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Quiz about FoodFood NameNames

Food-Food Name-Names Trivia Quiz


Some words are composed of a repeated root in which the base is doubled. Lexicologists refer to this as reduplication. An example in English is bye-bye for goodbye. Reduplicate words for food appear in many languages. How many can you identify?

A multiple-choice quiz by FatherSteve. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
FatherSteve
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
364,908
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. You are served a beautiful dish of lomi lomi salmon. Where is this most likely being offered to you? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. A bonbon is any small candy or sweet which is coated with chocolate or fondant. From what country/language does the term derive? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Name a hot frothy drink made of sweetened milk and chocolate which is phonetically but not orthographically reduplicant. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In West African cooking, starchy vegetables such as yam, plantain and cassava are boiled and pounded to produce which staple food? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In an authentic Japanese restaurant, you are served a bowl of boiling-hot dashi broth and a platter on which thinly-sliced beef, tofu, mushrooms and vegetables are artfully arranged. You take your food, one piece at a time, and dip it in the hot soup just until it is cooked. Then you dip the morsel in a flavourful sauce such as ponzu and quickly eat it. What dish are you enjoying? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Some food words are reduplicant in more than one language. What, for example, is piri piri or pili pili or peri peri or pil pil? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. You are served a bowl of dandan noodles. What should you expect to eat? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In the delightful culinary mysteries written by Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse calls his wife (whose name is Doucette) "couscous" as a term of endearment. Culinarily speaking, what is couscous? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. While vacationing in the Sandwich Islands, you hear someone announce that it is time for kaukau. What is the meaning of the Hawaiian pidgin word kaukau?

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Question 10 of 10
10. For dessert, you are served a small yeast-based cake soaked in rum and filled with some form of pastry cream. What's for dessert? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. You are served a beautiful dish of lomi lomi salmon. Where is this most likely being offered to you?

Answer: Hawaii

Lomi lomi salmon is a cold side dish of diced raw salted salmon, diced fresh tomato and diced sweet Maui onions. It may also contain green onions, red chili peppers, and/or cucumber. Lomi lomi is a Hawaiian word mean "massage" and refers to the preparation of rubbing the ingredients into the fish using the hands.
2. A bonbon is any small candy or sweet which is coated with chocolate or fondant. From what country/language does the term derive?

Answer: France/French

The term bonbon arose in 17th Century France and applied only to chocolate-robed (or fondant-robed) treats. Over time, the term came to mean any kind of candy and this is its modern meaning in French. The term is a reduplicant constructed from the French word "bon" meaning good. A literal translation would be "goody goody" which is not far off the mark.
3. Name a hot frothy drink made of sweetened milk and chocolate which is phonetically but not orthographically reduplicant.

Answer: cocoa

A cup of steaming cocoa is also known as "hot chocolate" in the US and as "drinking chocolate" in Britain.
4. In West African cooking, starchy vegetables such as yam, plantain and cassava are boiled and pounded to produce which staple food?

Answer: fu-fu

The Jones Soda Company, well known for introducing exotic and surprising flavoured drinks such as "turkey and gravy," produces a cane-sugar soda called "Fufu Berry." This is a fruit punch as there is no such thing as a fufu berry. Fu-fu can also be spelled as foo-foo.
5. In an authentic Japanese restaurant, you are served a bowl of boiling-hot dashi broth and a platter on which thinly-sliced beef, tofu, mushrooms and vegetables are artfully arranged. You take your food, one piece at a time, and dip it in the hot soup just until it is cooked. Then you dip the morsel in a flavourful sauce such as ponzu and quickly eat it. What dish are you enjoying?

Answer: shabu shabu

Shabu shabu is sometimes compared to sukiyaki but that dish differs in that it tends to be sweeter (in the broth) and is often cooked all at once rather than a bit at a time. Both dishes are indebted to the ancient Chinese hot pot method of cooking. A meal of shabu shabu is often completed by adding rice or noodles to the stock, enriched by all that has been cooked in it, and consuming the result as a soup.
6. Some food words are reduplicant in more than one language. What, for example, is piri piri or pili pili or peri peri or pil pil?

Answer: Hot chili peppers and a sauce made from them

Piri piri is the Portuguese term, pili pili is the Swahili term, peri peri is the Malawian term and pil pil is the Basque term. The African Bird's Eye Chili is thought to have been brought by Columbus from the Americas to Europe and then carried by the Portuguese to Africa. The chilies and the sauce are both fiery hot to the taste.
7. You are served a bowl of dandan noodles. What should you expect to eat?

Answer: a very spicy dish with chili oil, Sichuan peppers and pork

Dandan noodles or dandanmian is a dish from the Sichuan region of China. It was sold by street vendors who carried it in pots suspended from poles. The word for the poles was dandan, from which the food's name derived: noodles carried on a pole. Like many dishes in Sichuan cooking, this one is hot hot.
8. In the delightful culinary mysteries written by Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse calls his wife (whose name is Doucette) "couscous" as a term of endearment. Culinarily speaking, what is couscous?

Answer: tiny granules or spheres of dried semolina flour which are steamed for service

Couscous has been made and eaten in Northern Africa since before written records of such things were kept. It is also popular in Europe and North and South America. The French term for a steamer made especially for this purpose is couscoussière.
9. While vacationing in the Sandwich Islands, you hear someone announce that it is time for kaukau. What is the meaning of the Hawaiian pidgin word kaukau?

Answer: food

"Kaukau" is a pidgin slang word meaning "food" or "to eat." The native Hawaiian term for food is `ai. "Kaukau" may derive from the Hawaiian word for table (pâkaukau) or from a Chinese word for food (chow chow).
10. For dessert, you are served a small yeast-based cake soaked in rum and filled with some form of pastry cream. What's for dessert?

Answer: babas

This dessert was invented in France around 1835 but derived from much older desserts made on the same principal: some kind of sweet cake soaked in some kind of flavourful alcoholic liquor. The modern version ("baba au rhum') is served by Alain Ducasse as one of his specialties.
Source: Author FatherSteve

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