The Pineapple-Pizza Dilemma Trivia Quiz

Answer: Apricots

'Tagine' refers to both the dish and the earthenware pot in which it is cooked. A Moroccan tagine, like the one pictured here, is a slow-cooked stew often featuring lamb (although poultry and fish can be used as well), and fruits such as apricots to add sweetness. Dried fruits can also be used, such as dates, raisins or plums. Vegetarian variants use chickpeas as the protein source.

Answer: The Waldorf-Astoria

The Waldorf salad was invented at the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel by maître d'hôtel Oscar Tschirky for a charity ball in 1896. This one has oranges and apples, while other variants contain grapes, but the original ingredients were apples, celery and mayonnaise. Walnuts were added to the recipe in 1928. Some variants contain turkey, citrus zest or dried fruits.

Answer: Pig

Gammon and pineapple is a pub classic, with the sweetness of the pineapple ring offsetting the saltiness of the meat. Gammon in a British context, as pictured here, is meat from the hind leg of a pig that has been cured and salted; it can also be smoked. Unlike Spanish serrano ham, it is not dried, and must be cooked before eating.

It is a popular Christmas dish in the UK, often served on Boxing Day.

Answer: Duck ā l'orange

Duck ā l'orange was a British dinner party favourite back in the '70s, and I enjoyed it as a young child in the '80s. The dish is thought to have originated at the Medici Court, and was introduced to France when Catherine de'Medici married the Duke of Orleans and brought Italian recipes with her, including pāpero all'arancia (the Italian for 'duck ā l'orange').

In the Renaissance period, whole ducks were used, but the modern recipe uses roast duck breast.

Answer: Umeboshi

Strictly speaking, ume aren't plums - they're closer to apricots, although they do come from the Prunus family. Unlike many of the fruits used in the dishes in this quiz, they're very sour due to being pickled in barrels of salt, which draws out the juice and creates a vinegar-like liquid.

A sweet variant sweetened with honey also exists. They can also be flavoured with kombu, a type of seaweed, or katusobushi (tuna flakes). As well as noodle dishes, they can also be served with rice or sushi.

Answer: Roquefort

Roquefort is a blue sheep's milk cheese containing mould known as Penicillium roqueforti. It has a protected designation of origin, meaning that it is not real Roquefort cheese unless it is aged in the caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in the south of France.

It was officially recognised in the 15th century by King Charles VI of France. Roquefort is often accompanied by pears in salads because the mellow sweetness of the pears compliments the tanginess of the cheese; it can also be used as a stuffing for pears.

Answer: Lingonberry

Swedish DIY megastore chain IKEA is known for its köttbullar, mashed potato and lingonberry sauce, with a little Swedish flag stuck in them. Lingonberries are a staple berry in Nordic cuisine, being made into sauces, jams and juices, and sweetened due to their tart taste.

As well as meatballs, lingonberry sauce is a popular accompaniment to reindeer or elk steak. They are also popular in Inuit and indigenous Alaskan cuisine, where they can be mixed with seal blubber, fish and/or fish eggs.

Answer: Thanksgiving

The roast turkey is the centrepiece of the traditional Thanksgiving table, and is usually accompanied by gravy, mashed potato and cranberry sauce. Cranberries were introduced to French settlers in Canada by the indigenous Mi'kmaq people; the settlers, being unfamiliar with the fruit, described them as 'small red apples'.

In the US, cranberries were thought to have been used as a stuffing rather than a sauce; it was not until the early 20th century that cranberry sauce really took off, when it was invented by Marcus Urann, one of the founders of Ocean Spray.

Another sweet side dish enjoyed with Thanksgiving turkey is candied sweet potatoes.

Answer: Iran

Polo is the Iranian version of pilaf, a rice dish eaten all over the world. Shirin polo is also known as wedding rice and is served with nuts and fruits; these can be dried fruits, such as barberries - a tart little berry used in Middle Eastern cuisine - or raisins, or apricots and cherries like the ones shown here.

It gets its yellowish colour from saffron or turmeric and is usually served with chicken. It is a popular dish among Persian Jews and is eaten on special occasions, such as weddings or Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year).

Answer: No

No, the Hawaiian pizza is NOT Hawaiian - it's Canadian! It was conceived by Sam Panopoulos, a Greek immigrant to Canada, in 1962 at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. He was inspired by Chinese cuisine and the mixture of sweet and sour flavours, and used pineapple and ham or bacon as a topping.

Although this pizza was not popular at first, it eventually caught on locally and then globally. It also gets its name from a brand of pineapples that Panopoulos used, not the state of Hawaii itself.

As this quiz title suggests, pineapple is one of the more divisive pizza toppings, along with anchovies.