Canadian Food Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which now-ubiquitous sushi roll, with the rice on the outside and a filling of crab or imitation crab, avocado and cucumber, is often credited to the chef Hidekazu Tojo in 1970s Vancouver?

Question 2

Which bottled juice, a blend of tomato and clam broth with spices, is essential to the Caesar cocktail and is consumed overwhelmingly in Canada rather than in its country of manufacture?

Question 3

Which Halifax invention of the 1970s, a Canadian take on the doner kebab with spiced ground beef and a sweet sauce of evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar and garlic, was named the official food of that city in 2015?

Question 4

Which Atlantic Canadian dish, ordered alongside a pizza and often dipped in donair sauce, is a round of pizza dough spread with garlic butter and cheese and cut into strips rather than wedges?

Question 5

Which cocktail of vodka, spiced clam-and-tomato juice, hot sauce and a celery-salt rim, invented in Calgary in 1969, is drunk in the hundreds of millions each year and treated as Canada's unofficial national cocktail?

Question 6

Which sweet, spicy, deep-fried dish of crispy battered beef strips was created at the Silver Inn restaurant in Calgary in the 1970s and is now a standard of Chinese-Canadian menus?

Question 7

Which chilli-sauce-topped hot dog, its name borrowed from a similar dog across the border in Plattsburgh, New York, is a specialty of the Gatineau area and the Ottawa Valley?

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About Canadian Food

How well do you know Canadian food -- the national comfort dishes, the specialties of Quebec, the Maritimes and Newfoundland, the Prairie and Indigenous traditions, and the brands, snacks and drinks Canadians grew up with? This quiz has sixty questions in three packs of twenty, written the way people search: what is poutine, what is a tourtiere, why is it called a Caesar, what is a donair, what is Kraft Dinner.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the origin, the place and the background.

The first pack covers the national and Quebec dishes: poutine and tourtiere, maple syrup and the sugar shack, pouding chomeur and sugar pie, cretons and pea soup, Montreal smoked meat and the Montreal bagel, the steamed hot dog and the Michigan, the Acadian poutine rapee and ployes and rappie pie, butter tarts and Nanaimo bars, saskatoon berry pie, BeaverTails and the Caesar. The second pack covers regional and Indigenous food: bannock and pemmican, the Newfoundland Jiggs' dinner, toutons, cod tongues, fish and brewis and Purity products, the Halifax donair and Solomon Gundy and garlic fingers, the lobster supper and PEI potatoes and Grand Manan dulse, Ukrainian Prairie cooking, Calgary's ginger beef, Alberta beef, the Winnipeg Fat Boy, and the Vancouver-born California roll and Japadog. The third pack covers brands and chains: Timbits and Kraft Dinner, ketchup and all-dressed chips, Hawkins Cheezies, Coffee Crisp and Smarties and the Caramilk secret, Ganong and its Chicken Bones, the President's Choice Decadent cookie, Canada Dry and Clamato, Canadian whisky and icewine, Swiss Chalet, peameal bacon, the chip wagon, maple syrup grades, the Molson Canadian rant, and Maple Leaf cream cookies.

About a sixth of the questions carry a photograph of a place or object tied to the question, chosen so it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.