Strawberry Trivia
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93 free Strawberry trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
57 free strawberry trivia questions with answers. Strawberries are the most familiar fruit that almost nobody knows anything about. This strawberry trivia quiz has 93 questions covering the science (why it is not a berry, what the seeds really are, why the plants have eight sets of chromosomes), the surprising history (a French spy, two American parent species and a field in Brittany), and everything the fruit has lent its name to: Wimbledon's signature snack, the Beatles' Strawberry Fields, Strawberry Shortcake, the Strawberry Moon, a poison frog, a Bosch painting, Madrid's coat of arms and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries. The early questions suit a family game, a strawberry festival stall or a classroom, and the later ones will stretch a pub quiz team: Belgium's strawberry capital, the pastry chef who invented the fraisier, the colonial governor who served the first strawberry ice cream. It works just as well as a June round, a food quiz or a summer party filler. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and primary sources, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Botanically speaking, which of these is a strawberry?
An accessory fruit
An accessory fruit: the red flesh swells from the flower's receptacle rather than its ovary, so botanists do not count the strawberry as a berry at all.
Q 02The tiny specks dotting the outside of a strawberry are actually what?
Achenes, each holding a seed
Achenes, each holding a seed: every speck is a complete dry fruit in its own right, so the juicy red part is not the plant's true fruit but a swollen flower base carrying them.
Q 03Strawberries belong to which group of plants?
The rose family
The rose family: Rosaceae also takes in apples, cherries and almonds, and the kinship shows in the strawberry's five-petalled blossom, which looks like a miniature wild rose.
Q 04Amédée-François Frézier, who brought the Chilean strawberry to Europe in 1714, had been sent to South America as what?
Spy
Spy: Frézier, a French army engineer, posed as a merchant to map Spanish fortifications on the Chilean coast, and sailed home in 1714 with five strawberry plants.
Q 05The scientific name of the garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, refers to which other fruit?
Pineapple
Pineapple: eighteenth-century growers called the hybrid the 'pine strawberry' for its flavour, and the epithet ananassa comes from ananas, the word for pineapple.
Q 06As of 2024, which country grows the most strawberries, more than a third of the world's crop?
China
China: it harvested more than a third of the world's strawberries in 2024, even though the garden strawberry is an 18th-century European hybrid of two American species.
Q 07Raw strawberries are about 91 percent moisture, matching which fruit?
Watermelon
Watermelon: both are about 91 percent water, which is why 100 grams of either holds only around 30 calories, while a banana, at 75 percent water, has nearly three times as many.
Q 08A 100-gram serving of strawberries provides about 65 percent of the daily value of which nutrient?
Vitamin C
Vitamin C: 100 grams of strawberries hold about 59 milligrams, slightly more than an orange; manganese is the only other nutrient present in a significant amount.
Q 09Strawberries and blueberries get their colour from which pigment family?
Anthocyanins
Anthocyanins: these pigments can look red, purple or blue depending on acidity and also colour red cabbage; the strawberry's main one is pelargonidin-3-glucoside.
Q 10Which kind of strawberry cultivar may suit people with a strawberry allergy?
White-fruited ones
White-fruited ones: the suspected allergen, Fra a 1, is tied to the pathway that makes the red pigment, and a white mutant strawberry was found virtually free of it and tolerated by allergic people.
Q 11Strawberries and cream is the signature snack of which sporting event?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon: fans eat tens of tonnes of strawberries there each summer, yet the pairing with cream is far older than lawn tennis, said to go back to feasts at Henry VIII's court.
Q 12Strawberries and cream is said to date to a visit Henry VIII paid to which of his officials?
Cardinal Wolsey
Cardinal Wolsey: his cook at Hampton Court is rumoured to have served the king wild strawberries with cream, and once Henry had eaten the dish it caught on at court.
Q 13The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' was named after what kind of place in Liverpool?
A Salvation Army children's home
Q 21The Florida Strawberry Festival was conceived in 1930 by which local group?
The Lions Club
The Plant City Lions Club launched the Florida Strawberry Festival in 1930 to celebrate the harvest; it was suspended during World War II and revived in 1948.
Q 22The town of Ponchatoula has honoured its strawberry farmers with a Strawberry Festival each April since 1972 in which state?
