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CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONS

ANSWERS ARE BELOW   (A New quiz every day)

TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· The American Guernsey Cattle Club was founded
· New York passed a law to tax 'oleomargarine,' to protect dairymen and real butter.
· Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as 19th president of the U.S.  His wife Lucy refuses to permit intoxicating beverages to be served at the White House.
· Henry Crowell began using the 'Quaker Man' as a trademark at his mill in Ravenna, Ohio.

2) Dr. Jonas Salk used a food service machine in his laboratory while he was working on the Salk Polio vaccine.
Can you name the specific machine he used?

3) This fruit is a cross between a grapefruit and a mandarin orange, and is probably a natural hybrid originating in Jamaica. The fruit has a descriptive name and is about the size of a small grapefruit, but sweeter.  Name this fruit.
 


 

ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:

1) All of the events took place in 1877.
  (Food History Timeline: 1875-1879)

2) The Waring Blender was used by Dr. Jonas Salk in his laboratory while he was working on the Salk Polio Vaccine.

3) ‘Ugli fruit’ is a trademark name for this fruit that originated in Jamaica, most likely as a natural hybrid. It supposedly originated near Brown’s Town in 1914, and was cultivated by F. G. Sharp at Trout Hall, and marketed by his son in the early 1930s.
 

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