Origins of Pizza
Regional Pizza Styles
Unique Pizza Ingredients
Pizza Around the World
Pizza Legends and Lore
100

This type of pizza was created to honor Queen Margherita of Savoy.

What is Margherita pizza? 

100

This city is famous for its deep-dish pizza, first created in 1943.

What is Chicago?

100

Instead of sugar, Beau Jo's pizzeria uses this ingredient to flavor their dough

What is honey?

100

This type of "Mexican pizza" from Oaxaca uses a large corn tortilla as its base.

What is tlayuda?

100

The story goes that this chef created the Margherita pizza to honor an Italian queen.

Who is Raffaele Esposito?

200

This ingredient was added to pizza by Raffaele Esposito to represent the white color of the Italian flag.

What is mozzarella?

200

This type of pizza features large, foldable slices and was developed in the "big apple" 

What is New York-style pizza?

200

Khachapuri from Georgia often includes this dairy product in its filling.

What is cheese? 

200

This pizza variation from Naples is folded and portable, often containing various cheeses and meats.

What is a calzone?

200

Lombardi's, America's first pizzeria, opened in this year

What is 1905? 

300

Vincenzo Corrado described the marinara pizza as having these three main ingredients.

What are tomato sauce, garlic, and basil leaves?

300

This city's pizza is known for its thick, fluffy crust baked in steel pans from auto plants.

What is Detroit?

300

The matzah pizza is typically made during this Jewish holiday.

What is Passover? 

300

This dish from Catalonia, Spain, can be savory or sweet and is similar to pizza

What is coca? 

300

This Chicago pizzeria is franchised worldwide but originally called Pizzeria Uno

What is Uno Chicago Grill?

400

In what year did Raffaele Esposito create the Margherita pizza?


What is 1889?

400

Pizza al taglio and pizza Romana tonda are associated with this Italian city.

What is Rome?

400

This ingredient in New York City’s water supply is believed to give New York-style pizza its unique texture.

What are minerals? 

400

This Scottish variation involves frying a frozen pizza in oil.

What is deep-fried pizza?

400

This chef is said to have claimed that Bonci's pizza in Rome was worth abandoning one's children for.

Who is Anthony Bourdain?

500

This early 18th-century chronicler described the Neapolitan pizza

Who is Vincenzo Corrado?

500

Beau Jo's pizzeria in this state is known for its style pizza with braided crust and honey in the dough.

What is Colorado?

500

This type of sausage is a common topping on Beau Jo's Colorado-style pizza.

What is andouille sausage?

500

This "street food" pizza from Poland uses a baguette as its base.

What is zapiekanka?

500

In the early 1970s, this Polish "street food" was created due to supply chain issues in communist Poland.

What is zapiekanka?