1. Which word can go in front of biscuit, closet and colour?
Water
2. In which country did the word biscuit originate?
France (literally means twice cooked)
3. Born in 1807, which Italian patriot gave his name to a type of biscuit?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
4. What name is given to the brittle glazed salty biscuit usually made in the form of a knot?
Pretzel
5. Which TV detective kept his gun in a biscuit jar?
Jim Rockford
6. What flavour is a ratafia biscuit?
Almond
7. What is the name of the Italian dessert made from coffee soaked biscuit, layered with a sweetened cream cheese?
Tiramisu
8. What is the base of a Florantine biscuit made from?
Chocolate
9. What name is given to a chewy biscuit, made of oats, sugar, butter and golden syrup
Flapjack
10. Following a recent scientific study, what was said to be the best biscuit for dunking in tea?
Ginger Nut
11. What was advertised using the slogan "A drink's too wet without one"?
McVities Rich Tea biscuits
12. Which Popular Chocolate Biscuit Was Originally Called Bluebird?
Penguin
13. Which system in the human body shares its name with a popular biscuit?
Digestive
14. What Is The Name Of The Fancy Biscuits Or Cakes That Are Taken From The French For Little Oven?
Petits Four
15. What do the Americans call what we in Britain know as a biscuit?
Cookie
16. What is Jacobs Bakery’s best selling product?
Club Biscuits - then Cream Crackers
17. True or False - In Norway, there are a type of biscuits called ‘Nora Knackers’?
True
18. What was the name of the sleazy diner where Lucy Ewing once worked in Dallas?
The Hot Biscuit
19. In cockney rhyming slang what are you referring to if you say “biscuits and cheese”?
Knees
20. Which famous biscuit was originally called Rowntrees chocolate crisp when it was first advertised?
Kit Kat
(Take a break!)
21. What word can go after biscuit and gun and before organ to make two new words or phrases?
Barrel
22. In 1950 a biscuit factory was built for the mass production of just one product. It's a chocolate biscuit still extremely popular today. What is it?
Penguin
23. What is the name of the horse, subject of a recent film starring Tobey McGuire and Geoff Bridges?
Sea Biscuit - Jockey Willy Shoemaker was associated with the legendary racehorse
24. If at Christmas, you given a lebkuchen as a present, what would you do with it?
Eat it, it's a kind of German Christmas biscuit.
25. What biscuit did a West Country doctor give his name to?
Bath Oliver
26. What small cake or biscuit is composed chiefly of egg whites, sugar, and ground almonds or occasionally coconut?
Macaroon
27. Which word links a town in France and a biscuit?
Nice
28. From which film does this line come "Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit!"?
Coming To America
29. In what year were Jaffa cakes defined as cakes and not biscuits in a VAT ruling?
1991
30. Which actor, born Michael Dumble smith took his stage name from a passing biscuit lorry?
Michael Crawford
31. Which band provided the theme tune for Mission Impossible 2?
Limp Biscuit
32. Which one word is a name brand of a biscuit and a famous hotel?
Ritz
33. Traditionally what is used as a base in a cheesecake?
Biscuit crumbs
34. Which biscuit was named after Queen Victoria’s holiday home on the Isle of Wight?
Osborne
35. In which TV series did the characters Richard Fish and John “The Biscuit” Cage appear?
Ally McBeal
36. Which biscuit is named after a French Royal family?
Bourbon
(London Question - You might not think of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe as the centre of the British biscuit industry but it was right up until 1989, producing among others the Garibaldi biscuit, the Chocolate Table (the first ever chocolate biscuit) and the Bourbon. Which famous Bermondsey firm made them?
Peek Freans)
37. Which hard round biscuit shares its name with the nickname for a person with red hair?
Ginger Nut
38. What kind of biscuit shares its name with a small noisy firework?
Cracker
39. What spice flavours the crispy biscuit brandy Snaps?
Ginger
40. Which is Britain’s biggest biscuit company?
McVitie’s
Tiebreaker - How many Varieties of Biscuit in a Tin of Fox’s Chocolae Creation?
Eleven
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