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Cocktails and alcohol have been a part of social gatherings and celebrations for centuries. From classic martinis and gin and tonics to more recent creations like the cosmopolitan and the espresso martini, there are countless types of cocktails and spirits to choose from. Each drink has its own unique history and flavor profile, making them a fascinating topic to explore. However, not everyone is aware of the interesting trivia and facts surrounding the cocktail and alcohol industry. Here are a few examples of cocktail and alcohol trivia questions that might test your knowledge:
These are just a few examples of the many fascinating facts and trivia related to the cocktail and alcohol industry. Whether you're a cocktail connoisseur or just someone who enjoys a good drink, these questions can be a fun and interesting way to learn more about the world of cocktails and spirits.
1. Dry, wet, Gibson, and vodka are all variations of which olive or lemon twist garnished, shaken or stirred, straight up or on the rocks, cocktail?
Answer: Martini
2. Also known as a vodka buck, a Moscow mule is traditionally served in a mug made of what metal whose name derives from the Latin word “cuprum”?
Answer: Copper
3. The wise owl on the label could tell you: Hatachino Nest Japanese Classic Ale is brewed in cedar casks previously used to brew what rice-based alcoholic drink?
Answer: Sake
4. Havana, Cuba is often referred to as the birthplace of what “M” cocktail whose core ingredients include white rum, lime juice, and mint?
Answer: Mojito
5. Which cocktail that originates in Puerto Rico has a name that translates as “strained pineapple?”
Answer: Piña colada
6. A Moscow Mule consists of vodka, ginger beer, and lime served chilled in a copper mug. What liquor could be subbed in to make a Kentucky Mule?
Answer: Bourbon
7. Cocktails like the Tequila Sunrise and Queen Mary call for what specific type of cherry, sweetened and preserved in syrup?
Answer: Maraschino
8. What cocktail is made of vodka, tequila, rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola? The splash of cola gives it a dark hue to resemble its namesake, and it’s a drink you might enjoy in Montauk, New York.
Answer: Long Island Iced Tea
9. According to the International Bartenders Association, 5 cl of Rye Whiskey, 2 cl of sweet red vermouth, and a dash of Angostura bitters are the ingredients in what cocktail, which is named for a New York City borough?
Answer: Manhattan
10. What cocktail with Bacardi, Blue Curacao, pineapple juice, and coconut garnish shares its name with a two-named personification of cold weather, who “The Christmas Song” claims is “nipping at your nose?”
Answer: Jack Frost
11. What alcoholic spirit is found in all three of these cocktails: Gimlet, Aviation, and Tom Collins?
Answer: Gin
12. What brand of liqueur that shares its name with a coastal city was originally created to simplify the making of piña coladas by bartenders? At 21% ABV, it's sometimes designated as a flavored rum
Answer: Malibu
13. Israel’s popular Sabra liquor is chocolate with hints of what citrus fruit?
Answer: Orange
14. The famous martini becomes a cocktail known as a Gibson when the olive is replaced with what other tearful garnish?
Answer: Cocktail onion
15. The Austin-based bourbon distiller Nine Banded Whiskey is named for what nine-banded little armored critters that appear on their logos?
Answer: Armadillos
16. The Queen’s Park Swizzle is a cocktail that originated in Trinidad that’s made with lime juice, bitters, sugar, mint, and which alcohol?
Answer: Rum
17. According to one legend, explorer Francis Drake was the inventor of what cocktail, whose lime and mint were supposedly useful in curing scurvy among his crew?
Answer: Mojito
18. A Great Wall is a cocktail made with orange vodka, blackcurrant syrup, and a tangerine wedge. The name is inspired by a landmark in which Asian country that cannot, in fact, be seen from space?
Answer: China
19. There's an expression in English often referring to hangovers that originally comes from a Scottish belief that placing a few follicles from a canine on a rabid bite can be a treatment. What is this expression?
Answer: Hair of the Dog
20. According to delish.com, citrus vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, lime, ice (and lime wedge and cranberries for garnishes) are the ingredients needed to make the “Perfect” version of what cocktail that shares its name with a fashion magazine?
