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CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONS

ANSWERS ARE BELOW   (A New quiz every day)

TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ

QUESTIONS

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· A World Record for a champagne pyramid was set at a Dubai hotel. composed of 54,740 glasses, 27 feet high.
· The last street payphone in New York City was removed today from outside 745 7th Avenue.
· America’s Last Howard Johnson’s Restaurant closed. It was located in Lake George, New York.
· Kraft Macaroni & Cheese announced it has shortened the brand’s name to Kraft Mac & Cheese
· Domino's Pizza closed all of its stores in Italy after 7 years of trying to win over locals. 
· The U.N. estimates that world population is now 8 billion people.

2) How do botanists classify the eggplant?

3) A staple of the Incas and the Aztecs, this pseudo-grain has been grown for thousands of years. The kernels are tiny—about 4,000 per teaspoon—but their nutritional impact is big.  It contains more protein, iron, potassium, phosphorous and magnesium than other grains and is a great source of the amino acid lysine.
Name this plant.

4) This drink was supposedly created at the request of Lady Randolph Churchill (Sir Winston Churchill's mother), while she was entertaining politician Samuel J. Tilden at a club in New York City in 1874.
Name this drink and the club.

5) These trees are hardy, drought resistant and long lived (100 years plus) but the fruit is highly perishable and for full-flavor must be tree ripened. The fresh ripe fruit are very soft and do not ship well. Less than 10% are sold fresh; most of the crop being canned, dried or used in preserves.  In Latin, the name means 'precious,' a label earned because it ripens earlier than other summer fruits.  Name this fruit.
 


 

ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:

1) All of the events took place in 2022.
  (Food History Timeline: 2020-2025)

2) Eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.

3) Amaranth.

4) The name of the drink and the name of the club is The Manhattan.

5) The Apricot.
 

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