Nordic Cuisine Trivia Questions
- âť“ 77+ questions
- 🗂️ Food
- ✨ Free to play
Food traditions of Scandinavia. Play Nordic Cuisine trivia solo to sharpen your knowledge, or challenge a friend head-to-head in Trivia Tango — every question comes with an explanation so you learn as you play.
Already playing?
Sample Nordic Cuisine Questions
Think you know the answers? Play to find out.
This Scandinavian cured salmon dish is prepared by burying fillets in a mixture of salt, sugar, and dill, never using heat, and is traditionally sliced paper-thin at an angle.
- Rakfisk
- Surströmming
- Gravlax
- Lutefisk
Swedish coffee culture revolves around this daily ritual of taking a break with coffee and pastries, typically occurring mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
- Mys
- Fika
- Hygge
- Lagom
These small, savory Swedish meatballs are traditionally served with lingonberry jam and creamy gravy, and became famous worldwide through a certain furniture retailer's cafeteria.
- Lihapullat
- Köttbullar
- Frikadeller
- Kjøttkaker
This tart red berry, native to Nordic forests and too bitter to eat raw, is the essential accompaniment to Swedish meatballs and appears in jams throughout Scandinavian cuisine.
- Lingonberry
- Crowberry
- Cloudberry
- Sea buckthorn
This dark, dense Scandinavian bread made primarily from rye flour and often sweetened with molasses has a distinctive sour flavor from its long fermentation process.
- Lefse
- Knäckebröd
- Rugbrød
- Tunnbröd
This Scandinavian buffet-style meal features a spread of cold and warm dishes, and its name literally translates to "sandwich table" despite being far more elaborate.
- Julbord
- Voileipäpöytä
- Smörgåsbord
- Koldtbord
This iconic Swedish cinnamon pastry, typically shaped into a spiral or knot and topped with pearl sugar, has its own national day celebrated on October 4th.
- Wienerbrød
- Semla
- Kanelbulle
- Kardemummabulle
Danish open-faced sandwiches built on a single slice of dark rye bread and topped with artistic arrangements of fish, meat, or vegetables are called this.
- Brødskive
- Smörgås
- Smørrebrød
- Voileipä
Think You Know Nordic Cuisine?
Play a free round in your browser, learn something new with every answer, and challenge your friends to beat your score.
Or get the app