Answer: Cosmopolitan
21. Give one to your teacher: Szarlotka is a cocktail widely drunk in Poland, NS features vodka, as well as the juice of which non-citrus fruit?
Answer: Apple
22. Although no one knows for sure, one theory holds that the name of what orange-flavored French liqueur derives from the number of times it's distilled?
Answer: Triple Sec
23. Enough with the clothing questions already…tell me the name of the cocktail whose IBA specified ingredients are whiskey, sugar, bitters, and water?
Answer: Old Fashioned
24. A Bellini is made with Prosecco and the nectar or puree of which fruit?
Answer: Peach
25. The Danny Ocean is a custom cocktail on the Casamigos website, named for a character played by what actor and co-founder of the brand?
Answer: George Clooney
26. Garnished with an orange slice, an Aperol Spritz is made from Aperol, club soda, and what effervescent alcohol?
Answer: Prosecco
27. The South American liquor called Pisco is made from what fruit that also pretty aptly powers Grappa?
Answer: Grapes
28. The Kentucky Derby's traditional mint julep recipe calls for mint, sugar, water, and what type (not brand) of whiskey famously distilled in the Bluegrass State, not France?
Answer: Bourbon
29. The Daiquiri cocktail is thought to have been named after a village in what Caribbean island nation also gave us Montecristo cigars?
Answer: Cuba
30. What "three-ish" alcohol is missing from the following list of alcoholic ingredients of a typical Long Island Iced Tea: vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and what?
Answer: Triple Sec
31. What future "Mission: Impossible" star plays bartender Brian Flanagan in the 1988 movie "Cocktail?"
Answer: Tom Cruise
32. Hemingway's is an invitation-only bar slinging rum, daiquiris, and cigars inside the Washington, DC embassy of what Caribbean country?
Answer: Cuba
33. What cocktail, commonly served with brunch, is of French origin and was first served at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1925?
Answer: Mimosa
34. A Buttery Nipple requires Irish cream and what flavor of schnapps?
Answer: Butterscotch
35. The vodka brand Grey Goose has an English name despite coming from what non-English speaking country (where its name would become "oie grise" in the national language)?
Answer: France
36. Red-Rum and Garden Maze are cocktails at The Overlook Lodge, a Cincinnati bar designed as a tribute to what 1980 Stanley Kubrick film?
Answer: The Shining
37. The Caipirinha, a cocktail made of cachaca, sugar, and lime, is the national cocktail of what South American country?
Answer: Brazil
38. Both perfect for fine girls: Cognac and Pisco are examples of what liquor that’s made by distilling wine?
Answer: Brandy
39. What rum brand with an accent on its final letter sells a line of Real Rum canned cocktails that includes rum punch, Bahama Mamas, and mojitos?
Answer: Bacardi
40. What cocktail consists of blanco tequila, lime juice, and a pinch of salt, all of which is topped off by grapefruit soda? The name means "dove" in Spanish, and sounds a little like a type of horse.
Answer: Paloma
41. Used in cocktails such as the Skeleton Key, Eye Candy, and Melon Ball Drop, St. Germain is a liqueur made from what plant?
Answer: Elderflower
42. What is the name of the scandalously popular vodka-based cocktail mixed with fruit flavors often including peach schnapps, orange juice and cranberry juice?
Answer: Sex on the Beach
43. Crown Royal whiskey is produced in what country with QE2 on their $20 bill?
Answer: Canada
44. Over the two days of Kentucky Derby weekend, Churchill Downs Racetrack sells approximately 120,000 of what bourbon-based cocktail?
Answer: Mint julep
45. Famously, a White Russian is The Dude's cocktail of choice in what classic 1998 Coen Brothers comedy film?
Answer: The Big Lebowski
46. The French 75 cocktail was first created at a Parisian bar called the New York Bar in 1915 during what global conflict that ended on November 11, 1918?
Answer: World War I
47. What popular two-word Rum cocktail takes its name from the Tahitian word for “good” or “excellent”, but was actually invented in Oakland, California in 1944?
Answer: Mai Tai
48. What brand of Tennessee whiskey is produced in a dry county, and therefore, cannot be sold where it is made?
Answer: Jack Daniel's
49. Supposedly named for a barista grabbing the wrong ingredient, a Negroni sbagliato or "bungled Negroni" is just a regular Negroni made with what effervescent alcoholic beverage swapped for gin?
