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Soups and Stews of the World

Ladle your way from Andalusian gazpacho to Vietnamese pho and find out whether your soup knowledge is thin broth or a hearty stew.

🍜 Food medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Gazpacho, the chilled soup blended from tomato, cucumber, pepper, bread and olive oil, comes from which Spanish region?
  • Japanese miso soup is flavoured with a paste made by fermenting which bean?
  • Goulash, the paprika-rich beef stew, is the national dish of which country?
  • Ramen, the noodle soup shown, was adapted in Japan from noodles brought over by immigrants from which country?
  • Bouillabaisse, a saffron-scented stew of Mediterranean rockfish, is the pride of which French port city?
  • Is a traditional Irish stew made with lamb or mutton?
  • What does the Italian word minestrone literally mean?
  • Select ALL of these soups that are traditionally served cold.
  • Vietnamese pho is served with which kind of noodles?
  • The name of gumbo, Louisiana's famous stew, is often traced to an African word for okra.
  • Harira, a Moroccan soup of tomato, lentils and chickpeas, is famously eaten at which moment?
  • In Furnas, on the Azorean island of São Miguel, how is the local cozido famously cooked?
  • Select ALL of these stews that are traditionally made with beans.
  • Vichyssoise, the chilled leek and potato soup, was first served in the French spa town of Vichy.
  • Order these soups by the longitude of their homeland, from west to east.
  • The name of mulligatawny, the curried soup of British India, comes from Tamil words meaning what?
  • Cullen skink, a thick Scottish soup, is made with potatoes, onions and which fish?
  • Bird's nest soup, a luxury in Chinese cuisine, is made from swiftlet nests built out of what?
  • In what year did Campbell's chemist John T. Dorrance invent condensed soup?
  • Which Hungarian soup, cooked by river fishermen, is made with carp and plenty of paprika?