Burger King Trivia
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48 free Burger King trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 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 01Burger King was founded in Jacksonville in 1953 under what name?
Insta-Burger King
Insta-Burger King built every store around an oven called the Insta-Broiler; when the Jacksonville company ran into financial trouble, two of its franchisees bought it in 1959 and dropped the 'Insta'.
Q 02Which two franchisees bought the struggling Burger King chain in 1959 and rebuilt it?
James McLamore and David Edgerton
James McLamore and David Edgerton renamed the company, replaced its troublesome ovens with a flame broiler of their own design, and had grown it to 274 US restaurants by the time they sold it in 1967.
Q 03Burger King's founders were inspired by whose original restaurant in San Bernardino, California?
The McDonald brothers'
The McDonald brothers' stand prompted Keith Cramer and Matthew Burns to buy the rights to two cooking machines and build their own burger stores around them.
Q 04Burger King's first broiler oven was replaced in the 1950s because what kept degrading its heating elements?
Beef drippings
Beef drippings fell on the heating elements and wore them out, so the new owners designed a gas flame broiler that carried patties over the burners on a moving chain and left grill marks on the meat.
Q 05The Whopper was created in 1957 after a rival restaurant thrived on what?
Bigger burgers
Bigger burgers at a busy rival convinced a Burger King co-founder that size was the draw, so he devised a larger sandwich of his own, priced it at 37 cents and gave it a name meant to sound big.
Q 06Burger King's 1998 April Fools' hoax was a Whopper with condiments rotated for whom?
Left-handed people
Left-handed people would find the toppings no longer spilled out the right side, the advert claimed; next day the chain admitted the hoax and said thousands of customers had asked for the burger.
Q 07Burger King's 2015 Halloween Whopper, flavoured with A.1. steak sauce, came on a bun of what colour?
Black
Black buns marked the A.1. Halloween Whopper, and the chain followed it the next spring with the Angriest Whopper, which had hot sauce baked into a red bun.
Q 08The Whopper Jr. was born when a Puerto Rico restaurant opened without what?
Big buns
Big buns could not be baked because the moulds had reportedly not arrived, so Luis Arenas served the burger on ordinary small buns rather than delay opening day in 1963; the chain later adopted it worldwide.
Q 09Around 1970 the Whopper switched from a plain bun to what?
A sesame seed bun
A sesame seed bun gave the Whopper its familiar look; a 1985 makeover that enlarged the patty to 4.2 ounces, backed by a $30 million ad campaign, failed to bring in new business.
Q 10One Halloween, Burger King gave free Whoppers to customers dressed as what?
Clowns
Clowns got the free Whoppers on Halloween 2017 in a dig at McDonald's, whose mascot is the clown Ronald McDonald.
Q 11A 2017 Burger King TV ad ended with a line designed to make which gadget read out the Whopper's Wikipedia entry?
Google Home
Google Home speakers obediently read the page aloud until pranksters rewrote it, adding cyanide to the ingredients; the trigger was soon blocked, so the chain re-recorded the line to get round the block.
Q 12Which Brazilian investment firm bought Burger King in 2010 in a deal worth about $3.26 billion?
3G Capital
3G Capital, backed by Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, paid $24 a share and brought a fierce cost-cutting regime, right down to limits on colour copies, before buying Heinz with Warren Buffett in 2013.
Q 13Burger King's 2014 merger with which Canadian chain created Restaurant Brands International?
Tim Hortons
Q 21The Subservient Chicken site, where a costumed man obeyed commands, played on which slogan?
Have It Your Way
Have It Your Way, taken literally: visitors typed orders and the performer obeyed, and he was dressed as a chicken because the site was selling the new TenderCrisp chicken sandwich.
Q 22Burger King's failed $40 million 1985 campaign asked customers to find whom?
Herb
Herb was billed as the one American who had never eaten a Whopper; when he was finally unveiled as a bespectacled nerd at the 1986 Super Bowl the campaign fell flat, and the chain dropped its ad agency.
