Printable Food Picture Quizzes (Desserts, Chefs & Cheeses)
Test your knowledge of food with these printable picture quizzes featuring desserts, celebrity chefs, and cheeses. Designed for quiz nights or fun play between friends, they include a mix of familiar favourites and more challenging images to identify, with answers provided on the quizmaster’s sheet.
Each quiz is laid out on a single A4 page with 20 high-quality food related images and space beneath each one for players to write their answers. You can print as many copies as needed for your group or event, with a separate answer sheet included for quick marking.
About This Food Picture Quiz
- Professionally designed printable quiz sheets
- Themed rounds: At the moment, desserts, celebrity chefs, and cheeses
- Free to download for personal and non-commercial use
- Suitable for quiz nights and group activities
- High-resolution images for clear printing on standard paper
- Works well for general knowledge quizzes
Images
Our quiz content uses only public domain images and, where appropriate, Creative Commons-licensed images. This can sometimes make producing quizzes challenging, as most high-quality images are copyrighted. In some cases, certain images are impossible to obtain, such as those of celebrity chefs like Cherish Finden. Additionally, non-copyrighted images are often of lower quality. Despite these limitations, we do our best to ensure our picture quizzes are professional, enjoyable, and engaging for you.
Each quiz combines well-known favourites with a few more challenging items. For example, in the desserts category, most people will recognise what a Battenberg cake looks like, but how many would know what traditional Greek galaktoboureko looks like? Then there are tiramisu and banoffee pie as medium-level questions.
We realise that there might be some ambiguity with certain images, as some cheeses can often look quite similar. For instance, Brie and Camembert do indeed have a similar appearance. Remember that these quizzes are for fun only and that the images are accurate and carefully sourced. In such cases, it’s best to follow the old doctrine that the quiz master’s word is final.
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- Chocolate cake
- Tirimasu
- Eton Mess
- Bannoffee pie
- Baked Alaska
- Battenberge cakes
- Crème brûlée
- Welsh cakes
- Roquefort
- Mozzarella
- Yarg
- Stilton
- Emmental
- Anna Haugh
- Michel Roux jr
- Nadiya Hussain
- Marco Pierre White
- Ken Hom
- Julia Child
How to Use
- Download and print the quiz sheets
- Give one to each player or team
- Set a time limit (usually 15 to 30 minutes)
- Mark answers using the included answer sheet
- Print additional copies as needed
More Printables
Explore more printable picture quizzes across a range of topics, or browse the full collection on our Printable Picture Quizzes Hub. You can also try our related food and drink quiz, or visit the help printables section for useful resources like weekly meal planners.
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Why Food Picture Quizzes Are So Popular
Food picture quizzes are popular because they combine visual recognition with everyday knowledge in a way that feels both fun and familiar. There’s something satisfying about identifying dishes, well-known chefs, or different types of cheese just from an image. Some are instantly recognisable, while others look surprisingly similar, making the challenge more interesting than expected. Whether you’re hosting a quiz night, planning a classroom activity, or putting together a casual game at home, food-themed picture rounds are easy to run and appeal to a wide range of players.
These printables use clear, high-quality images and cover a mix of categories, including desserts, celebrity chefs, and cheeses. The variety helps keep things engaging, with a balance of well-known favourites and slightly more challenging items across each round.
Helpful Notes for Quizmasters
- Presentation, lighting, and portion style can influence how food appears in images, sometimes making similar items harder to tell apart.
- All accepted answers use commonly recognised names to keep the quiz straightforward and fair for every player.
- Where an answer is close or open to interpretation, the quizmaster has the final say - especially when items look alike.
- All images used are properly licensed or cleared for reuse, so the quiz can be printed and shared with confidence.
Interesting Food Facts
- Honey is the only food that never spoils - archaeologists have found pots of it in ancient Egyptian tombs still perfectly edible.
- Vanilla is more expensive than silver by weight because vanilla orchids must be pollinated by hand and the pods take months to cure.
- Carrots weren’t originally orange - they were purple, yellow, or white. The orange variety was cultivated in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
- Worcestershire sauce is fermented for up to 18 months and traditionally contains anchovies that dissolve completely during the process.
- Peppers, tomatoes, courgettes, pumpkins, and cucumbers are all technically fruits because they contain seeds.
- Wasabi served in most restaurants isn’t real wasabi - it’s usually dyed horseradish because true wasabi is rare and extremely expensive.
- Potatoes were the first vegetable grown in space, cultivated aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1995.
- Cashews aren’t nuts - they’re seeds that grow on the outside of a fruit called a cashew apple.
- Bananas are berries, botanically speaking, while strawberries aren’t berries at all.