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:
- What is the main ingredient in a Margarita?
- What is the most popular cocktail in the world?
- Who invented the Martini?
- What is the traditional garnish for a Manhattan cocktail?
- What is the process of distillation?
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.
156 Cocktail & Alcohol Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Which cocktail that originates in Puerto Rico has a name that translates as “strained pineapple?”
Answer: Piña colada
- 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
- 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
- Cocktails like the Tequila Sunrise and Queen Mary call for what specific type of cherry, sweetened and preserved in syrup?
Answer: Maraschino
- 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
- According to the International Bartenders Association (IBA), 5 cl of Rye Whiskey, 2 cl of sweet red vermouth, and a dash or Angostura bitters are the ingredients in what cocktail, which is named for a New York City borough?
Answer: Manhattan
- Israel’s popular sabra liqueur is chocolate with hints of what citrus fruit?
Answer: Orange
- What alcoholic spirit is found in all three of these cocktails: Gimlet, Aviation, and Tom Collins?
Answer: Gin
- 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
- 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
- The Austin-based bourbon distiller Nine Banded Whiskey is named for what nine-banded little armored critters that appear on their logos?
Answer: Armadillos
- The famous martini becomes a cocktail known as a Gibson when the olive is replaced with what other tearful garnish?
Answer: Cocktail onion
- 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
- 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
- The oldest still-operating brewery in the world has been producing alcoholic beverages since 1040. The company is named for its home region Weihenstephan, located in what country?
Answer: Germany
- 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 which shares its name with a brewery in Portland?
Answer: Hair of the Dog
- Give one to your teacher: Szarlotka Is a cocktail widely drunk in Poland which features vodka, as well as the juice of which non-citrus fruit?
Answer: Apple
- Heineken owns Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery, the parent company of what beer repped by "The Most Interesting Man in the World"?
Answer: Dos Equis
- 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
- 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
- Henieken Tarwebok is a discontinued bock beer that was previously produced by its namesake brewer. Bock is a term for a beer that is a strong lager with origins in what country?
Answer: Germany
- Three monosyllabic creatures collectively and repeatedly uttered the name "Budweiser" in a famous 1995 Super Bowl commercial. What type of animals were these pseudo-mascots?
Answer: Frogs
- 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
- A Bellini is made with Prosecco and the nectar or puree of which fruit?
Answer: Peach
- What “Y” beer company is the oldest operating brewing company in the US, originating in Pottsville, PA in 1829? Their products include an Original Black And Tan, as well as FLIGHT.
Answer: Yuengling
- 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
- What future "Mission: Impossible" star plays bartender Brian Flanagan in the 1988 movie "Cocktail?"
Answer: Tom Cruise
- What cocktail, commonly served with brunch, is of French origin and was first served at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1925?
Answer: Mimosa
- A Buttery Nipple requires Irish cream and what flavor of schnapps?
Answer: Butterscotch
- Buzz Beer is the alcoholic beverage brand of choice of the show’s title character and his Cleveland-based friends Oswald Lee Harvey and Lewis Kiniski on what mid-‘90s ABC sitcom starring the current host of “The Price Is Right?”
Answer: “The Drew Carey Show”
- Harpoon in Boston, Sand Creek in Wisconsin, and O'Fallon in Missouri all have a chocolate-flavored product which is what type of beer?
Answer: Stout
- 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
- 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
- The Caipirinha, a cocktail made of cachaca, sugar, and lime, is the national cocktail of what South American country?
Answer: Brazil
- 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
- Opened in 1864, Heineken's first brewery was named for what needle-hiding things that Van Gogh and Monet were fond of painting?
Answer: Haystacks
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Over the two days of Kentucky Derby weekend, Churchill Downs Racetrack sells approximately 120,000 of what bourbon-based cocktail?
Answer: Mint julep
- Crown Royal whiskey is produced in what country with QE2 on their $20 bill?
Answer: Canada
- Famously, a White Russian is The Dude's cocktail of choice in what classic 1998 Coen Brothers comedy film?
Answer: The Big Lebowski
- 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
- What brand of Tennessee whiskey is produced in a dry county, and therefore, cannot be sold where it is made?
Answer: Jack Daniel's
- Created in 1990s at Lola’s West Hollywood restaurant, an appletini includes which liquid as its primary alcoholic ingredient?
Answer: Vodka
- 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
- A Red Snapper is a spin on a Bloody Mary that uses which spirit instead of vodka?
Answer: Gin
- What Swiss cinnamon schnapps has actual flakes of gold floating in it?
Answer: Goldschlager
- 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
- 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
- An Aviation cocktail includes gin, maraschino, lemon, and what purple flower-based liquor?
Answer: Crème de Violette
- What four-letter, anise-flavored spirit is considered by many to be the national drink of Greece?
Answer: Ouzo
- What is the name for a drink consisting of espresso diluted with hot water, or a cocktail containing Campari and sweet vermouth?
Answer: Americano
- Name one of the two alcoholic ingredients in the cocktail known as the French 75.
Answer: Gin or Champagne
- 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
- 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
- Cognac and Pisco are examples of which liquor that’s made by distilling wine?
Answer: Brandy
- 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
- Tiger Beer is a popular brand of beer owned and distributed by Heineken but founded in what Asian city-state? The brand is considered one of the ten most valuable brands in its homeland.
