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Exploring the World of Coffee: Quiz

This quiz explores various aspects of coffee, including its health effects, origins, and cultural references in film.

1 [77] It increases the risk of ________ and associated diseases.

2 What is the origin of Coffee?

3 Coffee's negative health effects are often blamed on its ________ content.

4 What role did Cameron Northey play in the movie Coffee?

5 What role did Andy Allen play in the movie Coffee?

6 Who played John in the movie Coffee?

7 Who played Poetry Reader in the movie Coffee?

8 Brewing coffee by boiling was the earliest method, and ________ is an example of this method.

9 What role did Jody Thompson play in the movie Coffee?

10 It does not identify coffee by name, but includes the statement that "hot drinks are not for the belly," which has been interpreted to forbid both coffee and ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • renowned restaurateur and celebrity chef Marc Murphy cannot bring himself to like coffee.
  • plant species of the family Rubiaceae have supplied coffee, quinine, syrup of ipecac, dimethyltryptamine, and indirectly, warfarin.
  • in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies, coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773.
  • species in the fungal genus Ceratobasidium cause economically important plant diseases such as sharp eyespot of cereals and black rot of coffee.
  • the 13th century Sufi scholar Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus was impressed with the stimulating effect of the coffee fruit and is credited with introducing it to the Hadhramaut region.
  • the population of Conquista, Minas Gerais decreased due to falling global demand for coffee, and the need for workers to create Brasilia.
  • the Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide.
  • before cola became widespread, the hamburger was typically served with coffee.
  • administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway.
  • Berner Honiglebkuchen (pictured), specialty lebkuchen from Berne, Switzerland, are recommended to be taken with coffee.
  • Barry Bowen owned Belikin, Belize's only domestically brewed beer brand, as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm.
  • Indonesia is the world's fourth largest producer of coffee.
  • Maraba Coffee, the first Rwandan coffee to gain Fairtrade status, is used to make the only coffee beer sold in the British Isles.
  • Richard Tapper Cadbury helped his son John start a tea and coffee business that would become Cadbury plc.
  • Pieter van den Broecke was one of the first Dutchmen to drink coffee when he visited Mocha, Yemen in 1614.
  • Vietnamese coffee producer Trung Nguyên's Legendee brand coffee is a simulated Kopi Luwak product.