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49 free Chick-fil-A trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free Chick-fil-A trivia questions with answers. Chick-fil-A is the fast-food chain that sells more per restaurant than any other in America while staying shut one day a week. This quiz covers how it got there: Truett Cathy's tiny 1946 diner near an Atlanta car plant, the pressure fryer that made a chicken sandwich as fast as a burger, the 1967 mall food-court opening, and the cows that have been misspelling 'chicken' on billboards since 1995. Easy questions cover the day the doors stay closed, the pickles on the sandwich and the oil the chicken is cooked in. Harder ones dig into which breakfast chain once sold the sandwich under licence, where the signature sauce was really invented, the ad agency behind the cows, the Peach Bowl's origins and the company's short-lived restaurants in South Africa and England. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia or the company's own pages, and the citation sits under each question, so you can settle a drive-through argument on the spot. Good for road trips, office trivia and anyone who has ever answered 'thank you' with 'my pleasure'.
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Q 01Truett Cathy's first restaurant, the 1946 Dwarf Grill, took its name from what?
Its small size
The Dwarf Grill was named for its small size: the original 1946 diner had just ten stools and four tables. It later became the Dwarf House, and a few Dwarf House restaurants survive around metro Atlanta.
Q 02In which Atlanta suburb did Truett Cathy open his first restaurant in 1946?
Hapeville
Hapeville, beside Hartsfield-Jackson airport, was home to the 1946 Dwarf Grill, which drew much of its trade from the Ford assembly plant across the road.
Q 03The first restaurant under the chain's own name opened in an Atlanta mall food court in which year?
1967
The first restaurant under the Chick-fil-A name opened in 1967 in an Atlanta mall food court; until then the sandwich had been licensed to other eateries, and those deals ended once the company had its own store.
Q 04The chain's first dedicated restaurant opened in the food court of which Atlanta mall?
Greenbriar
Greenbriar Mall's food court housed the first Chick-fil-A restaurant; the store outlived the founder and closed in May 2023.
Q 05What is the capital 'A' at the end of the company name meant to signify?
Grade A top-quality chicken
The capital A stands for Grade A top-quality chicken; the 'fil' part plays on how Americans say 'filet', so the whole name is a boast about a top-grade chicken fillet.
Q 06What did Truett Cathy find in 1961 that cooked a chicken fillet as fast as a hamburger?
A pressure fryer
In 1961 Cathy found a pressure fryer that cooked a boneless chicken breast as fast as a hamburger patty, and he registered the Chick-fil-A name soon afterwards.
Q 07Between 1964 and 1967 the sandwich was licensed to over fifty other eateries, including which breakfast chain?
Waffle House
Waffle House, the Georgia-born breakfast chain, sold the sandwich under licence, as did concession stands at the brand-new Houston Astrodome, before the company pulled every outside licence to open its own restaurants.
Q 08The chain's first freestanding restaurant, on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, opened in which year?
1986
The first freestanding Chick-fil-A opened in 1986 on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta; for its first two decades the company had been almost entirely a mall food-court operation.
Q 09The company is headquartered in which Georgia city?
College Park
Chick-fil-A's headquarters, which the company calls the Support Center, sits on Buffington Road in College Park, just south of Atlanta near the airport.
Q 10On which day of the week is every restaurant in the chain closed?
Sunday
Every Chick-fil-A closes on Sunday, a rule Truett Cathy set at his first diner in 1946 after years of working seven days a week in 24-hour restaurants.
Q 11Which advertising agency created the cows' 'Eat Mor Chikin' campaign?
The Richards Group
The Richards Group of Dallas created the 'Eat Mor Chikin' cows and kept the account for about two decades before the chain moved its advertising in 2016.
Q 12The cows first painted 'Eat Mor Chikin' on an Atlanta billboard in which year?
1995
The first 'Eat Mor Chikin' billboard went up in Atlanta in 1995: a three-dimensional sign with one cow standing on another's back to paint the message.
Q 13What breed of dairy cow stars in the chain's advertising?
