Global Gourmet Games 2024 - Saturday, May 4, 2024

Sample Answers.

Which of the following is true?

a. Mercedes Benz is the only race team to have competed in every F1 World Championship.
b. The British and French Grands Prix are the only events to have been held every Formula One season.
c. A driver is required to use at least two different types of tire compounds during a race.
d. Brazil hosted the first South American Grand Prix race.
e. The fastest-ever F1 pit stop – including a change of all four tires – was completed in four seconds.

Which of the following is NOT true of peaches?

a. Ty Cobb was nicknamed “The Georgia Peach.”
b. Peaches have a dominant gene, which gives them their fuzz; nectarines (a shaved peach) have recessive genes.
c. The Allman Brothers named their 1972 album, Eat A Peach, in honor of Duane Allman, who was killed when a peach truck hit his motorcycle.
d. Peaches were first cultivated in China, which is still the largest producer of peaches.
e. The peach’s scientific name, prunus persica, translates as a Persian plum.

Which of the following is true?

a. Hot chilis, and thus its spicy taste, were not added into kimchee until the 17th century.
b. Kimchee is also known as “pao cai” in China.
c. A fermenting jar of kimchee must be “burped” daily.
d. South Korea imports more kimchee than it exports.
e. Scientists developed a kimchee recipe specifically to be served in the international space station.

Which of the following is true?

a. 42% of Chinese adults – 593 million people – are diabetic or pre-diabetic.
b. The last case of polio in the United States was in diagnosed in 1979.
c. 86% of all U.S. health care costs can be attributable to chronic disease.
d. Due to poor diets and lack of exercise, hypertension is most prevalent in high-income countries.
e. The United States vaccination rates are below the world average.

What percent of packaged foods purchased in the U.S. contain “added sugar”?

a. 54%
b. 66%
c. 74%
d. 82%
e. 88%

Which of the following is true?

a. You will need at least 50 party guests if you plan on consuming a butthold of wine.
b. Merlot grapes are the most planted grape in the world.
c. A vertical tasting means you’ll be trying several of the same varietals of wine.
d. It generally takes 8-10 years for a grapevine to begin bearing fruit that can be made into wine.

 
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