Monday, December 5, 2011

Trivia Quiz #207 - Food Trivia Quiz

Food Trivia - Questions and Answers
  1. What type of oven will not brown foods?
     
  2. What type of food did Linda McCartney launch?
     
  3. What type of tree leaves are the only food that a koala bear will
    eat?
     
  4. Which country in Europe consumes more spicy Mexican food than any
    other?
     
  5. The FDA approved what fat substitute for use in snack foods even
    though there were reports of side affects like cramps and diarrhea?
     
  6. Federal labeling regulations require how much caffeine be removed
    from coffee for it to be called decaffeinated?
     
  7. What famous Greek once advised: "Let your food be your medicine,
    and your medicine be your food"?
     
  8. What interesting way does the snakebird, darter, or water turkey
    catch fish?
     
  9. Chicken is the leading cause of what food born illness?
     
  10. Who invented Margarine in 1868?
     
  11. What group of people were the first to use freeze-drying on
    potatoes?
     
  12. What was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles favorite food?
     
  13. What food was considered the food of the Gods, and was said to
    bring eternal life to anyone who ate it?
     
  14. When Birdseye first introduced its frozen foods in 1930, what was
    it called?
     
  15. What was the convenience food that Joel Cheek developed?
     
  16. What did Clarence Birdseye do before hitting on the idea of
    frozen foods?
     
  17. The song, Food, Glorious Food, was featured in which musical?
     
  18. Of the Worlds food crops, what percentage is pollinated by
    insects?
     
  19. The Giant panda's favorite food is what?
     
  20. Which entertainer on Conan O'Brien's show, choose NBC cafeteria
    chicken over his own brand in a blind taste test?
     
  21. What drink was sold as Diastoid when first introduced?
     
  22. What type of micro organism makes up the base of marine and
    freshwater food chains?
     
  23. What type of creature builds a lodge in which to store food, rear
    its young, and pass the winter?
     
  24. What fruit or vegetable was dubbed the FlavrSavr and was the
    first genetically engineered food sold in the United States?
     
  25. What fitness guru appeared as a dancing meatball in an Italian TV
    commercial as an art student?
     
  26. What Olympic athlete could not run the 200-meter final in the 92
    Olympics because of food poisoning?
     
  27. What morning food has a name derived from the German word for
    stirrup?
     
  28. In 1904, what food product was renamed Post Toasties cereal
    because the clergy objected to the original name?
     
  29. In the United States, what are the five most frequently eaten
    fruits?
     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz #207 - Food Trivia

  1. Microwave oven.
  2. Vegetarian food.
  3. Eucalyptus.
  4. Norway.
  5. Olestra.
  6. Ninety seven percent.
  7. Hippocrates.
  8. It spears the fish with its long, straight, sharp bill.
  9. Salmonella poisoning.
  10. Hyppolyte Merge-mouries.
  11. The Incas.
  12. Pizza.
  13. Ambrosia.
  14. Frosted Food.
  15. Instant Coffee.
  16. He trapped frogs for a zoo.
  17. Oliver.
  18. 80 percent.
  19. Bamboo shoots.
  20. Kenny Rogers.
  21. Malted milk.
  22. Plankton.
  23. Beaver.
  24. The tomato.
  25. Richard Simmons.
  26. Michael Johnson.
  27. Bagel.
  28. Elijah's Manna.
  29. The  banana, apple, watermelon, orange,  and
    cantaloupe