Answer: Prosecco / Sparkling white wine
50. The Kentucky Club in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was a historical hotspot for Americans fleeing Prohibition, and claims to be the birthplace of what cocktail, invented and named for a female patron?
Answer: Margarita
51. First created by Ernest Hemingway himself is this milky green drink of many names: "Hemingway's Champagne", the Hemingway, or "Death in the Afternoon". The cocktail contains a flute of champagne and a jigger of what strong anise-flavored spirit?
Answer: Absinthe
52. Created in the 1990s at Lola’s West Hollywood restaurant, an appletini includes which liquid as its primary alcoholic ingredient?
Answer: Vodka
53. If you grow it, they will drink: Rye and barley get a lot of attention in the distilling game, but a mash of what field-dwelling vegetable must legally be present if you’re making bourbon?
Answer: Corn
54. What cocktail that combines vodka, lemonade, and blue curaçao shares a name with a 1980 coming-of-age film?
Answer: Blue Lagoon
55. What similarly named cocktail is prepared in much the same way as a Sea Breeze, with vodka and cranberry juice, but substituting pineapple juice for the Sea Breeze's grapefruit juice?
Answer: Bay Breeze
56. What Asian country’s “Sling” was created in 1915 at the Long Bar of the Raffles hotel by Ngiam Tong Boon, and features gin, cherry heering, benedictine, lime, angostura bitters, and soda?
Answer: Singapore
57. What Swiss cinnamon schnapps has actual flakes of gold floating in it?
Answer: Goldschlager
58. What is the name for a drink consisting of espresso diluted with hot water, or a cocktail containing Campari and sweet vermouth?
Answer: Americano
59. A combination of vodka, triple sec, and lime juice: what cocktail is believed to have been invented at an American Naval Base in Japan during World War II? It has a Japanese K-name meaning "divine wind".
Answer: Kamikaze
60. The martini glass is an iconic cocktail shape: a triangle on top of a skinny stem. What C-word style of glass is similar to the martini glass, but has a rounded edge and is typically used for servings with no ice?
Answer: Coupe
61. Following Sully Sullenberger's "Miracle on the Hudson" plane landing, New York City bars began honoring him with a special cocktail. The drink calls for a splash of water and two shots of what brand of vodka, referencing what caused the need for the emergency landing?
Answer: Grey Goose
62. An Aviation cocktail includes gin, maraschino, lemon, and what purple flower-based liquor?
Answer: Crème de violette
63. Toward the top of the pantheon of summer cocktails, a Negroni gets its most bitter kick from what red devil of a liqueur that's described as tasting like orange peel, rhubarb, and bark?
Answer: Campari
64. What four-letter, anise-flavored spirit is considered by many to be the national drink of Greece?
Answer: Ouzo
65. Name the two alcoholic ingredients in the cocktail known as the French 75.
Answer: Gin or Champagne
66. What “N” Italian cocktail is one part gin, one part vermouth rosso, and one part Campari, with an orange peel garnish? It is named after an Italian count who modified the drink into its current form in 1919.
Answer: Negroni
67. What brand of dark rum has trademarked the Dark 'n' Stormy? Technically, any ginger beer drink made with another rum can't be called a Dark 'n' Stormy.
Answer: Gosling's
68. A Red Snapper is a spin on a Bloody Mary that uses which spirit instead of vodka?
Answer: Gin
69. A mixture of lemonade and iced tea is an Arnold Palmer. Spike it with vodka and it becomes a drink named after what golfer who won PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 1991?
Answer: John Daly
70. What German digestif contains 56 herbs, spices, fruits, and roots, including licorice, which gives it its distinctive taste?
Answer: Jägermeister
71. What cocktail, originating in the 1920s, is gin mixed with fresh lemon juice and your choice of Cointreau or Combier? It gets its name from its optional use of a dash of egg whites, making it resemble a female Caucasian to some people.
Answer: White Lady
72. What’s the sweet-sounding name for a sour cocktail made with vodka, triple sec, simple syrup, and the juice of a yellow citrus fruit?
