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Which meal name once meant to break one's fast, and why is a slice of Lorne sausage square? These breakfast trivia questions fill five rounds, from a Roman soldier's porridge to pancakes in Uganda and Indonesia.
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Breakfast foods trivia questions and answers
The word and the first breakfasts goes back to Egypt, Greece and Rome. The full breakfast of Britain and Ireland covers laverbread, farls and white pudding. Breakfast in North America has ashcakes and the lumberjack breakfast. Pancakes of Europe runs a race with a frying pan, and Breakfasts and pancakes around the world reaches Argentina.
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One question is on the card at a time, with four choices under it. Your tap is marked right or wrong, and the reason appears with the article it was read in. Ten questions make a set.
Questions and answers
Why is it called breakfast?
The word refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night. It came into use in written English around the 15th century; in Old English a regular morning meal was called morgenmete.
What is in a full English breakfast?
There is no fixed menu. A common traditional one has back bacon, sausages, eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, black pudding, baked beans, and toast or fried bread.
What is another name for a pancake?
Hotcake, griddlecake and flapjack are all used in the United States and Canada. In parts of Scotland pancakes are also called drop scones, and in Australia and New Zealand small ones are pikelets.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 4, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked under it: Breakfast, Full breakfast or Pancake. Cereal makers and restaurant chains by name, health findings, polls and championships are left out.