What does a five-way Cincinnati chili include?

Spaghetti, chili, cheese, onions and beans

Regional Chili Styles Trivia: 10 Questions With Answers

In Cincinnati, chili is spooned over spaghetti and topped with a mound of cheese, and regional chili styles trivia explores how one dish split into many. Compare Texas bowls of red without beans, New Mexico's green chile stews, Springfield's chilli spelling and the cook-offs of Terlingua.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Cincinnati
How is Cincinnati chili served?
Ways
What does a five-way Cincinnati chili include?
Beans
What is famously missing from Texas chili?
Spices
Which spices give Cincinnati chili its unique taste?
Terlingua
Which Texas ghost town hosts famous chili cook-offs?
Green
Which state is famous for green chile stew?
Christmas
What does ordering Christmas mean in New Mexico?
Springfield
How does Springfield, Illinois, spell chili?
White
What is white chili usually made with?
Carroll Shelby
Which car designer co-founded the Terlingua chili cook-off?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: How is Cincinnati chili served?
Answer: Over spaghetti
Skyline and Gold Star are famous.
Q2: What does a five-way Cincinnati chili include?
Answer: Spaghetti, chili, cheese, onions and beans
Three-way has cheese only.
Q3: What is famously missing from Texas chili?
Answer: Beans
It is called a bowl of red.
Q4: Which spices give Cincinnati chili its unique taste?
Answer: Cinnamon and cloves
Greek-Macedonian immigrants created it.
Q5: Which Texas ghost town hosts famous chili cook-offs?
Answer: Terlingua
The first was in 1967.
Q6: Which state is famous for green chile stew?
Answer: New Mexico
Christmas means red and green.
Q7: What does ordering Christmas mean in New Mexico?
Answer: Both red and green chile
It is a local phrase.
Q8: How does Springfield, Illinois, spell chili?
Answer: Chilli
A local legislative resolution backed it.
Q9: What is white chili usually made with?
Answer: Chicken and white beans
It skips tomatoes.
Q10: Which car designer co-founded the Terlingua chili cook-off?
Answer: Carroll Shelby
He also sold chili kits.

Regional Chili Styles Trivia – One Pot, Many Styles

Chili con carne grew from the cooking of San Antonio's chili queens in the 1800s, then spread across the United States. As it traveled, communities created their own styles, sparking strong opinions about beans, spices and toppings.

Texas chili, known as a bowl of red, traditionally contains meat and chile peppers but no beans. Cincinnati chili, created by Greek-Macedonian immigrants, uses cinnamon and cloves and is served over spaghetti in numbered ways. New Mexico prizes green and red chile stews.

Springfield, Illinois, spells it chilli, and white chili uses chicken and white beans. Chili cook-offs, like the famous one in Terlingua, Texas, co-founded by Carroll Shelby, celebrate this competitive and much-loved dish.

What This Quiz Teaches

Food lovers and travelers will enjoy these questions.

How Cincinnati serves chili
Why Texas skips beans
What New Mexico Christmas means
How Springfield spells it
Where cook-offs happen

Did You Know?

Chili dogs are popular in Michigan.
Chili powder blends were sold in the 1890s.
Frito pie uses chili and corn chips.
Vegetarian chili uses beans and vegetables.
Chili was a cowboy trail food.