Did you know October is National Pizza Month in the United States? In October 1984, Gerry Durnell, the publisher of Pizza Today magazine created National Pizza Month. Many people celebrate by eating different types of pizzas or pizza slices or going to various pizzerias. With the pandemic still in full swing, contact free delivery of your favorite pies or getting creative in the kitchen might be your best options. To help you get into the spirit, we’ve devised this quiz about pizza. How much do you know about one of the most popular foods in America?

Answers to this quiz are contained in the last article of this issue, Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – November 2020. You can also click on this link,

Word Bank: (not all words will be used)

Pizza Hut edible gold 38%

Little Caesar’s Truffles 6%

Domino’s Pizza Champagne-soaked 17%

Christmas Eve Florence, Italy 62%

Super Bowl Sunday Boston, Massachusetts 41%

Valentine’s Day Rome, Italy 1825

New Year’s Eve Arturo’s 1895

New Year’s Day Giovanni’s 1830

Halloween Lombardi’s Beluga

Boxing Day sausage pizza Pineapple

Plain cheese pizza Basil leaves Chicken

The night before Halloween Margherita pizza shrimp

Vegetables Pepperoni lamb

Fruit mushroom Tofu

7.04 billion 965 million 38 billion

Philly cheesesteak prociutto onion

Burrata cheese artichoke eggplant

Americans eat 3 billion pizzas per year, for a total of $__________________ spent by Americans annually on pizza.
What percentage of restaurants in the U.S. are pizzerias? _______
The world's first true pizzeria is thought to be "Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba" which opened in __________ in Naples, Italy and it is still in business today.
According to the Pizza Hall of Fame, the first pizzeria in the United States is ______________ located in the Nolita neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City. It first opened in 1905.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2020) The current world record for the largest pizza has a total surface area of 1,261.65 m² (13,580.28 ft²) and was prepared at Fiera Roma, in ___________________, on 13 December 2012.
A __________________ is the most ordered pizza in America.
__________________ is the most ordered topping in America.
Name 5 pizza toppings from the word-bank that would not commonly be found on a pizza in Italy - __________, __________, __________, __________, __________.
Name 5 pizza toppings from the word-bank that are commonly found on a pizza in Italy - __________, __________, __________, __________, __________.
With sales worth approximately 7.04 billion U.S. dollars, _______________________ was the leading pizza restaurant chain in the United States in 2019.
According to a Technomic study, _____________of American consumers eat pizza at least once per month.
The top 5 pizza sales days are: _____________ ___________________ _______________ ____________________ and _____________________________.
_______ of Americans prefer meat toppings while ________ prefer vegetables.
The most expensive pizza created was made by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla who created a $2,745.00 priced Valentine pizza which included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, medallions of venison, ______________, lobster marinated in the finest cognac and __________________ caviar.
Women are twice as likely as men to order _________________ on their pizza.