FunTrivia Hobbies Mix: Vol 13 Quiz | Hobbies

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1. The word 'spam' is a term for undesirable email. But what is Spam with a capital 's'?

Answer: Trade name for a canned meat product

Spam is a pork-based food canned in an aspic formed from its own cooking juices. First marketed in 1937 by The HORMEL Foods Corporation, Spam is now sold in such far-flung places as Singapore and Japan. Either you love it or you hate it!

Question by player ELJ1

2. What game takes its name from the Chinese word for 'sparrow'?

Answer: Mahjong

Generally played by four players, Mahjong is played with a set of 144 individually marked tiles. It has been likened to the European card game of Rummy.

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3. By what name is soy bean curd commonly known?

Answer: tofu

Borrowed from the Chinese "doufu" ("curdled bean"), tofu is a Japanese word that denotes a food made by coagulating soy milk (generally by adding calcium sulfate), and then pressing the curds into solid blocks of varying firmness. Widely used in the cuisines of East and Southeast Asia, tofu is a very ancient product, having been made and consumed in China for over 2000 years.

It was first produced in the West towards the end of the 19th century, and in more recent years has become very popular as a source of protein in vegetarian and vegan diets, or as a substitute for eggs or dairy products. Having little flavour of its own, tofu is very versatile, and provides a foil for more assertive ingredients, such as spicy sauces and condiments.

The three incorrect answers are all food-related Japanese words: miso is a fermented soybean paste, nori a kind of edible seaweed, and fugu the notorious and potentially lethal pufferfish.

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4. Which of the following is NOT known as an alcoholic beverage?

Answer: Molotov cocktail

The Molotov cocktail, a petrol bomb, was first used in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. (There is also a drink named after the bomb although its composition somewhat varies - it does usually include vodka and very strong rum however.)

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5. If you were having a barbeque, which of the following cuts of beef would likely produce the toughest steak if you prepared it on your grill?

Answer: Chuck

Just about any cut of beef can be prepared on the grill, but some are more suitable than others. Chuck steak, which comes from the neck and shoulder of the cow, is a flavorful, but rather tough, cut of beef. For this reason, it is most often used in stews, or ground into hamburger, rather than grilled.

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6. What flavour was NOT an original when Jelly Belly candy was introduced?

Answer: Buttered Popcorn

The other original flavours introduced in 1976 were orange, green apple, rootbeer, cream soda and grape.

Question by player Unicornjorge

7. The Rubik's Cube has challenged people all over the world since its release in 1980. What nationality was Ernő Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube?

Answer: Hungarian

Originally called the "Magic Cube", the Rubik's Cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik in 1974, but it was not mass marketed until 1980. When it was released by Ideal Toys, it won the German Game of the Year special award.

Question by player Redwallcrazy

8. What is the common name for Australian trees and shrubs from the genus Callistemon? It could be confused with something you use in the kitchen.

Answer: Bottlebrush

There are lots of species of bottlebrush or Callistemon. They have flowers , usually red, pink, yellow or white that look just like bottlebrushes.

Oven's wattle is a real plant of the genus Acacia.

There are several plants commonly called egg and bacon plant because of their bright yellow pea-shaped flowers with dark red markings.

As for fridge flower - oh, really!

Question by player rbjay

9. Why is a pound cake called by that name?

Answer: It calls for one pound of each ingredient

Traditional recipes for pound cake call for a pound of each ingredient, these being flour, butter, eggs and sugar. More modern recipes can vary the measurement, and add milk, vanilla or other ingredients to the basic four.

Question by player spanishliz

10. Three of these card games award victory to the player or team amassing the most points, but in which of these games do players try to avoid accumulating points?

Answer: Hearts

Hearts and Spades are both trick-taking card games, whereby each round of the game involves one player winning that round's "trick". While the object of Spades is to gain points and be the first team to reach 500, Hearts is the game, of these four listed, where points are not wanted.

The winner of Hearts has the lowest number of points when one or more other players reach(es) 100 points. The winner of Cribbage is the first player to get 121 points, with points awarded for certain cards and card combinations that are dealt and played. Canasta is a card game where points are acquired by creating "melds" - at least three cards of the same rank, and the winning team reaches 5,000 points first or has the higher point total if both players/teams reach 5,000 points.

Question by player Rizeeve

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FunTrivia Hobbies Mix: Vol 13 Trivia Quiz

A mix of 10 Hobbies questions, submitted by 10 different FunTrivia players! The first few questions are easy, but the last couple are tough!

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