Booze 'N' Snacks Trivia Quiz

Answer: Beer

The Cornish brewery Sharp's started brewing the amber ale named Doom Bar in 1994 and named it after a treacherous coastal sandbank near the brewery's home of Rock. The beer soon became very popular, so much so that the multi-national brewing consortium Molson Coors brought out Sharp's in 2011, and soon Doom Bar was available in pubs all around the UK.

It is now firmly established as one of the top-ten selling cask beers in the country.

Answer: Beer

Jaipur is brewed by the Thornbridge Brewery, which was founded in 2005 at Thornbridge Hall, Derbyshire, although it is now based in the nearby town of Bakewell. Jaipur has become one of its most acclaimed beers and is inspired by strong India Pale Ales (IPAs), but with American-style hops.

It's maybe an unwise choice as a party beer because of its strength (5.9% ABV), but it's a personal favourite, so I've got to have some.

Answer: Beer

Old Peculier (the peculiar spelling is not a typo) is brewed by Theakston's in Masham, Yorkshire. The name comes from an ancient ecclesiastical organisation known as the "Court of the Old Peculier". It's another fairly strong beer (5.6% ABV) but is another classic brew. Between 1987 and 2003 the Theakston company was taken over by the multi-national Scottish and Newcastle, but in 2003 the Theakston family brought it back, restoring its status as a family-run firm again.

Answer: Spirits

The blended Scotch whisky known as The Famous Grouse was first sold in 1896 by Matthew Gloag of Perth and was originally just called The Grouse. In 1905 the firm became a limited company, Matthew Gloag & Son, and the "Famous" part of the name was added. Over the following decades it became the best-selling blended Scotch whisky in Scotland.

As of March 2025, the brand was sold to another distillery, William Grant & Sons.

Answer: Spirits

Gordon's Gin is the UK's best-selling brand of gin. It was first produced in 1769 by Alexander Gordon at his distillery in Southwark, London, and is flavoured with a secret mix of various botanicals including juniper berries, coriander, angelica, liquorice and lemon.

The company has been through several owners in its 250-year history, and by 2025 was part of the massive Diageo plc portfolio.

Answer: Spirits

Smirnoff is a popular brand of vodka that is now distilled in various locations around the world (though not Russia). It traces its origins back to a Moscow-based distillery founded in 1864 by one Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov, where it was initially very popular. During the October Revolution (1917), the Smirnov family fled Russia and eventually sold the rights to the brand to an American-based businessman named Rudolph Kunett. Kunett established the brand in America and built it up to a very successful product. Like many other big-name spirits, it is now owned by Diageo plc.

Answer: Snacks

Doritos is the brand name for a type of flavoured tortilla chip, which were the first such snack to be marketed nationally in the United States. They were originally invented in the 1960s by a cook at the Casa de Fritos restaurant at the Disneyland resort in California, who took some unwanted tortillas, chopped them into small triangular pieces, and fried them, making a tasty crispy corn snack.

The company that owned the restaurant, Frito-Lay, began to produce them on a large scale, and in 1966 they were launched across the USA.

They are now available around the world in a wide variety of flavours.

Answer: Snacks

Pringles is the brand name of a potato-based snack manufactured by Proctor and Gamble since 1968. They consist of a combination of reconstituted potato, wheat, rice and corn formed into a curved, saddle-shaped snack that is sold in a cylindrical container.

The shape is apparently known technically as a hyperbolic paraboloid. They are now sold in some 140 countries worldwide and come in a wide variety of flavours.

Answer: Snacks

Pretzels come in a variety of sizes and forms, but the basic shape is the same - a long strip of dough folded into a particular knotted shape. Large soft ones made of baked dough are a popular breakfast snack, but for parties it is more usual to have small, crisp-like ones that can be eaten whole like crisps (or chips in American lingo). No-one really knows when and where the original pretzel was made, but a pretzel-shaped emblem has been used by German bakers since the twelfth century.

Answer: Morning After

Pepto-Bismol is one of the brand-names under which the chemical bismuth subsalicylate is sold, as a medication for upset stomachs, sickness and indigestion. Bismuth salts were being prescribed for sickness in the eighteenth century, and the Pepto-Bismuth brand was first marketed in America in 1900.

It is normally available as a thick pink liquid and can be purchased as an over-the-counter medication.

Answer: Morning After

After a hard night partying, you may find yourself in need of a couple of ibuprofen tablets, to relieve your nasty headache. In medical terms, ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that acts as a general form of pain relief. It was first discovered in 1961 by Stewart Adams and John Nicholson, two chemists working at a Boots laboratory.

It was first sold under the brand name Brufen, and is now commonly available as Nurofen and Advil, among other brands.

Answer: Morning After

Gaviscon is a popular over-the-counter medication known as an antacid, which can treat heartburn, indigestion or upset stomachs, by neutralising stomach acidity. If you ate too much at my party, you might find Gaviscon helpful. But please don't take it at the same time as the ibuprofen, because they don't react well together, and you could end up feeling even worse!