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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Food & Drink
| You know how it is. Its a lovely day. You're out in the garden. You drink one Budweiser, then another. Before you know it you've drunk 10 litres of the stuff. How much gardening do you need to do to burn off the calories? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
13 hours. 10 litres is 4000 calories, and you burn off around 300 calories an hour gardening. Obviously, after 10 litres of Bud, this assumes you can see well enough to hold the spade.
| Which US president made the celebration of Thanksgiving official? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln made it official in 1863 to commemorate that first Thanksgiving in 1621. Thanksgiving was already being celebrated in 30 states out of 21 but it took Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of
Godey's Lady's Book who had been campaigning for a national Thanksgiving Day since 1846 to influence Lincoln and make it happen.
| Which U.S. city boasts the world's largest drive-in restaurant? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Atlanta, Georgia. If you've never been to the Varsity in Atlanta, you just haven't lived. (There's one in Athens, Ga. too.) It's located across from Georgia Tech and when there is a home football game, the Varsity may serve over 30,000 customers in one day. The Varsity can accommodate 600 cars at one time. What do they serve? WONDERFUL chili dogs, GREAT fried onion rings and fries and SUPERIOR fried pies plus a very special orange drink. The Varsity is known for serving more Coke in a year than any other single U.S. restaurant.
| Which native American fruit is also known as the bounceberry? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Cranberry. Of all the fruits that we can grow or buy in the grocery store, only three are native to North America----Concord grapes, the blueberry and cranberries. Cranberries are called bounceberries because they bounce when ripe This can be used to tell the ripe berries from the immature berries at harvest time.
| Which is the Number One pizza topping in America? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Pepperoni. Hands down---Pepperoni comes out on top. It's ordered on about 36% of pizzas and Americans eat about 251,770,000 pounds of it in a year. Anchovies are the least preferred. In Pakistan, they like curry on their pizza. Costa Ricans go for coconut, the Chileans like their mussels and clams but Japanese like eels and squid on their pizza. Can't think of anything worse!
| Which form of pasta is said to come from the word for the pot in which it was cooked? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Lasagne. The Italian word "lasagne" comes from the Roman word "lasania" which meant cooking pot. Some historians took it further back to the Latin word for "lasania" which is "lasanum" and suggests this word means "chamber pot".
| Which American is said to have had the most voracious appetite? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Diamond Jim Brady. Dinner was his main meal after having polished off thousands of calories at breakfast and lunch. A typical dinner would include dozens of oysters, six or seven lobsters, a dozen crabs, steak, terrapin, green turtle soup, two canvasback ducks, pastries, orange juice and two pounds of chocolate for dessert. But this wasn't all! After the theater, he had supper consisting of game birds, wild fowl and more orange juice. New York restaurateur, George Recto, said he was the "best 25 customers I ever had." After Brady's death, an autopsy showed that he had a stomach 6 times larger than the average person.
| What was America's most favorite alcoholic beverage following the Revolutionary War? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Hard Cider. Americans preferred domestically produced alcohols. Hard cider was made from apples but there were also pear and a peach versions. Cider was very popular because it was cheap and easy to make.
| What are mushrooms grown in? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
Manure and Farm Debris. Mushrooms are fungi and contain no chlorophyll. They are not dependent on the sun to grow and are called saprophytic, getting their nutrients from decomposing organic matter. But don't worry, the mushrooms you get at the market are perfectly safe just don't go hunting mushrooms in the woods unless you are an expert in determining a mushroom from a poisonous toadstool.
| True or False: climbing Mount Everest will only burn off 5 jammy dougnuts? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
f. Of course its false, don't be ridiculous.
| Roughly how many episodes of Ally McBeal would you have to sit and watch to burn off one Big Mac? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
8. You burn off around 80 calories an hour just sitting, so that's 7-8 hours of the legal twig for a 580 calorie Big Mac. Why bother exercising?
