Classic Diners and Coffee Shops Trivia Quiz
Classic diner trivia returns to an era of counter stools, pie cases, coffee refills, roadside restaurants, and downtown luncheon spots. The questions cover distinctive service styles, familiar foods, diner slang, music at the booth, restaurant design, and an important civil rights protest.
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Bonnie | 8 / 12 | 5:32 |
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Cobra | 6 / 12 | 3:02 |
Top 2 today
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Linda | 12 / 12 | 3:08 |
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Ron | 11 / 12 | 2:29 |
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Joey | 11 / 12 | 8:18 |
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Hudikm | 11 / 12 | 12:41 |
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Penny | 10 / 12 | 2:12 |
Top 5 this week
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Linda | 12 / 12 | 3:08 |
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Ron | 11 / 12 | 2:29 |
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Joey | 11 / 12 | 8:18 |
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Hudikm | 11 / 12 | 12:41 |
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Penny | 10 / 12 | 2:12 |
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What This Quiz Covers
The quiz covers coin-operated food service, roadside ice-cream stops, department-store lunch counters, booth-side music selectors, colorful diner order slang, distinctive restaurant interiors, urban coffee culture, and a landmark 1960 protest.
Trivia Study Guide ›
- Which city became famous for the 1960 sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter?
- Howard Johnson's restaurants famously advertised how many flavors of ice cream?
- What architectural shape inspired many classic prefabricated diners built to resemble mobile eating cars?
- In classic diner slang, what did an order of "Adam and Eve on a raft" usually mean?
- Which beverage at Horn & Hardart became famous for costing a nickel for many years?
- Which visual feature became closely associated with many Childs restaurants in the early 20th century?
- Where inside many Woolworth stores could shoppers sit down for coffee, sandwiches, and pie?
- Which restaurant chain was especially known for elegant luncheon spots popular with women shoppers in New York?
- What small music device was often mounted at diner booths so customers could choose songs without leaving their seats?
- How did customers usually obtain prepared dishes at a Horn & Hardart Automat?
- Which food became a particularly well-known menu item at Howard Johnson's roadside restaurants?
- Which pair of cities was most closely associated with Horn & Hardart's famous Automat restaurants?
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