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-------------------------------------------------- From: "Jan" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:38 PM To: "Recipes" <[email protected]> Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Food Trivia Quiz > > Food Trivia Quiz > FoodReference.com > 1) You are walking through a field, and you find something to eat. It > doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put it > into your pocket. You take it home and put it on the shelf, but three > days later it walks away. > What is this curious food? > > 2) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year > was it? * In January Hershey Chocolate increases the size of the Hershey > Bar from 1.05 oz to 1.2 oz, and in December to 1.35 oz. * Water > rationing goes into effect in Marin County north of San Francisco. * > Iceland breaks diplomatic relations with Britain over cod fishing > rights. * Both Washington and Moscow extend their fishing rights to 200 > miles offshore. * The FDA bans Red No. 2 Dye, the most commonly used > food coloring. * Perrier Water is introduced in the U.S. * New York's > "21" Club hires its first waitress to settle a sex discrimination > lawsuit. > > 3) What movie used chocolate syrup for blood in a famous shower scene? > > 4) What was the first movie to show a toilet flushing? > Hint: The character who flushed it was Marion Crane. > > 5) Shark attacks kill fewer then 20 people each year. How many sharks > are killed by humans each year? > > 6) The reddish orange flesh of this tropical plant root has been used in > cooking since 600 B.C. It is native to the Orient and now can be found > in India and the Caribbean. It was used in biblical times as a perfume > but now it is commonly used to flavor and color food. The root is > typically boiled or steamed and then dried and ground into a powder. > Can you name this root used as a spice? > > 7) The Mango is the most popular fruit world wide, but do you know what > fruit is grown on more acreage than any other? > > 8) What is the most popular berry in the U.S.? > (This is a trick question.) > > 9) I am a tall tropical evergreen tree of the mulberry family, native to > the Malay Archipelago, and found throughout the South Pacific since > prehistoric times. I can grow to a height of 60 feet or more and I am > closely related to the jackfruit and the Osage orange. > > My round, green, bumpy fruit, 8 to 10 inches in diameter, is rarely > eaten raw, but is used cooked as a vegetable. It can be prepared using > any of the methods used for potatoes (baked, roasted, fried, mashed, > stuffed, etc). Most people agree that my fruit is both an acquired taste > and texture. It is considered a staple food in many of the Pacific > islands. > > Cloth is made from my bark, and canoes and furniture from my wood. The > milky juice that flows when my stem is cut, is used for glue and to > waterproof canoes. What am I? > > 10) If you walked into a classic lunch counter or diner and said: > "Squeeze a full house seaboard" what would you get? > > Answers > > 1) An egg. > > 2) All of the events took place in 1976. > > 3) Chocolate syrup was used for the blood in the famous shower scene in > the Alfred Hitchcock movie 'Psycho'. The scene lasts for about 45 > seconds in the movie, but took 7 days to film. > > 4) The Alfred Hitchcock film 'Psycho' was the first film to show a > toilet flushing. The character Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) was shown > flushing a toilet with a torn up paper swirling in the water. > > 5) The best estimates are that 26 to 73 million* sharks are killed each > year worldwide, many of them for their fins - shark-fin soup is a staple > at Chinese celebrations and a popular item on Chinese menus. > *(Some put the number as low as 10 million and others as high as 100 > million). > > 6) Turmeric. > > 7) Grapes are grown on about 25 million acres worldwide, with most of > the grapes being turned into wine. > > 8) The Banana. Botanically, the banana is classified as a berry. > > 9) Breadfruit. > > 10) A grilled cheese, bacon and tomato sandwich to go, in a hurry. > "squeeze it" means make it fast. > "full house" is a grilled cheese, bacon, and tomato sandwich. > "seaboard" means make it to go. > > Courtesy of FoodReference.com. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