Q 23The 2009 "Whopper Sacrifice" promotion offered a free burger for doing what?
Deleting ten Facebook friends
Tim Hortons, Canada's coffee-and-doughnut chain, gave the combined company a Canadian home, a move its executives insisted was not about cutting taxes; Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway helped finance the deal.
Q 14Which chicken chain did Restaurant Brands International add to its portfolio in 2017?
Popeyes
Popeyes cost Restaurant Brands $1.8 billion in 2017; two years later its new chicken sandwich kept selling out, kicking off a sandwich war with rival fast-food chains.
Q 15Where is Burger King's corporate headquarters?
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami-Dade County, Florida, is where two local franchisees built the chain in the 1950s, and its offices have stayed there even though the parent company, Restaurant Brands International, is based in Toronto.
Q 16Burger King trades as Hungry Jack's in which country, where the Burger King name was already registered?
Australia
Australia already had a registered Burger King trademark, so franchisee Jack Cowin had to pick another name from those the parent company owned when he opened his first restaurant in 1971.
Q 17The Hungry Jack's name was borrowed from a Pillsbury brand of what?
Pancake mix
Pancake mix sold in America as Hungry Jack supplied the name: franchisee Jack Cowin picked it from the trademarks Pillsbury already owned and added an apostrophe and an s.
Q 18In 2006 Burger King sold three budget video games starring its King mascot for which family of consoles?
Xbox
Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles both ran the discs, sold for $3.99 with a value meal; more than three million copies were sold, enough for the chain's agency to rank them among the ten best-selling games of 2006.
Q 19Burger King's 2019 Super Bowl commercial was 45 seconds of old film showing which artist quietly eating a Whopper?
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol unwraps the burger, fights a ketchup bottle and eats almost in silence; the full four-and-a-half-minute scene ends in a long pause because he was waiting for a cue to speak.
Q 20In the 2004 advert reviving Burger King's masked King, a man finds him where?
In his bed
In his bed is where the plastic-headed King turns up in the 'Wake Up with the King' advert, lying beside a startled man before handing him breakfast.
Deleting ten Facebook friends earned a coupon for a free burger, and each dropped friend was told they had been 'sacrificed'; Facebook switched the app off after ten days, by which time some 234,000 friendships had ended.
Q 24Which future TV star, then about four years old, fronted an early-1980s Burger King advert attacking McDonald's by name?
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar told viewers the chain's burgers were bigger and better than McDonald's, among the first fast-food adverts to name a rival; until then chains had made only vague allusions to competitors.
Q 25Which country's Burger King opened in 2014 with a mutton Whopper on the menu?
India
India's first Burger King opened in 2014 with no beef or pork anywhere on the menu, in deference to Hindu and Muslim customers, so the chain's signature burger had to be reinvented for it.
Q 26The 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 27Which breakfast item did Burger King add in 1983?
The Croissan'Wich
The Croissan'Wich gave Burger King its first breakfast hit: the chain had followed McDonald's into the morning trade with a menu much like its rival's, and the croissant sandwich finally set it apart.
Q 28Burger King's Chicken Tenders arrived in the mid-1980s as an answer to which McDonald's product?
McNuggets
McNuggets had a rival so popular that Burger King could not buy enough chicken to meet demand, and had to pull the $30 million advertising campaign launching its Chicken Tenders.
Q 29When Burger King tried evening table service in 1992, what free snack did diners get while they waited?
Popcorn
Popcorn kept diners busy from 4 to 8 p.m. while staff carried 'dinner baskets' of steak sandwiches, fried shrimp or chicken to the table, a bid for the evening trade that fast food had struggled to crack.
Q 30After buying Carrols, its biggest US franchisee, in 2024, Burger King's parent planned what for 600 restaurants?
A remodel and resale
A remodel and resale: the $1 billion deal let the parent company modernise about 600 Carrols restaurants within five years, then sell them back to smaller local operators.