CURRENT CULINARY QUIZ QUESTIONSANSWERS ARE BELOW (A New quiz every day) TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ1) All of the following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· The college fad of swallowing live Goldfish supposedly began on the campus of Harvard University.
· Lays Potato Chips are introduced.
· The seedless watermelon was developed. 2) A canape is a cracker or small slice of bread or toast cut in various shapes and garnished with savory foods such as cheese, meat, etc. What connection does 'canape' have with mosquitos? 3) Can you guess what these people had in common? Aristotle, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pliny, Hippocrates, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Moses, Aristophanes, Homer, Nero. 4) Why did Bangladesh ban the export of frogs in 1988?
ANSWERS TO TODAY’S FOOD TRIVIA QUESTIONS:1) All of the events took place in 1939.
(Food History Timeline: 1936-1940) 2) The origin of the word canape is a curious one. In ancient Greece, a 'konops' was a mosquito. Hang curtains around a couch to keep the mosquitos away and they called it a 'konopion'. The Romans adapted this word as 'conopeum', which shows up later in Medieval Latin as 'canopeum", and from there makes its way into Middle English as 'canope' as the name for the curtain, and eventually spelled canopy. The French used the word 'canape' for the couch, rather than the curtain. Some thought a piece of toast topped with a savory food looked like a couch (canape) and so the word took on an additional meaning in French, and we have now borrowed the word into English. 3) They all loved garlic. 4) Bangladesh at one time supplied most of the frogs-legs consumed in the U.S. The Bangladesh government soon discovered that the fly population increased drastically. It was more expensive to control the flys with insecticides, so they banned the export of frogs, and the frogs could return to what they do best - eating flys and mosquitoes! TOP | 
