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Food Trivia

Can you answer these random questions about food correctly?
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1. All of these are berries except:
While we've tended to define berries as any small edible fruit, the official definition of a berry is "a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary." By this definition, oranges, kumquats, blueberries, and even tomatoes can be considered part of the berry family. Strawberries, on the other hand, are known as "accessory fruits."
Taken from: https://www.foodbeast.com/news/strawberries-are-not-berries-avocados-and-watermelon-are/
Blueberries
Strawberries
Bananas
Tomatoes
2. What state is the birthplace of chocolate chip cookies?
Like many great discoveries...and this is one of the greatest, It was a mistake. The invention of the chocolate chip cookie happened in 1930 when Ruth Graves Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, were running the Toll House Inn on Route 18 near Whitman, Massachusetts. One day, while baking a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, Wakefield added chopped up bits from a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar. She thought it would create solid chocolate cookies. But, that didn't go as planned, and a star was born.
Taken from: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/living/chocolate-chip-cookie-history-trnd/index.html,
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/ChocolateChipCookie/
Arizona
Michigan
Florida
Massachusetts
3. Which date do Americans celebrate the National Sandwich Day?
National Sandwich Day is the North American version of British Sandwich Week and is set to take place on November 3rd, 2018. The event was launched in the USA in 2017 and proved to be such an international success that it will make a reappearance in 2018.
Taken from: https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-sandwich-day-2018/
September 3
November 3
November 5
September 5
4. Which city is titled the "Ice Cream Capital of the World"?
Le Mars is the home of Wells Enterprises, Inc., world's largest producer of ice cream novelties in one location and is the "Ice Cream Capital of the World". Wells is best known for its Blue Bunny products.
Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mars,_Iowa
Nice, France
Antwerp, Belgium
Florence, Italy
Le Mars, Iowa
5. "You deserve a break today” was the slogan for which fast food chain?
In the early ’70s, McDonald’s was looking for a new company to head their next campaign. Needham, Harper & Steers impressed McDonald’s through the marrying of their various audiences — mothers, fathers and kids — with the singular idea of “getting away.”
Taken from: https://www.1callgroup.com/mcdonalds-you-deserve-a-break-today-blog.html
Wendy's
McDonald's
Burger King
Taco Bell
6. What is eaten traditionally in the UK on the day before Ash Wednesday?
Pancakes may have grown to be associated with Shrove Tuesday as it was the last day to eat foods containing butter, eggs, and fat before the fasting of lent and dates back to the 16th century.
Taken from: https://quizzclub.com/trivia/what-is-eaten-traditionally-in-the-uk-the-day-before-ash-wednesday/answer/282580/
Waffle
Pancake
Scotch egg
Cheese on toast
7. During the second world war, what alternative name was used for hamburgers?
During World War Two, hamburgers were called "liberty steaks" instead. The Americans wanted to change the name because hamburgers was a German sounding name.
Taken from: https://www.sutori.com/item/during-world-war-two-hamburgers-were-called-liberty-steaks-instead-the-ameri
Wilbury steak
Beefburger
Liberty steak
Ground sirloin
8. In what state is it illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket?
If you're caught sticking an Ice Cream Cone in your back pocket, you could be thrown in jail! This is just one of the crazy state Alabama Laws that you may, or may not know about.
Taken from:https://alt1017.com/sticking-an-ice-cream-cone-in-your-back-pocket-is-illegal-in-alabama-along-with-10-other-crazy-state-laws/
Colorado
Alaska
Alabama
Tennessee
9. What food was considered as a currency?
It's strange but it's true. These cocoa beans that were used to make the liquid chocolate were largely used as a barter currency for the exchange of food and clothes.
Taken from: https://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/did-you-know-chocolate-was-used-as-currency-centuries-ago-1729340
Oranges
Cheese
Grapes
Chocolate
10. What is the most stolen food?
Cheese is the world's most stolen food item. More than meat, more than baby formula. Cheese stealing is especially popular in Europe because as one security expert put it: "You know, Europeans love their cheese."
Taken from: https://www.marketplace.org/2013/04/02/life/final-note/whats-worlds-most-stolen-food
Cheese
Meat
Nuts
Corn
11. Which of these statements are true?
Well, orange carrots at least. Like most things, it was an accident – a genetic mutation. But the domestication of carrots did result in the sweet, smooth, and orange root we know and love to eat today.
Taken from: http://sciencemeetsfood.org/food-trivia/
Carrots were originally purple.
A row of corn always has a prime number.
Raw carrots are more nutritious than cooked
Using margarine instead of butter will save calories
12. What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?
Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks.
Taken from:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38678280/ns/health-food_safety/t/no-cause-food-poisoning-poultry/#.XJjRiSgzbIU
Beef
Pork
Chicken
Egg
13. What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity?
Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity.
Taken from: https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head
A mango
An apple
An apricot
An avocado
14. Which of these is one of the only food that will never rot?
Have you ever noticed that your honey never rots? Actually, it can last 3000 years. Archaeologists excavated old Egyptian tombs and found something unexpected amongst the tombs: pots of honey, thousands years old, and yet still preserved.
Taken from:https://foodaddict725.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/honey-is-the-only-food-that-will-never-rot/
Green tea
Honey
Brown rice
Cooked rice
15. Which popular condiment was once sold as medicine?
In 1834, ketchup was sold as a cure for indigestion by an Ohio physician named John Cook.
Taken from: https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/question/what-popular-condiment-was-once-sold-as-medicine/
Mayonaise
Soy sauce
Mustard
Ketchup
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