Answer: Singapore
- 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
- 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
- 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
- To be labeled as bourbon, a whiskey must be distilled from a mash that is at least 51 % made of what grain?
Answer: corn
- 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
- The name of what liqueur, which you can get in yellow and green varieties, comes from the "charter house" of the French monks who have made it since the 17th century?
Answer: Chartreuse
- 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
- A Bay Breeze cocktail is made with pineapple juice, cranberry juice, and which alcohol?
Answer: Vodka
- 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
- 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
- What cocktail, named after a famous New Orleans neighborhood, has rye whiskey, cognac, and vermouth among its ingredients?
Answer: Vieux Carre
- According to the International Bartenders Association (IBA), the recipe for what cocktails is 30ml cognac, 30ml creme de cacao, and 30ml fresh cream?
Answer: Brandy Alexander
- 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
- 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
- Two cocktails—one with gin, Triple Sec, Lillet Blanc, and absinthe, the other with gin and ginger beer—share what name which might make you think of San Francisco?
Answer: Foghorn
- The best-selling liquor in the world by volume is a clear, colorless alcohol called soju that comes from what Asian nation?
Answer: Korea
- 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
- "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
- 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
- Leaving everything to chance, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia have instituted what sort of a system to let consumers and retailers have a chance at getting a bottle of the prized, rare, Pappy Van Winkle bourbon?
Answer: Lottery
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Brandy, orange liqueur, and lemon juice are the key ingredients needed to create what vehicular-inspired cocktail?
Answer: Sidecar
- 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
- What country debuted a new visitor center in 2023 dedicated to exploring 1000 years of beer production, including breweries like Chimay and Duvel?
Answer: Belgium
- To officially count as tequila, a spirit must be made of blue agave, which you'll lfind in what Mexican state that's home to the town of Tequila, as well as the metropolis of Guadalajara?
Answer: Jalisco
- A Harvey Wallbanger comprises Galliano, vodka and which fruit juice?
Answer: Orange juice
- What German digestif contains 56 herbs, spices, fruits, and roots, including licorice, which gives it its distinctive taste?
Answer: Jägermeister
- Along with rum, lime juice, and sugar, what liqueur makes up a Parisian Daiquiri? The liqueur is made from elderberry flowers.
Answer: St. Germain
- 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
- Though it's often made with artificial ingredients nowadays, grenadine traditionally gets its flavor from what fruit?
Answer: Pomegranate
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Inspired by a liqueur produced in the Loire Valley in 17th-century France, Chambord is a liqueur flavored with what fruit?
Answer: Raspberries
- "Discover the Red Passion" is an advertising slogan used by what brand of bitter Italian herbal liqueur?
Answer: Campari
- 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
- Which cocktail made with cachaca, sugar, and lime is the official cocktail of Brazil?
Answer: Caipirinha
- Perfect for a Ladyfinger or a modified Blood and Sand, kirsch or kirschwasser is a clear brandy distilled from what fruit?
Answer: Cherry
- A cocktail of rum, grapefruit juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and maraschino liqueur is a "daiquiri" named for what American author?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
- A sidecar is traditionally made with cognac, triple sec, and a fresh squeeze of which citrus fruit?
Answer: Lemon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The competition that shocked the wine world in 1976 (when California wines beat out their French counterparts) is often called the Judgment of (What City)?
Answer: Paris
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Skopsko is a Heineken beer that is the most popular beer in what European country that was formerly part of Yugoslavia? The country had a public dispute with an area in Greece over naming rights for nearly two decades before being resolved by a mediator in 2019.
Answer: North Macedonia
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The daiquiri, created by a mining engineer named Jennings Stockton Cox, was named after an iron mine in what Caribbean country?
Answer: Cuba
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What fortified wine is made from white grapes grown the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera?
Answer: Sherry
- 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
- A Goombay Smash is made with coconut rum, OJ, and tropical fruit wedges. Which Caribbean islands is the cocktail from?
Answer: Bahamas
- 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
- What cocktail, whose ingredients include cognac (or rye) and absinthe (or Herbsaint) is the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans?
Answer: Sazerac
- 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
- What type of beer is sometimes called a "dark lager," with Köstritzer being a well-known brewer of the style?
Answer: Schwarzbier
- 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
- A horse’s neck is made with brandy or bourbon, ginger ale, and a long peel of which citrus fruit?
Answer: Lemon
- The California town of Castroville produces four-fifths of the U.S. supply of what veggie, that, among other uses, gives its flavor to the liqueur Cynar?
Answer: Artichokes
- 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
- What classic and simple cocktail, basically vermouth with a little Russian spirit added, is still popular to this day?
Answer: Vodka Martini
- 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
- What cocktail can feature dark chocolate, ice, coffee-flavored liqueur, vodka, Irish cream liqueur, and double cream?
Answer: Mudslide
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mix gin, chartreuse, lime, and maraschino liqueur into what kind of two-word cocktail from the prohibition era? We're looking for TWO words here. Hint: One might win an argument by having this.
Answer: Last Word
- 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
- 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
- What mixed drink, popular in South Africa, is made from mixing soda water, lemonade, Angostura bitters, fresh lemon, and ice?
Answer: Rock Shandy
- 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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