Answer: Lemon Drop
73. What is the clear, colorless liquor from Korea that has an alcohol content that varies from about 16.8% to 53% alcohol by volume (ABV)?
Answer: Soju
74. To be labeled as bourbon, a whiskey must be distilled from a mash that is at least 51 percent made of what grain?
Answer: Corn
75. Sometimes called a Gin Gin Mule, what cocktail described as a gin-heavy mix between a Moscow Mule and a Mojito shares its name with the actress who danced with Fred Astaire, and won an Oscar for “Kitty Foyle?”
Answer: Ginger Rogers
76. What cocktail is Reposado tequila mixed with ginger beer, lime juice, and creme de cassis? You will have a devil of a time drinking this Spanish-named beverage.
Answer: El Diablo
77. The name of what liqueur, which comes in yellow and green varieties, comes from the "charter house" of the French monks who have made it since the 17th century?
Answer: Chartreuse
78. In the mid-2000s, a New York bartender named Sam Ross came up with a cocktail with scotch, lemon, and honey-ginger syrup. It may not cure what ails ya, but which famous medicine did he name the drink after?
Answer: Penicillin
79. A Bay Breeze cocktail is made with pineapple juice, cranberry juice, and which alcohol?
Answer: Vodka
80. What is the four-letter name of the startup co-founded by "Pretty Little Liars" star Shay Mitchell, that focuses on canned cocktails and specifically on sparkling tequila drinks?
Answer: Onda
81. What Spanish wine cocktail made with red wine and citrus soda has a name which translates to "red wine of summer"?
Answer: Tinto de Verano
82. What cocktail, named after a famous New Orleans neighborhood, has rye whiskey, cognac, and vermouth among its ingredients?
Answer: Vieux Carre
83. According to the International Bartenders Association, the recipe for what cocktails is 30ml cognac, 30ml creme de cacao and 30ml fresh cream?
Answer: Brandy Alexander
84. I'll take mine to go! What company's Club Cocktails, originating in 1892, were the first pre-mixed, bottled cocktails sold in America?
Answer: Heublein
85. Although there were precursors in various places, the first written mention of rum (or "rumbullion") was in a 1651 document from what Caribbean island?
Answer: Barbados
86. Two cocktails—one with gin, Triple Sec, Lillet Blanc, and absinthe, the other with gin and ginger beer—share what name? It might make you think of San Francisco.
Answer: Foghorn
87. The best selling liquor in the world by volume is a clear, colorless alcohol called soju that comes from what Asian nation?
Answer: Korea
88. What alliterative cocktail, made of rum, lime juice, and sugar cane, originated in Jamaica but is named for a hotel in Charleston, South Carolina?
Answer: Planters Punch
89. "Antoine" was the first name of what Creole apothecary from Saint-Domingue who introduced New Orleans (and the world) to a gentian-based bitters still in use in cocktails today?
Answer: Peychaud
90. Also an English singing group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, what is the alternative names for a mimosa?
Answer: Buck's Fizz
91. Leaving everything to chance, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia have instituted what sort of system to let consumers and retailers have a chance at getting a bottle of the prized, rare Pappy Van Winkle bourbon?
Answer: Lottery
92. A cocktail made of gin, crème de violette, dry vermouth, and absinthe, shares a name with what comedic play, which also premiered in 1941, and which was later made into a film starring Cary Grant and Boris Karloff?
Answer: Arsenic and Old Lace
93. The "Bramble" is a cocktail made from dry gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, and crème de mure, a liqueur flavored with what fruit, which is also sometimes added as a garnish?
Answer: Blackberries
94. What gin-based cocktail is made with lemon juice, simple syrup, and club soda?
Answer: Tom Collins
95. In 2019, a bottle of 60-year-old single malt Scotch from 1926 made by what distillery was sold for $1.512 million?
Answer: Macallan
96. Gin is believed to have been developed from what Dutch and Belgian liquor, created when juniper berries were added to soften the taste of distilled malt wine?
Answer: Jenever
97. What Scandinavian liquor similar to vodka has flavor notes primarily of dill and caraway?
Answer: Aquavit
98. What horticultural word can either describe a cocktail made from rum or brandy, sugar, and citrus fruit rind, or a cocktail made of spirits and vinegared syrup?
