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British Food Trivia

If you can tell your treacle from your tea and know an Earl from a sandwich, you're ready to conquer our British Food trivia—cheers, mate!

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

In a classic West Country cream tea, which fruit is used for the most traditional jam served with scones and clotted cream?

Strawberry

Which savory baked specialty, granted PGI status in 2011, is considered Cornwall’s national dish?

Cornish pasty

By the late 18th century, potatoes had become the staple food of which population living on small plots under British rule?

Irish tenant farmers

This nostalgic school-dinner pudding of suet dough and jam is rolled up like what kind of cake?

Swiss roll

In UK wedding lingo, the “wedding breakfast” refers to what post-ceremony event?

Wedding reception