CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONSANSWERS ARE BELOW (A New quiz every day) TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· Federal taxes on oleomargarine (margarine) ended.
· James Dean appears in a Pepsi Cola commercial, his first paid acting job.
· Of gainfully employed persons, 11 percent were engaged in agriculture.
· The first credit card, the Diners Club was created. 2) In 1850, there were an estimated 20 million head of buffalo on the western plains. How many head of longhorn cattle shared the prairie with them? 3) What did Millard Fillmore and his wife Abigail do that caused the White House cooks to quit in protest? 4) What was the first fresh fruit to carry a trademark? What implement was used to mark the first fruit?
ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:1) All of the events took place in 1950.
(Food History Timeline: 1946-1950) 2) Open-range longhorn cattle herds are estimated at 50 million head in 1850. 3) They installed the first cooking stove in the White House. Previous to this, cooking was done in a fireplace. The president had to get an expert from the Patent Office show the cooks how to regulate the heat on the new stove before they would return to work. 4) In 1919 the California Fruit Growers Exchange burned 'Sunkist' on their oranges. 'Sunkist' was burned into the skin of the first orange with a heated flyswatter. TOP | 
