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The quizzes have started again, once a month till Christmas  You lucky people, you'll love this ....

 

 

Coffee Questions 1 point each correct answer......penultimate question 5 points possible,last question possible 10 points!!
 
1)The word Cappuccino comes from?
A) The drink’s resemblance to the brown cowls worn by Capuchin monks
B) The similarity in color to the fur of Capuchin monkeys
C) The Italian puccino, meaning “light brown one”
D) The size of the cup in which it’s commonly served
 
2 Expresso means?
A) Speed it up
B) To go
C) Forced out
D) Black and intense
 
3 Coffee was the first food to be ?
A) Shipped from Europe to the New World
B) Freeze-dried
C) Used in Aztec religious ceremonies
D) Roasted and ground for drinking
 
4 40% of the worlds coffee is produced by?
A) Africa
B) Colombia and Brazil
C) Turkey
D) Southeast Asia
 
5 Kopi Luwak the worlds most expensive coffee is made by?
A) Processed during a full moon
B) Brewed only with solid gold pots
C) Made from coffee beans eaten and then excreted by a Sumatran wild cat
D) Grown at a higher altitude than any other bean
 
6 Coffee beans grow on?
A) A low, spreading vine
B) A bush
C) A tree
D) The roots of a coffee plant
 
7 Most coffees are a blend of?
A) Light and dark roasts
B) Caffeine and essential oils
C) Arabica and robusta beans
D) African and South American beans
 
8 An ibrik is?
A) A South-American tool for grinding coffee beans
B) The Turkish word for barista
C) A Middle Eastern coffee house
D) A long-handled copper pot for making Turkish coffee
 
9 Arabica varieties like Java and Mocha are named after?
A) The plantations where they’re grown
B) The coffee grower who developed that variety
C) Their predominant flavorings
D) Their ports of origin
 
10 Muslim leaders in the 16th century banned coffee because of?
A) Its stimulating effects
B) The gambling that took place in coffeehouses
C) The black market that sprang up in the coffee trade
D) Sufi mystics who wanted coffee limited to spiritual ceremonies
 
Quotes
11 Who said “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”?
A) T S Eliot
B) Dalai Lama
C) Donald Trump
D) Johnny Starbucks

 

 

12 WHO SAID ““WITHOUT MY MORNING COFFEE I’M JUST LIKE A DRIED UP PIECE OF ROAST GOAT.”

A) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

B) JACKIE CHAN

C) NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

D) ORSON WELLES

 

13 WHO SAID ““THERE ARE THREE INTOLERABLE THINGS IN LIFE—COLD COFFEE, LUKEWARM CHAMPAGNE, AND OVEREXCITED WOMEN…”

A) HUGH JACKMAN

B) JOHN WAYNE

C) ORSON WELLES

D) CLARK GABLE

 

14) WHO SAID “WHAT ON EARTH COULD BE MORE LUXURIOUS THAN A SOFA, A BOOK AND A CUP OF COFFEE”

A) J K ROWLING

B) ANTHONY TROLLOPE

C) JANE AUSTEN

D) GEORGE MARTIN

 

15) WHO SAID “COFFEE, THE FAVOURITE DRINK OF THE CIVILISED WORLD”?

A) ABRAHAM LINCOLN

B) ADAM SMITH

C) GEORGE W BUSH SNR

D) THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

16) MOTHER LOVES COFFEE, PUT THESE COFFEES IN ORDER FROM MUVVA'S BEST LOVED TO LEAST

A) ETHIOPIAN 100% ARABICA COFFEE

B) HOT JAVA LAVA

C) GERMAN ROASTED REGULAR GROUND COFFEE

D) COLUMBIAN ROAST AND GROUND

E) FRENCH ROAST DARK

 

17) NAME YOUR OWN NEW COFFEE BLEND ?

 

make up an answer 

 

 

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Eugene's Lair posted:

BTW, Dame:

 

Did you ever post the answers to the album cover quiz?

There was one cover that drove me up the wall! 

I thought I had Eugene...will look for the answers tomorrow and post them, I am so sorry if I didn't 

Dame_Ann_Average

@Eugines Lair 

Answers from the last music quiz 

 

Part 1-Answers 5 points each =95
1 Eponine
2 South Pacific
3 Dave
4 709
5 Jesus in Godspell
6 Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, Gretl
7 “Your eyes”
8 “Mama I’m a big girl now” in Hairspray
9 230
10 Choreography in Annie
Part 2- answers total 90 points 
1 “ and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy” in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
2 Becky Thatcher
3 Pennywise
4 Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
5 WW2
6 Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
7 Midnight’s Children- Salman Rushdie
8 Gates of Dawn, Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame
9 Capt Flint, Admiral Benbow 10 sunday clothes 
Part 3 Album covers 10 points for artist and 10 points for album- 280 points 
1 Marillion- Script for a Jesters tear
2 Alice cooper- Welcome to my nightmare
3 Al Stewart- Year of the Cat
4 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
5 Johann Sebastian Bach- The Concertos for 3 and 4 Harpsicords
6 Edward Grieg- Peer Gynt Suites 1 and2 
7 Handel –Water Music
8 Elgar- Enigma Variations
9 Rod Stewart – Tonight I’m Yours
10 kate Bush- Lionheart
11 Thin Lizzy- Johnny The Fox
12 Scorpions- Animal Magnetism 
13 Don Mc Clean- American Pie
14 Iron Maiden- Seventh son of a seventh son

 

Dame_Ann_Average

 

This is always a topic of conversation in the office as a few of my colleagues buy beans and grind the coffee in the office before a brew. 

 

We are considering putting together and buying some beans. 

 

5 Kopi Luwak the worlds most expensive coffee is made by?
A) Processed during a full moon
B) Brewed only with solid gold pots
C) Made from coffee beans eaten and then excreted by a Sumatran wild cat
D) Grown at a higher altitude than any other bean
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