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Food Trivia Quiz

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1) The following events all took place during the same year. Can you guess what year?
* The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad comes to the Texas cow country, ending the need for long distance cattle drives.
* The North American Lobster catch reaches an all time high of 130 million pounds.
* The U.S. Congress bans barbed wire fencing of public lands in the West and President Cleveland orders the removal of all illegal enclosures.
* Richard King, co-founder of the King Ranch died. The King ranch was 600,000 acres and grazed 100,000 head of cattle. * The U.S. corn crop reached over 2 billion bushels for the first time.
* Morton's Salt was introduced by Joy Morton Co., which will be the only nationwide marketer of salt in the U.S.
* New York Condensed Milk Co. introduced fresh milk in bottles to its line.
* Evaporated milk is produced commercially for the first time by Helvetia Milk Condensing Co.

2) Which weighs more, a pint of Heavy Cream or a pint of Light Cream?

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.

4) Roy Allen and Frank Wright were partners in one of the first fast food franchise chains in the U.S. The franchisees got to use the name and purchased only one item from the company. The restaurants had no common architecture; no common menu, procedures or standards and no national advertising. It wasn't until 1978 that a standard menu was created. In 1974 the company mascot was introduced - a bear.
What is the name of this famous fast food chain?

5) These mainly cool weather crucifers are grown annually for their roots. They come in an extraordinary range of sizes, shapes and colors. Small and round, long and tapered; white, black, yellow, red, lavender, pink and purple. The leaves have been used in gourmet salads. They probably originated in Asia (China) and were esteemed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Americans consume almost 1/2 million pounds of the a year.
What are these peppery vegetables?

6) Earl Silas _____ created the first ones in 1942 and the were being sold in stores by 1946. House Beautiful magazine described these products as "fine art for 39 cents." The Detroit Institute of Arts displayed stacks of them in its 1947 'Exhibition for Modern Living.' The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured one in a 1956 exhibition on outstanding 20th century design. 90% of the sales of this product line are made outside of the traditional retail store environment.
What is the name of this product?

7) The name of both a cheese and the famous dish made with it. Born in the Swiss Canton of Valais, there are both French and Swiss varieties. The cheese dish is usually accompanied by potatoes, gherkins (cornichons), pickled onions and dark bread.
Name this cheese.

8) How many flower visits do honey bees have to make to produce 1 kilo (2.2 pounds) of honey?
a) 4,000
b) 40,000
c) 400,000
d) 4 million
e) 40 million

9) What food is named for Maria Ann Smith, a late 19th century Australian grandmother and gardener?

Answers

1) All of the events took place in 1885.

2) A pint of light cream weighs more. Heavy Cream contains more butterfat (milk fat) than light cream, and butterfat weighs less than the remaining water based content. 'Heavy' refers to the richness or thickness, not the weight.

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.

4) Allen and Wright were partners in A&W Root Beer stands. The company mascot created in 1974 was the Great Root Bear.

5) Radishes.

6) Tupperware, created by Earl Silas Tupper.

7) Raclette.

8) (d) One kilo of honey represents 4 million visits to flowers by honey bees.

9) The Granny Smith apple.

Courtesy of FoodReference.com.

This news arrived on: 10/02/2009

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