Food And Drink Trivia Quiz XII

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Take a hot coffee, add sugar, mix it with some Whiskey and top it off with some whipped cream. What do you have?

       a. American Coffee
       b. Spanish Coffee
       c. Irish Coffee
       d. Hawaiian Coffee


What Chinese food is believed to have been created by a Japanese American landscape designer, Makoto Hagiwara, as a way to deliver thank-you notes at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco?

       a. Fortune cookie
       b. Chop Suey
       c. Mu Shu pork
       d. Sushi


Tzatziki is a Greek dish that typically combines yogurt and what gourd vegetable, which is often pollinated by bees?

       a. Watermelon
       b. Cucumber
       c. Squash
       d. Lemon


What flavour is the alcoholic beverage "Cointreau"?

       a. Apple
       b. Pineapple
       c. Orange
       d. Grape


Which of these meat dishes is mismatched with the animal from which the meat comes?

       a. Hasenpfeffer - rabbit
       b. Brunswick stew - squirrel
       c. Shawarma - dog
       d. Venison - deer


How did buffalo wings get their name?

       a. They are "big enough to feed a buffalo"
       b. They are made from buffalo flesh
       c. They were invented in the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York
       d. They were Buffalo Bill Cody's favorite


What melon is named for a Turkish town now known as Turgutlu?

       a. Cantaloupe
       b. Casaba
       c. Calabash
       d. Cucumber


The process of cutting decorative zigzags along the edges of fruit halves is named in honor of the pointed beards found in whose paintings?

       a. Van Dyck (vandyking)
       b. Turner (turnering)
       c. Delacroix (delacrossing)
       d. Whistler (whistling)


Arthur Agatston created what fad diet of the early 2000s?

       a. Atkins
       b. Scarsdale
       c. South Beach
       d. The Zone


Fricadelles are served with tomato sauce. What are they?

       a. Eggs
       b. Meatballs
       c. Pasta shells
       d. Fish eggs


The exact five spices in five-spice powder vary from kitchen to kitchen. What sort of restaurant would be most likely to serve five-spice flavored food?

       a. Chinese
       b. Indian
       c. French
       d. Mexican


What two berries did Rudolph Boysen cross to create a boysenberry?

       a. Strawberry and raspberry
       b. Raspberry and blackberry
       c. Loganberry and blackberry
       d. Loganberry and raspberry


Bean threads are made from mung beans, but given the Thai noodle dish's other name, you might assume they were made from something else. What?

       a. Paper
       b. Cheese
       c. Cellophane
       d. Eggs


What would you mix with champagne to produce a "Buck's Fizz"?

       a. Orange Juice
       b. Grape Juice
       c. Cranberry Juice
       d. Ginger Ale




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