seed bun
In 1985 the patty grew to 4.2 oz and the bun briefly became a Kaiser roll.
Q 10In what year did the founders sell the chain to Pillsbury?
1967
The doughboy company tried repeatedly to restructure the chain through the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Q 11Which British conglomerate acquired Pillsbury — and Burger King with it — in 1989?
Grand Metropolitan
Its 1997 merger with Guinness created Diageo, which put the money-losing chain up for sale in 2000.
Q 12Which Brazilian investment firm bought a majority stake in Burger King in 2010 for about $3.26 billion?
3G Capital
The new owners quickly restructured the chain and later merged it with Tim Hortons.
Q 13Burger King's 2014 merger with which Canadian chain created Restaurant Brands International?
Tim Hortons
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway helped finance the $12.5 billion deal.
Q 21The Subservient Chicken site, where a man in a chicken suit obeyed commands, promoted which sandwich?
The TenderCrisp
It was built by The Barbarian Group for CP+B and tied into the "Have it Your Way" campaign.
Q 22Burger King's failed $40 million 1985 campaign asked customers to find whom?
Herb
The mystery man who had supposedly never eaten a Whopper failed to boost sales.
Q 23The 2009 "Whopper Sacrifice" promotion offered a free burger for doing what?
Deleting ten Facebook friends
Facebook shut down the app after a week for violating its privacy policy.
Q 14Which chicken chain did Restaurant Brands International add to its portfolio in 2017?
Popeyes
Firehouse Subs followed in 2021, giving the parent company five main segments.
Q 15Where is Burger King's corporate headquarters?
Miami-Dade County, Florida
The parent company sits in Toronto with a coffee chain, but BK stayed put in Florida.
Q 16Burger King trades under a different name in Australia due to a trademark clash with a restaurant in which city?
Adelaide
A local takeaway owner already held the Burger King trademark, so a name from Pillsbury's pancake-mix range was borrowed instead.
Q 17The Hungry Jack's name was borrowed from a Pillsbury brand of what?
Pancake mix
Franchisee Jack Cowin picked it from a list of Pillsbury trademarks and added an apostrophe and "s".
Q 18Burger King's first Australian restaurant opened in 1971 in a suburb of which city?
Perth
The Innaloo store came two years after the chain's first Canadian outlet in Windsor, Ontario.
Q 19Burger King's first European restaurant opened in 1975 in which city?
Madrid
By the end of 2018 the chain reported nearly 18,000 outlets in 100 countries.
Q 20Which advertising agency, hired in 2003, revived the King as a silent, masked mascot?
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
The Miami agency was known for a hip, subversive style; the King was retired as primary mascot in 2011 after 3G took over.
Q 24The 2020 "Moldy Whopper" ad showed a burger rotting over how many days?
34
It was meant to prove the chain had dropped artificial preservatives, and drew 50 percent more awareness than its 2019 Super Bowl ad.
Q 25The Impossible Whopper's plant-based patty is made by a company based in which city?
Oakland, California
Test marketing began around St. Louis in April 2019 before the national rollout.
Q 26Which country's Burger King dropped the beef Whopper for mutton, veggie and chicken versions?
India
The change accommodated cultural taboos around beef when the chain entered the market.
Q 27The Windows 7 Whopper, a seven-patty promotional burger, was sold in which country?
Japan
It promoted Microsoft's operating system launch; the Angry Whopper, by contrast, adds jalapeños and "Angry Sauce".
Q 28Burger King's Original Chicken Sandwich arrived in 1979 as part of an overhaul with what name?
Operation Phoenix
CEO Donald Smith's programme also gave the chain its first breakfast menu.
Q 29Which breakfast item did Burger King add in 1983?
The Croissan'Wich
Until a 1985–86 revamp the rest of the breakfast menu was almost identical to McDonald's.
Q 30BK Chicken Tenders debuted in 1985 to answer which McDonald's product?
McNuggets
Fish Tenders followed in 1989 to complement them.