Ice Cream Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What famous ice cream/frozen yogurt company named one of their many flavors after the lead singer of the Grateful Dead?
Answer:
Ben & Jerry's
2.
Ben & Jerry's named their popular "Cherry Garcia" flavor after which music star?
Answer:
Jerry Garcia
3.
What is inside a Creamsicle?
Answer:
Vanilla Ice Cream
4.
What three flavors are in "Neapolitan" ice cream?
Answer:
Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry
5.
What color is pistachio ice cream?
Answer:
Green
6.
What is "Gelato"?
Answer:
Italian Ice Cream
7.
Which is typically on top of an ice cream sundae?
Answer:
A Cherry
8.
Which popular Ben & Jerry's ice cream is banana flavored with chunks of fudge and walnuts?
Answer:
Chunky Monkey
9.
Ice cream made with crumbled up "Oreo" cookies is known as what?
Answer:
Cookies 'N Cream
10.
In the world of ice cream cones, what is a "jacket"?
Answer:
Covering On The Cone Bottom
11.
Ice cream can be found in which food group?
Answer:
Dairy
12.
In the United States, which month has been designated as "National Ice Cream Month"?
Answer:
July
13.
The "Rocky Road" flavor typically consists of chocolate ice cream, almonds and which ingredient?
Answer:
Marshmallows
14.
Which animal is the mascot for the "Klondike Bar"?
Answer:
Polar Bear
15.
What is the source of the vanilla used in making vanilla ice cream?
Answer:
Vanilla Bean Seeds
16.
What is a "Root Beer Float"?
Answer:
Vanilla Ice Cream And Root Beer
17.
What food product is advertised as "Vermont's finest"?
Answer:
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
18.
Which ice cream company produced "Phish Sticks" and "The Vermonster"?
Answer:
Ben & Jerry's
19.
What Ben & Jerry's flavor originated from a hoax a woman played on her Ben & Jerry-loving spouse?
Answer:
Chubby Hubby
20.
The Carvel ice cream company is named for which man?
Answer:
Thomas A. Carvelas
21.
Doubling the amount of air in ice cream led to the production of what?
Answer:
Soft Ice Cream
22.
Which successful ice cream company was founded by Reuben Mattus?
Answer:
Haagen-Dazs
23.
What is the brand name for a chocolate covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil?
Answer:
Eskimo Pie
24.
What flavor of ice cream is used in a traditional root beer float?
Answer:
Vanilla
25.
Baskin-Robbins originally offered how many ice cream flavors?
Answer:
31
26.
Where was the ice cream cone was first offered?
Answer:
St. Louis World's Fair
27.
Which is the largest ice cream chain in the world?
Answer:
Baskin Robbins
28.
Which Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor is a tribute to a deceased Grateful Dead member?
Answer:
Cherry Garcia
29.
The "Eskimo Pie" is made of which two flavors?
Answer:
Chocolate And Vanilla
30.
Which company makes "Dilly Bars"?
Answer:
Dairy Queen
31.
Which company makes the popular "Blizzard" ice cream treat?
Answer:
Dairy Queen
32.
Which brand of ice cream is known as "the ice cream of the future"?
Answer:
Dippin' Dots
33.
Ice cream was made available to the general public for the first time in which country?
Answer:
France
34.
Italo Machiony was awarded a patent in December 1903 for which invention?
Answer:
Ice Cream Cone
35.
Which ice cream flavor is usually green with chocolate chips?
Answer:
Mint Chocolate Chip
36.
In which city did the first American ice cream parlor open in 1776?
Answer:
New York
37.
Which 3 flavors are in Good Humor's "Rainbow Sherbet"?
Answer:
Orange, Lime And Raspberry
38.
Baskin-Robbins is famous for which color sampling spoons?
Answer:
Pink
39.
Which United States President decreed July to be National Ice Cream Month?
Answer:
Ronald Reagan
40.
A snow cone consists of which two ingredients?
Answer:
Shaved Ice And Flavored Syrup
41.
The 5 Boroughs Ice Cream Company caused a stink for creating which unique flavor?
Answer:
Staten Island Landfill
42.
From which part of the vanilla plant is vanilla flavoring derived?
Answer:
Bean
43.
"Maple Nut" ice cream typically contains which kind of nut?
Answer:
Walnut
44.
Where was the first ice cream sundae served?
Answer:
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
45.
When the first Baskin-Robbins store opened in 1945, how many flavors did it sell?
Answer:
21
46.
Baskin-Robbins once sold an ice cream flavor known as "Steverino" named for which star?
Answer:
Steve Allen
47.
Who was the first to franchise a retail ice cream store in the U.S.?
Answer:
Carvel
48.
Who opened the world's first commercial ice cream factory in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1851?
Answer:
Jacob Fussell
49.
Where was the first out-of-state Ben & Jerry's franchise opened?
Answer:
Portland, Maine
50.
What are the first names of ice cream moguls Baskin and Robbins?
Answer:
Burt And Irv
51.
When did the first ice cream parlor open in America?
Answer:
1776
52.
Italo Marchiony invented the waffle cup in which year?
Answer:
1903
53.
In which year did Hershey's introduce chocolate syrup in a can?
Answer:
1928
54.
In which year did Baskin-Robbins introduce "Pink Bubble Gum" ice cream?
Answer:
1970
55.
When was the ice cream bar invented?
Answer:
1920's
56.
Where was the first Cold Stone Creamery store opened?
Answer:
Arizona
57.
The first commercial ice cream plant, established in 1851 by Jacob Fussell, was in which city?
Answer:
Baltimore
58.
Which ice cream company gave away free cones on the anniversary of its opening day?
Answer:
Ben & Jerry's
59.
The "Big Bopper Sandwich" is a product of which major ice cream manufacturer?
Answer:
Blue Bunny
60.
The chemists who discovered the method used to make soft ice cream were which nationality?
Answer:
British
61.
Who founded Dippin' Dots?
Answer:
Curt Jones
62.
Which chain of ice cream shops uses the slogan "We Treat You Right"?
Answer:
Dairy Queen
63.
Chris Nelson, inventor of the famous "Eskimo Pie" bar, was from which Midwestern state?
Answer:
Iowa
64.
The Eskimo Pie brand of ice cream snacks originally went by which name?
Answer:
I-Scream-Bar
65.
Outside of the U.S. and Canada, where was the first Ben and Jerry's opened in 1988?
Answer:
Israel
66.
In which European country was the first documented making of ice cream?
Answer:
Italy
67.
Who is known as the father of the American ice cream industry?
Answer:
Jacob Fussell
68.
Who wrote the original song, "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream"?
Answer:
Johnson, Moll & King
69.
Which company manufacturers the popular "Drumstick" brand of ice cream treats?
Answer:
Nestle
70.
In which famous city and country did the ice cream brand, Haagen Dazs, get its start?
Answer:
New York City, America
71.
Bennet Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, was born in which east coast city?
Answer:
New York, New York
72.
Haagen-Dazs was founded in 1960 by whom?
Answer:
Reuben Mattus
73.
Which former U.S. President has his vanilla ice cream recipe on display at the Library of Congress?
Answer:
Thomas Jefferson
74.
Breyers was founded in 1866 by which entrepreneur?
Answer:
William Breyer
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