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60 free Snack trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Snacks are the food nobody plans and everybody eats, and almost every bag on the shelf has a strange origin story: Doritos were invented from stale tortillas at a Disneyland restaurant, Goldfish crackers were a Swiss baker's tribute to his Pisces wife, Twinkies were named after a shoe billboard, and pretzels may have started as a monk's reward for students. This snack trivia quiz covers chips and crisps, corn snacks, crackers, popcorn, pretzels, nuts, jerky and meat sticks, snack cakes and cookies, plus imports like Takis and Pocky, with the companies, inventors, mascots, dates and marketing stunts behind them. The 51 snack trivia questions run from easy (what shape is a Goldfish?) to hard (which Minnesota engineer invented Bugles?), so they suit a party round, a break-room competition or a food-themed pub quiz. Every answer has been checked against documented company histories and encyclopaedia records rather than copied from another trivia list, so you can trust the answer key.
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Q 01Doritos were first made from surplus tortillas at a restaurant inside which theme park?
Disneyland
The park's Mexican restaurant cut up, cooked and seasoned the leftovers; Frito-Lay marketing chief Arch West noticed and made a deal in 1964.
Q 02What was the first Doritos flavour when they launched nationally in 1966?
Toasted corn
Taco followed in 1967 and nacho cheese only arrived in 1972.
Q 03Cheetos were invented in 1948 by the creator of which other corn snack?
Fritos
Charles Elmer Doolin cooked test batches in his Dallas R&D kitchen, then partnered with potato-chip man Herman Lay to sell them.
Q 04Charles Doolin bought the recipe for his corn chips in 1932 from a Mexican soccer coach for how much?
$100
The deal included Gustavo Olguin's potato ricer and 19 retail accounts; the company began in the Doolin garage.
Q 05The Frito Company merged with H.W. Lay & Company to form Frito-Lay in which year?
1961
Four years later Frito-Lay merged with Pepsi-Cola to create PepsiCo.
Q 06Which company invented Pringles in 1968 and first sold them as 'Newfangled Potato Chips'?
Procter & Gamble
P&G sold the brand on in 2012; the snack is technically 'extruded' from a potato dough.
Q 07What shape is each Pringles chip formed into before frying?
A saddle
The hyperbolic-paraboloid curve is what lets them stack in the can.
Q 08Goldfish crackers were created in 1958 by a Swiss baker for his wife's star sign. Which sign?
Pisces
Company founder Margaret Rudkin tried them on holiday in Switzerland and brought them to the US in 1962.
Q 09Which US company makes Goldfish crackers?
Pepperidge Farm
The smiley face was only added in 1997, and appears on about 40% of the crackers.
Q 10Goldfish crackers went to space in 1988 aboard which shuttle?
Discovery
STS-26 was the return-to-flight mission after the Challenger disaster.
Q 11Ritz Crackers debuted in 1934 with a name chosen to offer Depression-era shoppers what?
A bite of the good life
Nabisco employee Sydney Stern also designed the blue-and-yellow logo, inspired by the label inside his hat.
Q 12How many perforations does an original Ritz cracker have?
Seven
The disc also has a finely scalloped edge; the brand now belongs to Mondelez.
Q 13Cracker Jack's slogan, registered in 1896, promises what?
The More You Eat, The More You Want
Food historian Andrew F. Smith has called it the first junk food.
Q 21The word 'jerky' comes from ch'arki, meaning dried salted meat, in which language?
Quechua
The Inca-era word travelled north with the meat-drying technique.
Q 22In Canada, where Chex cereal is not sold, the homemade party mix is known as what?
Nuts and bolts
The boxed Chex Party Mix recipe predates the commercial bagged version by 30 years.
Q 23Nabisco's animal crackers were branded in 1902 with the name of which circus?
Barnum's
The little box got a string handle that Christmas so it could hang on the tree.
Q 14In 2016 Frito-Lay replaced the toy prize in Cracker Jack boxes with what?
A QR code
The molasses-caramel popcorn-and-peanut mix has been owned by Frito-Lay since 1997.
Q 15The first Slim Jim was invented in 1929 in which city?
Philadelphia
Al Levis sold the company for about $20 million in 1967; Conagra owns it now.
Q 16Cheez-It crackers were introduced in 1921 by a company in which Ohio city?
Dayton
Green & Green marketed them as a 'baked rarebit', after the dish of melted cheese on toast.
Q 17What does the word 'frito' mean in Spanish?
Fried
'Dorito' comes from 'doradito', meaning little golden thing.
Q 18Lay's potato chips are sold under which brand name in the UK and Ireland?
Walkers
In Australia the same PepsiCo chips are sold as Smith's.
Q 19Ignacio 'Nacho' Anaya improvised nachos in 1943 in which Mexican border city?
Piedras Negras
He topped crisp tortilla triangles with Colby cheese and pickled jalapeños for a group of US officers' wives from Eagle Pass, Texas.
Q 20Rice Krispies Treats were invented in 1939 by two employees of the cereal's maker in which city?
Battle Creek
Malitta Jensen and Mildred Day created them as a promotion for the cereal; ready-made ones were not sold until 1995.
Q 24Graham crackers grew out of the preaching of Sylvester Graham, a figure in which 19th-century movement?
Temperance
His followers, the Grahamites, formed one of America's first vegetarian movements; Graham himself never profited from the crackers.
Q 25Funyuns were nearly called what, until it turned out the name was already trademarked?
OnYums
A University of North Texas professor came up with the replacement name in 1969.
Q 26Horn-shaped Bugles were launched nationally in 1966 by which company?
General Mills
Sibling snacks Daisys, Pizza Spins, Whistles, Buttons and Bows were all gone by the 1970s.
Q 27Takis rolled tortilla chips are made by Barcel, a subsidiary of which Mexican food giant?
Grupo Bimbo
They launched in Mexico in 1999 as 'Taquis'; the chili-lime flavour in the purple bag arrived in 2006.
Q 28Which flavour of Takis, sold in a purple bag, is the best seller?
Fuego
The chip's rolled shape is modelled on the taquito.
Q 29Pocky, the Japanese coated biscuit stick first sold in 1966, is made by which company?
Ezaki Glico
The name imitates 'pokkin', the Japanese sound of the stick snapping.
Q 30What was the original filling of the Twinkie when it was invented in 1930?
Banana cream
Baker James Dewar wanted to use shortcake machines that sat idle when strawberries were out of season.