| Most of the world loves football (apart from America, Canada and Australia, who call it soccer). Lots of people like soy sauce. How many tablespoons of soy sauce for an hour of football? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
54. Football burns 540 calories an hour, and a tablespoon of soy sauce is a trim 10 calories. Surprisingly, few diets recommend eating soy sauce exclusively.
| In which US state could you legally take your road kill home to cook and eat? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
West Virginia. In most states it's illegal to carry your road kill home but not in West Virginia. There is a string attached though. They have to report it to the state within 12 hours (wonder why?). This law enacted in 1998 was supposed to save money as the state wouldn't have to pick up and dispose of the carcass.
| If you're sitting watching "Terms of Endearment" you'll certainly need some ice cream to cheer you up. About how much can you eat and just about break even? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
1/8th gallon. Its 2 hours 12 minutes long, and a gallon of ice cream's about 1400 calories. Of course if you don't like slushy films, you may lose the calories entirely.
| If you swim the English Channel, how many slices of French Toast can you have when you get there? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
53. About 15 hours swimming equals 8200 calories, so with French toast at 155 calories a slice, you can eat with impugnity.
| If Winnie the Pooh went waterskiing for 1 hour, how much honey could he eat? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
6 tablespoons. Honey is 65 calories per tablespoon, and waterskiing burns about 420 calories an hour. Note: the above are based on human exercise rates, and its perfectly possible that a cuddly toy bear wouldn't burn calories at the same rate, but I think that anyone who picks up on this is being pernickety.
| How much Racquetball would William Tell need to play to burn off 2 pounds of Swiss cheese? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
6 hours. Swiss cheese is 105 calories the ounce, and racquetball burns 600 calories an hour. Possibly this explains why the Swiss are not known as a nation of great Racquetball players. Or possibly not.
| Did the Japanese invent "tempura"? | The Just in Case You Were Wondering Quiz (tigey) |
no. Everyone seems to think so but it just "ain't true". Tempura was taken to Japan by the Jesuit missionaries in about 1585. The word "tempura" comes from a Portuguese word "temporras" which means "Friday"....the day that deep fried fish was eaten.
| After 3 hours hard shopping, there's nothing better than relaxing with a bowl of breaded scallops. How many can you have? | Calorie Controlled Quiz (Islingtonian) |
28. 6 scallops are around 195 calories, and shopping burns around 300 calories an hour. So don't hold back - go scallop crazy.
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- In the 'food and drink' section of Quizzyland, I've seen a few references to a beverage by the name of 'Grape Nehi.' Being British, I know nothing about this product. Anyone care to enlighten me? ( goto )
- Is Gatorade a healthy drink? ( goto )
- It is classified as a literary genre and a form of macabre art. Some variations include food and drink, others incoporate time-pieces. One South American country celebrates its association with a festa, while it also was once sported by Mary Stuart. What is it, what movie title took its name from it, and can you provide a painting portraying a certain late, medieval allegory associated with it? ( goto )
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- What soft drink is the "un-cola"? ( goto )
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- From which drink is Calvados distilled? ( goto )
- What drink is distilled from the agave plant? ( goto )
- On Laverne and Shirley, what was Laverne's favorite drink? ( goto )
- Which animal's name means 'drink nothing'? ( goto )
- How much of the water on earth is available to drink ? ( goto )
- What is contained in the alcoholic drink Gorilla Spit? ( goto )
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- Was it ever illegal to drink alcohol in the United States? ( goto )
- What is the only food that does not spoil? ( goto )
- What was the first fast food restaurant? ( goto )
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- Which item of food is the symbol of hospitality? ( goto )
- What is the world's most expensive food? ( goto )
- What type of food lasts the longest?
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- What is Mr. Remora's favourite food? ( goto )
- Which food is known to have caused the greatest number of cases of food poisoning? ( goto )
- What movie has Mickey Rourke slamming back drink after drink at a bar called the Golden Horn? ( goto )
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