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Indian Food Trivia Quiz
Pass The Achaar Biryani, dosa, butter chicken and every state's big dish, plus the wild stories of where they came from. Come hungry.
123 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Indian Food Trivia Quiz has 123 questions: 44 easy, 49 medium and 30 hard, including 16 picture questions. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 123 Indian food questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Which Indo-Chinese dish of crisp fried noodles under a sweet-and-sour sauce is named after a country that eats nothing like it?
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American chop suey
In the US, 'American chop suey' is a macaroni-and-mince bake in tomato sauce, nothing like India's version.
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In 2024 two Delhi restaurant families went to the High Court over a tagline claiming they invented which chicken curry?
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Butter chicken
Moti Mahal credits Kundan Lal Gujral; Daryaganj says its Kundan Lal Jaggi co-founded the first Moti Mahal. No ruling reported by late 2026.
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A 2020 tax ruling put frozen packs of which flaky, layered bread at 18% GST, against roti's 5%, and a 'Hands Off' hashtag trended?
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Parotta
Kerala's High Court said 5% in 2024, then put that on hold; in September 2025 GST 2.0 made it tax-free.
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In 2024 the council of Goa's Mapusa voted to ban it from temple-fair stalls, and weeks later Karnataka banned artificial colours in it. Name this Indo-Chinese dish.
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Gobi manchurian
Karnataka's tests found added colour in 107 of 171 samples; Goa blamed cheap sauces and synthetic dyes.
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Swiggy says Indians ordered about 194 plates of this dish every minute in 2025, its tenth straight year on top. What is it?
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Biryani
That's 93 million orders; burgers came a distant second with 44 million and pizzas third.
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Indian kitchens use this pungent resin by the pinch, yet India grew none of it until scientists planted the first seedlings in a Himachal valley in 2020. Name it.
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Hing
India had been importing about 1,200 tonnes a year from Iran and Afghanistan; each plant needs about five years to give resin.
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In 2001 Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook called which curry 'a true British national dish'?
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Chicken tikka masala
A Glasgow chef said he made it first in the 1970s, but Moti Mahal's owner says his grandfather served it in Delhi by 1947.
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England fans' 1998 World Cup anthem, a No. 2 hit, was named after which curry, whose name comes from a colonial Goan dish of meat in wine and garlic?
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Vindaloo
Blur's Alex James said it took 15 minutes to write; it was kept off No. 1 by 'Three Lions '98'.
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India's juicy sweet lime, the mosambi, takes its name from which country it came from with colonial traders?
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Mozambique
The Portuguese brought the South Asian strains from their colony there, and the name stuck in Hindi, Marathi and Bengali.
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Kerala's beloved kappa came from across the Atlantic and was pushed as famine food by a Travancore king in the late 1800s. What is kappa in English?
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Tapioca
King Ayilyam Thirunal okayed it on his botanist brother Visakham's advice; it fed Kerala again when WWII cut rice imports.
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India's 'Chinese' food traces back to Kolkata, where the first known Chinese settler arrived around 1780 to run a mill making what?
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Sugar
His name was Yong Atchew; fittingly, the Bengali word for sugar, 'chini', is linked to China.
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Short of yeast, Goa's colonial-era bakers fermented their dough with a palm drink. Which soft bread roll was born?
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Pav
Its name comes from Portuguese 'pão', bread; Mumbai later built whole meals around it.
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Bengal's chhena, the fresh cheese that's a cousin of paneer, is thought to owe its milk-splitting trick to which Europeans at their Bandel settlement?
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Portuguese
Before them, curdling milk was taboo for many Bengali Hindus, and sweets were made from khoa instead.
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In 2025 it was India's most-searched recipe on Google, and Swiggy delivered 11 million plates of it at breakfast. Name it.
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Idli
It beat veg dosa (9.6 million) as Swiggy's top breakfast, and on Google it even outranked the Pornstar Martini.
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Which soup, a hit with British officers in the Raj, takes its name from south Indian words for 'pepper water'?
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Mulligatawny
It began as south Indian rasam; the British wanted a soup course, so cooks added meat, lentils and coconut.
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In November 2025 TasteAtlas ranked the world's 100 best breads. Which flavoured version of a classic Indian flatbread came first?
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Butter garlic naan
Amritsari kulcha came second and parotta fifth; plain naan was seventh.
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In TasteAtlas's 2025/26 awards, which stuffed Punjabi flatbread was the best-ranked Indian dish, 17th in the world?
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Amritsari kulcha
India came 13th of 100 cuisines; the next Indian dish on the list was murgh makhani, at 66th.
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When Alaric's Goths besieged Rome in 408 AD, his ransom demand included silk, gold and 3,000 pounds of which spice from India's Malabar coast?
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Black pepper
Pepper was called 'black gold' and even used as money; for centuries Malabar was the world's only source of it.
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Bengal's 'queen of pickles' is a fermented mustard sauce so sharp it can make your eyes water like wasabi. Name it.
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Kasundi
Making it at home once came with so many rules and rituals that a whole generation of Bengali women gave up.
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In a famous Akbar-Birbal tale, Birbal hangs his cooking pot feet above a tiny fire to prove a far-off lamp couldn't warm a man. What's he 'cooking'?
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Khichdi
Akbar had refused a poor man his reward for standing all night in icy water; after days of uncooked rice and dal, he paid up.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Indian Food Trivia Quiz?
123. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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