Answer: Shrub
99. What popular Japanese spirit, whose name comes from a Chinese word meaning "burned liquor," is often distilled from rice, barley, sweet potatoes, buckwheat, or brown sugar, and is typically stronger than sake?
Answer: Shochu
100. What classic Cuban cocktail, created in the 1920s and named after political figure Gerardo Machado, is composed of white rum, orange curaçao, dry vermouth, and grenadine?
Answer: El Presidente
101. Brandy, orange liqueur, and lemon juice are the key ingredients needed to create what vehicular-inspired cocktail?
Answer: Sidecar
102. What fruit juice do you mix with gin or vodka to make a “salty dog?” (Hint: If you don’t salt the rim of the glass, it’s a Greyhound.).
Answer: Grapefruit
103. The simple rum and Coke cocktail is also known by what two-word name that contains the name of an island nation?
Answer: Cuba Libre
104. What tiki cocktail consists of lime, lemon, pineapple juice, passion fruit syrup, Angostura bitters, brown sugar, and rum? It seems like a good drink to have while watching “Night Of The Living Dead.”
Answer: Zombie
105. To officially count as tequila, a spirit must be made of blue agave, and in what Mexican state, home to the town of Tequila as well as the metropolis of Guadalajara?
Answer: Jalisco
106. A Harvey Wallbanger comprises Galliano, vodka, and which fruit juice?
Answer: Orange juice
107. Taking a shot of whiskey and immediately chugging a beer is a "recipe" for what drink named because it was once served to workers ending their shifts?
Answer: Boilermaker
108. You can turn a famously alcohol-free Shirley Temple into a cocktail (a Shirley Temple Black, which was her married name) by adding a dark (usually barrel-aged) variety of which liquor?
Answer: Rum
109. Often selling for many times its purchase price, the Kentucky bourbon brand Old Rip Van Winkle is often known by what "fatherly" nickname?
Answer: Pappy Van Winkle
110. Though it's often made with artificial ingredients nowadays, grenadine traditionally gets its flavor from what fruit?
Answer: Pomegranate
111. Perfect for a Ladyfinger or a modified Blood and Sand, kirsch or kirschwasser is a clear brandy distilled from what fruit?
Answer: Cherry
112. A pisco sour is made with pisco (of course), lime juice, simple syrup, and what yolk-free component of a balanced breakfast?
Answer: Egg White
113. You'll find various recipes for it online, but the "screaming viking" was originally just a plot line in an episode of what TV sitcom, where many other cocktails were poured throughout its run?
Answer: Cheers
114. El Draque, a predecessor to the mojito and possibly the world's first cocktail, was named in honor of which dashing English explorer and privateer?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake
115. Which cocktail made with cachaca, sugar, and lime is the official cocktail of Brazil?
Answer: Caipirinha
116. A sidecar is traditionally made with cognac, triple sec, and a fresh squeeze of which citrus fruit?
Answer: Lemon
117. Inspired by a liqueur produced in the Loire Valley in 17th-century France, Chambord is a liqueur flavored with what fruit?
Answer: Raspberries
118. By French regulations, what distilled spirit must be made with grapes grown within the Charente and Charente-Maritime regions of France, distilled twice in copper pot stills, and aged in either Limousin or Tronçais oak barrels for at least two years?
Answer: Cognac
119. A cocktail made of equal parts cognac and amaretto is named for what 1972 Best Picture winning film, even though one of the required ingredients is actually Italian?
Answer: French Connection
120. The Vesper cocktail was named after Vesper Lynd, a character James Bond falls for in the 1953 book Casino Royale. It is made with vodka, Kina Lillet liqueur, and what other floral tasting liquor?
Answer: Gin
121. A cocktail of rum, grapefruit juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and maraschino liqueur is a "daiquiri" named for what American author?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
122. Made from lager, lemonade, and grenadine, what French beer cocktail gets its name from the red-and-white flag of a teeny neighboring country?
Answer: Monaco
123. "Discover the Red Passion" is an advertising slogan used by what brand of bitter Italian herbal liqueur?
