# 🥫 Spam (Canned Meat) Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What company originally created Spam?  
**Answer:** Hormel Foods  
**Taglines:**  
- The House that Meat Goo Built  
- Hormel: making meat mystery mainstream  
- When you want meat and jello in one bite  
- You trusted them... and they canned it  
- Thanks, Hormel. We think.  

### 2. In what year was Spam first introduced?  
**Answer:** 1937  
**Taglines:**  
- Pre-WWII meat innovation  
- Just in time to feed a world at war  
- 1937: when meat got immortal  
- Born in the Depression, lives in your cupboard  
- The original Y2K prepper  

### 3. What two main meats are used in Spam?  
**Answer:** Pork and ham  
**Taglines:**  
- Ham meets pork meets science  
- Pig twice, just to be sure  
- Your daily sodium and identity crisis  
- Double pig, double mystery  
- The oinkiest combo  

### 4. What state is most famously associated with high Spam consumption?  
**Answer:** Hawaii  
**Taglines:**  
- Aloha and aloha again, Spam  
- Island vibes and meat cubes  
- Hawaii said yes... repeatedly  
- Spam musubi > your avocado toast  
- Tropical Spam-pathy  

### 5. What does the name “Spam” *officially* stand for?  
**Answer:** It’s never been clearly defined (often said to be “spiced ham”)  
**Taglines:**  
- Secret Processed Ambiguous Meat  
- Your guess is as good as theirs  
- SPAM: Still Probably A Mystery  
- Name unknown, taste unforgettable  
- Just eat and don’t ask questions  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Spam became a staple for U.S. soldiers during ______.  
**Answer:** World War II  
**Taglines:**  
- The war was rough—then they got Spam  
- Trench food with a jingle  
- Spam: rations with ambition  
- Served with patriotism and regret  
- GIs ate it, civilians feared it  

### 2. Spam is often sold in distinctive ______ cans.  
**Answer:** Blue  
**Taglines:**  
- Blue can, red flags  
- The tin that time forgot  
- Iconic packaging, questionable contents  
- Navy color, meat mystery  
- Looks harmless, opens aggressively  

### 3. Spam’s gelatinous layer is often called ______.  
**Answer:** Aspic  
**Taglines:**  
- Meat Jell-O for the bold  
- Nature’s no-thank-you sauce  
- Aspic: where flavor fears to tread  
- The slick that time forgot  
- Gelatinous guilt  

### 4. The town of Austin, ______, is home to the Spam Museum.  
**Answer:** Minnesota  
**Taglines:**  
- Where Spam is history, not horror  
- America’s meat Mecca  
- Tourists beware, Spam ahead  
- Minnesota: now with flavor?  
- Spam: the pride of the prairie  

### 5. Spam is a cultural favorite in which East Asian country?  
**Answer:** South Korea  
**Taglines:**  
- Served with kimchi and confusion  
- K-Pop meets K-Pork  
- Spam gift sets are a thing  
- Korea said “Yes please”  
- Oppa Spam style  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] How many ingredients are in classic Spam?  
A) 3  
B) 6 ✅  
C) 9  
D) 12  
**Taglines:**  
- Simple... suspiciously simple  
- 6 reasons to say “why?”  
- Less is questionable  
- Ingredient mystery box  
- Eat it, don’t Google it  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What is the main preservative in Spam?  
A) Salt ✅  
B) Vinegar  
C) Sugar  
D) Lemon juice  
**Taglines:**  
- Salt: the ancient food wizard  
- Sodium levels: critical  
- Why chew when you can dehydrate?  
- Seasoned with fear  
- Salty, just like this trivia  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] Spam is often featured in a Hawaiian dish called:  
A) Kalua Pork  
B) Poke  
C) Musubi ✅  
D) Loco Moco  
**Taglines:**  
- Sushi’s weird cousin  
- Spam wrapped like a gift... from the pantry  
- Rice, seaweed, meat cube—voilà  
- Roll it, slice it, question it  
- Hawaii’s comfort cube  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] In Monty Python’s famous “Spam” sketch, the word “Spam” is repeated how many times?  
A) 14  
B) 37  
C) 100+ ✅  
D) 59  
**Taglines:**  
- Sketch comedy meets meat obsession  
- Repetition is the comedy... and the horror  
- Spam! Spam! Spam! (repeat forever)  
- They said it until your ears salted over  
- The sketch that launched a meme  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Spam became part of the official menu in which U.S. military branch?  
A) Army  
B) Navy  
C) Marines  
D) All of the above ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- Spam for all, whether they liked it or not  
- Unified under pork product  
- Troop rations = Spam station  
- Equal opportunity can  
- One meat to feed them all