Louisiana
Louisiana: the Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees started Ponchatoula's festival with a $500 budget, and the first one in 1972 filled a single block with just 11 booths.
Q 23Which family-owned berry company breeds its own strawberry varieties and lets only approved growers plant them?
Driscoll's
Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in Woolton; John Lennon played in its garden as a boy, and its red gates on Beaconsfield Road became a fan pilgrimage site.
Q 14'Strawberry Fields Forever' was released in 1967 as a double A-side with which other Beatles song?
Penny Lane
Penny Lane: the February 1967 double A-side stalled at number 2 behind Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Release Me', ending the band's four-year run of chart-topping singles.
Q 15The Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon in Central Park has a mosaic bearing which single word?
Imagine
The black-and-white mosaic reads 'Imagine', after Lennon's 1971 song; it sits near West 72nd Street, across from the Dakota where he lived and was shot in 1980.
Q 16Strawberry Shortcake began as a 1977 greeting-card drawing, as did which later toy line from the same card company?
Care Bears
Care Bears: American Greetings put them on cards in 1981, four years after Strawberry Shortcake, repeating its trick of turning a card character into a toy and cartoon franchise.
Q 17What was special about the hair of the original 1979 Strawberry Shortcake dolls?
It was scented
It was scented: every doll in the line had hair perfumed to match her name, so Strawberry Shortcake smelled of strawberries and friends such as Huckleberry Pie of their own treats.
Q 18Which toy company released the first Strawberry Shortcake doll in 1979?
Kenner
Kenner, the Cincinnati company behind the first Star Wars action figures, licensed the character in 1979 and kept adding dolls until her popularity faded in the mid-1980s.
Q 19What is the name of Strawberry Shortcake's arch-enemy in the classic cartoons?
The Purple Pieman
The Purple Pieman, voiced by Robert Ridgely, plagued Strawberryland in all six 1980s TV specials; Ridgely kept the role even when production moved to Canada and most of the cast changed.
Q 20Which town in Florida calls itself the winter strawberry capital of the world?
Plant City
Plant City, east of Tampa, is named not for its crops but for railroad builder Henry B. Plant, whose line put the farm town on the map; its strawberry festival dates from 1930.
Driscoll's: the Watsonville firm also introduced the clear plastic clamshell in the 1990s, the hinged pack that changed how berries and other produce are sold.
Q 24Which state grows roughly nine in ten of America's strawberries?
California
California: it produces about 90 percent of the national crop, with Florida a distant second, although Florida grows most of the domestic winter crop.
Q 25The 'Strawberry Moon' is the full moon of which month in the Farmers' Almanac tradition?
June
June: Algonquian peoples of the north-eastern United States, and the Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota, used the name to mark the weeks when wild strawberries ripened and were ready to gather.
Q 26What was Deana Carter's 1996 debut single, a country number one about a first love on a grandparents' farm?
Strawberry Wine
'Strawberry Wine' drew on co-writer Matraca Berg's own teenage summers at her grandparents' Wisconsin dairy farm, and it won the CMA's Song of the Year award in 1997.
Q 27Who produced the Brothers Johnson's 1977 hit cover of 'Strawberry Letter 23'?
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones produced it for the album Right on Time; the cover of Shuggie Otis's 1971 original reached the US top five, and its single came on red vinyl that smelled of strawberries.
Q 28The 1960s band Strawberry Alarm Clock is best remembered for which psychedelic hit?
Incense and Peppermints
'Incense and Peppermints' topped the Hot 100 in November 1967, yet its lead vocal came from Greg Munford, a 16-year-old friend from another band who happened to be at the session.
Q 29The Swedish title of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Smultronstället, idiomatically means what?
A hidden gem of a place
A hidden gem of a place: literally 'the wild strawberry patch', the word is used for a little-known spot of personal, sentimental value, like the childhood strawberry patch the film's old professor recalls.
Q 30The 1941 comedy The Strawberry Blonde cast which gangster-film star as a dentist opposite Olivia de Havilland?
James Cagney
James Cagney played dentist Biff Grimes; the strawberry blonde herself was Rita Hayworth, cast only after Ann Sheridan refused the part during a contract dispute with the studio.