Answer: Campari
124. Artemisia absinthium is the binomial name of a plant used as an ingredient in absinthe. What is the common name of this plant, sometimes thought to derive from its ancient use to treat intestinal worms?
Answer: Wormwood
125. Match a dark beer (usually Guinness Stout) with champagne and you get what cocktail that shares a name with a Grammy-winning song by Canadian singer Alannah Myles?
Answer: Black Velvet
126. What IBA official cocktail did Audrey Saunders call “a Mojito in a little black dress” when she came up with it? (Hint: Despite its name, it made its debut in NYC not the Caribbean.)
Answer: Old Cuban
127. Invented during the prohibition era, what cocktail, whose name most people want in an argument, is made of Chartreuse, gin, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice?
Answer: The Last Word
128. Tequila is made from blue agave, while what other closely-related spirit can be made from any type of agave?
Answer: Mezcal
129. Also the name of a tool with a screw point for boring holes, what classic cocktail consists of gin, lime juice, and simple syrup?
Answer: Gimlet
130. Produced in Japan and having no relation to coffee despite the sound of its name, Nikka Coffey Grain is a brand of what distilled spirit?
Answer: Whiskey
131. Along with rum, lime juice, and sugar, what liqueur makes up a Parisian Daiquiri? The liqueur is made from elderberry flowers.
Answer: St. Germain
132. A Negroni is typically made with gin, sweet vermouth, and Campari. If you replace the gin with bourbon, it becomes what cocktail with a French name?
Answer: Boulevardier
133. Peru and which other South American country have the pisco sour (a cocktail made with grape brandy, powdered sugar, and fresh lemon juice) as their national drink?
Answer: Chile
134. Pusser's Rum holds a copyright on the name of what "feel-good" cocktail, made with pineapple juice, orange juice, cream of coconut, and nutmeg, which is most closely associated with the British Virgin Islands?
Answer: Painkiller
135. Which sweet, pink-red beer cocktail made with grenadine and maraschino cherries shares its name with a British royal who was the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Queen Mary
136. Similar to a Manhattan but with Scotch whiskey instead of bourbon or rye, what classic cocktail is named after a Scottish hero of the 17th century?
Answer: Rob Roy
137. Which champagne cocktail named after the kick from a gun is traditionally made with gin, lemon juice, and sugar? (Hint: If you’re in Paris, you could be extra fancy and order a Soixante Quinze.)
Answer: French 75
138. To keep their scurvy worms sedate, minus rowdy, the Royal Navy prescribed a 4:1 water-to-rum ratio in what pirate-y drink with no relation to Yoda?
Answer: Grog
139. What liqueur made from lingonberries shares a name with the Nordic city that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics? It's also almost the title of a New York gangster in Norway series on Netflix.
Answer: Lillehammer
140. What name of an IBA cocktail made with Drambuie and Scotch whisky is also something you would not want to step barefoot on?
Answer: Rusty Nail
141. Which rum cocktail that reportedly originated in Malaysia in the ‘70s is made with Campari, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, and pineapple juice and can be served in an aviary cage if you’re feeling fancy?
Answer: Jungle Bird
142. What popular Kentucky bourbon distillery gets its name from an ancient pathway, crossing the Kentucky River, created by a particular mammal species that no longer can be found in Kentucky?
Answer: Buffalo Trace
143. The daiquiri, created by a mining engineer named Jennings Stockton Cox, was named after an iron mine in what Caribbean country?
Answer: Cuba
144. What French liqueur is the basis of cocktails such as a Witch's Brew, a PB&J cocktail, and a French Martini, and is sold in an iconic spherical bottle?
Answer: Chambord
145. What fortified wine is made from white grapes grown in the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera?
Answer: Sherry
146. What one-word cocktail, often featuring vodka and coffee liqueur, has a name which sounds like it's a mix between an “M” high quality coffee and a martini?
Answer: Mochatini
147. A key ingredient in a Harvey Wallbanger, what golden-colored, sweet herbal liqueur is named for an Italian army officer who served in the Italo-Ethiopian War?
Answer: Galliano
148. A Goombay Smash is made with coconut rum, OJ, and tropical fruit wedges. Which Caribbean islands is the cocktail from?