Holstein
The cows are black-and-white Holsteins, the classic dairy breed; on billboards and water towers they argue that people should eat chicken instead of them.
Q 21The chain's waffle-cut potato fries were first rolled out in which year?
1985
Waffle Potato Fries joined the menu in 1985, nearly two decades after the chain's first restaurant opened, and became its signature side.
Q 22As of 2018, what was the single most-ordered item on the menu?
Waffle fries
Waffle fries topped the chain's 2018 ranking of its most-ordered items; soft drinks came second and nuggets third, pushing the Original Chicken Sandwich down to fourth.
Q 23When nuggets debuted in 1982, they were sold as a box of how many pieces?
6
They were born because customers kept asking Operators to cut the sandwich chicken into bite-sized pieces.
Q 14Which earlier chicken mascot hides in the logo's letter C?
Doodles
Doodles, the company's chicken mascot from the 1960s, was worked into the logo: the flourish on top of the C is the bird's comb.
Q 15Why was the cow campaign temporarily halted on January 1, 2004?
A mad cow disease scare
The company did not want its cows to look as if they were cashing in on a food-safety panic; the ads returned a few months later.
Q 16After 22 years with the agency that invented the cows, the chain moved its advertising in 2016 to which agency?
McCann New York
McCann New York won the account in 2016 after the previous agency's 22-year run and kept the cows at the centre of the campaign.
Q 17The chain's flagship Original sandwich is cooked in 100 percent refined what?
Peanut oil
Refined peanut oil is used for the chicken; refining removes the proteins that trigger most peanut allergies, which is why the company says the oil is safe for many allergy sufferers.
Q 18What garnish comes on the Original sandwich as standard?
Two dill pickle slices
Lettuce, tomato and cheese are add-ons for the deluxe version; the pickles are the only thing between the chicken and the buttered bun.
Q 19Truett Cathy famously claimed to have invented which menu staple in 1964?
The chicken sandwich
Cathy said he invented the chicken sandwich in 1964, a boneless breast on a buttered bun, and the company trademarked 'We Didn't Invent the Chicken, Just the Chicken Sandwich', though chicken sandwiches existed earlier.
Q 20The chain's waffle-cut potato fries are cooked in which oil?
Canola
Chick-fil-A's waffle-cut fries are cooked in canola oil, not the oil used for the chicken, and are finished with a sprinkle of sea salt.
Q 24Which of these dipping sauces was among the original trio introduced in 1984?
Polynesian
Polynesian, a sweet-and-sour sauce, arrived in 1984 alongside Honey Mustard and Barbeque as the chain's first three dipping sauces.
Q 25The chain's signature namesake dip, Chick-fil-A Sauce, joined the menu in which year?
2006
Its smoky, tangy mustard flavour has been read as a mash-up of honey mustard and barbecue, and bottles reached supermarket shelves nationwide in 2021.
Q 26The chain's signature namesake sauce was invented in 1983 at a restaurant in which state?
Virginia
Operator Hugh Fleming mixed up the sauce in 1983 at his Fredericksburg, Virginia restaurant; a sign at the Spotsylvania Towne Centre location claims the honour.
Q 27Which dip did customers order more than any other in 2024?
Chick-fil-A Sauce
Chick-fil-A Sauce topped the chain's 2024 ranking of its dipping sauces, with Sweet & Spicy Sriracha finishing last of the seven.
Q 28In February 2023 the chain began testing its first meat-free sandwich, built around which vegetable?
Cauliflower
A whole cauliflower floret, marinated, breaded and cooked like the chicken, was tested from February 2023 in Denver, Charleston and Greensboro as the chain's first plant-forward sandwich.
Q 29The chain has sponsored Atlanta's Peach Bowl college football game since which year?
1997
Chick-fil-A became the Peach Bowl's title sponsor in 1997; the game dates to 1968 and joined the College Football Playoff's New Year's Six in 2014.
Q 30From 2006 to 2013 the Atlanta bowl game Chick-fil-A sponsors dropped 'Peach' and was officially called what?
Chick-fil-A Bowl
The peach came back in 2014, the same year the game joined the College Football Playoff rotation.