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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?
· William K. Vanderbilt acquired 'Gilmore's Garden' in New York City and renamed it 'Madison Square Garden.'
· Forty Three breweries were operating in the Brooklyn area of New York.
· The Hotel Men’s Mutual Benefit Association of United States and Canada was founded.
· Nestle produced its first chocolate bar.

2) What is 'cream of tartar'?

3) What vegetable of the marrow family takes its name from a medieval French word meaning "cooked by the sun."

4) Which state has the turkey as its state game bird, and has the largest per acre population of wild turkeys?

5) In April, 2001, Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni and Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield brought some luxury food items with them to the International Space Station.
Can you name these luxury foods?
 


 

ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:

1) All of the events took place in 1879.
  (Food History Timeline: 1875-1879)

2) Cream of tartar is a white, acid powder that is precipitated onto the walls of casks used to age wine.

3) Pumpkin, from the medieval French 'pompom', ultimately, probably from the Greek 'pepon.'

4) Alabama.

5) Regiano Parmesan cheese and Canadian salmon.

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