Answer: Bahamas
149. A particular liqueur flavored with the rind of the lahara, a variety of bitter orange, is named for what Caribbean island?
Answer: Curacao
150. What two-word cocktail is Fernet-Branca, gin, and vermouth? It shares its name with a song by Tommy James and The Shondells that is a euphemism for romantic activity.
Answer: Hanky Panky
151. What cocktail, whose ingredients include cognac (or rye) and absinthe (or Herbsaint), is the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans?
Answer: Sazerac
152. Laissez les bons temps rouler! What cocktail, made with rye whiskey, Cognac, sweet vermouth, Benedictine liqueur, and bitters, has a name that means "old square" in French and refers to the French Quarter in New Orleans?
Answer: Vieux Carré
153. A horse’s neck is made with brandy or bourbon, ginger ale, and a long peel of which citrus fruit?
Answer: Lemon
154. What 94-proof black spiced rum has entered into a partnership with the Seattle franchise in the National Hockey League?
Answer: Kraken
155. What drink named after a New York City borough is basically a gin martini with orange juice added?
Answer: Bronx Cocktail
156. The California town of Castroville produces four-fifths of the U.S. supply of what veggie, which, among other uses, gives its flavor to the liqueur Cynar?
Answer: Artichokes
157. Which fruity cocktail with cranberry liqueur, apple juice, and a lime wedge has two parts to its name: a hot season and a weather event you’d find refreshing during that season?
Answer: Summer Rain
158. An Angel Face, one of the International Bartender Association's "Unforgettable" official cocktails, is made from gin, apricot brandy, and what French brandy made from apples or pears?
Answer: Calvados
159. What classic and simple cocktail, basically vermouth with a little Russian spirit added, is still popular to this day?
Answer: Vodka Martini
160. Which highball with a Lucy-loving name has been D.C.’s official cocktail since 2011 (which makes sense, as the drink was invented there in the 1880s)?
Answer: Rickey
161. What cocktail can feature dark chocolate, ice, coffee-flavoured liqueur, vodka, Irish cream liqueur, and double cream?
Answer: Mudslide
162. What liqueur, popular in Spanish-speaking countries, is a portmanteau of Spanish words meaning "water" and "fiery," and appears in cocktails like the Cuban Canchanchara?
Answer: Aguardiente
163. What classic Tiki drink is made of pineapple juice, rum, Campari, lime juice, and demerara? It’s supposed to be colorful, like a toucan or a parrot.
Answer: Jungle Bird
164. According to most sources, the Mai Tai was invented at what legendary Oakland establishment also known as the first "tiki bar?"
Answer: Trader Vic's
165. Which brandy cocktail is made with cognac, sugar syrup, and mint leaves, and has a name that makes it sound like it’ll really pack a punch?
Answer: Brandy Smash
166. What cocktail, often standardized as being one part dark rum, one part vodka, and one part orange juice, was originally produced as a premixed bottled beverage, and inspired a 1986 hip-hop song by the trio of MCA, Ad-Rock and Mike D?
Answer: Brass Monkey
167. Which group of brandy cocktails with a floral name is traditionally made with a spirit, syrup (like gomme), curaçao liqueur, lemon juice, and fizzy water? (Hint: In Professor Thomas’ original, he liked to add a dash of rum.)
Answer: Daisy
168. The Hanky Panky and the Fernandito are two cocktails made with what Italian amaro, made from a collection of herbs usually including saffron?
Answer: Fernet
169. Mix gin, chartreuse, lime, and maraschino liqueur into what kind of two-word cocktail from the prohibition era?
Answer: Last Word
170. Gin, lemon juice, Cointreau, Kina Lillet or Cocchi Americano, and a splash of absinthe are the ingredients to the "#2" version of what cocktail, associated with London's Savoy Hotel (and not any nearby graveyards)?
Answer: Corpse Reviver
171. What mixed drink, popular in South Africa, is made from mixing soda water, lemonade, Angostura bitters, fresh lemon, and ice?
Answer: Rock Shandy
172. Which cocktail made with white rum, pineapple juice, grenadine, and Maraschino liqueur (and a cherry) is named for the most famous actress of the silent film era?
Answer: Mary Pickford
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