Beverages (Non-Alcoholic) Trivia

1. When and where did Fanta originate?

From Quiz Swimming in Orange Soda is My Fanta Sea!

Answer: Nazi Germany, 1940

The Fanta soft drink popular all over the world was introduced in Germany in 1940 when the Coca-Cola bottling plant there was closed down during World War II due to a halt in commerce between the U.S. and Germany. With no more access to Coca-Cola syrup, they had to look for other sources of sweeteners and in so doing they invented Fanta.

From Quiz Drinking the Kool-Aid

Answer: Edwin Perkins

Edwin Perkins experimented in his mother's kitchen to reduce Fruit Smack from a liquid to a powder. Being in powder form it would be easier and cheaper to ship the product. Edwin Perkins found the solution to his experiments in 1927. Interestingly today Kool-Aid comes in liquid form as well.

From Quiz In-Cider Knowledge

Answer: 11 to 14 pounds

The juicier the fruit, the fewer pounds necessary to produce a gallon of lovely cider.

From Quiz Raise Your Glass

Answer: celery

The flavor is actually extracted from the celery seed and has been around since the 1960s. All of Dr. Brown's sodas are kosher and can be found in certain Jewish delicatessens.

From Quiz Coffee - A Daily Grind

Answer: Caffeine

There is much debate about the health benefits of caffeine. It is a mild stimulant that increases alertness and a is mild appetite suppressant. A fatal dose would be 5000 milligrams, which is equivalent to drinking 40 cups of coffee rapidly. That's a lot of coffee!

From Quiz These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty!

Answer: Pickled lime and sugar

A salty lemonade is called "chanh muoi" (with a tilde above the 'o'). The drink is made by packing limes in a container with salt, and setting it out in the sun until the limes become brined, or pickled. Then, the juice is removed from the limes, and this takes the salt with it. This creates a very salty and tart liquid, so sugar and either water or soda water are then added to finish it off. It sounds absolutely horrible, but it is actually rather delicious.

From Quiz Bottled Water - Facts and Fiction

Answer: Prior to the 1800s

Sources vary as to the date of the first bottling of water for sale, but it occurred at least prior to the 1800s. The website "Bottledwaterweb" noted that spa water in Belgium was bottled for export in 1583. Other sources credit Jackson's Spa in Boston for being the first to offer bottled water for sale in 1767.

From Quiz A "Pop" Quiz

Answer: Sprite

Crush is an orange soft drink. 7-Up is also a lemon and lime flavored soft drink, but it is manufactured by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the U.S. and by PepsiCo elsewhere. Canada Dry is a brand of ginger ale.

From Quiz A Quiz On Soft Drinks, AKA "Pop" Quiz

Answer: Bulldog

Mug started out as a regional brand in the San Francisco area in the 1950s, and was purchased by Pepsi-Cola in 1986 to create worldwide competition for A&W and Barq's root beer. The dog's name on the label? "Dog". (Don't tell me you won't use that bit of trivia tomorrow.)

From Quiz Anyone Thirsty?

Answer: Chocolate malted milk

Currently produced by Nestle, Milo was first developed in 1934. It is a flavouring in powdered form that can be added to either hot or cold milk. Another popular use is to sprinkle it on ice cream.

From Quiz Pop, Soda, Coke: The Pause that Refreshes

Answer: It allows customers to mix many products

Coca-Cola sales were dropping, so the "Freestyle" machine emerged. It's fun, but more importantly, it keeps track of how much liquid restaurant customers put into a cup, what kind of brands they mix, and how often a specific brand sells every day. Coca-Cola hoped to discover their next million dollar brand, based on the mix of brands people like best.

From Quiz Perrier: The Original Bottled Water

Answer: green

Perrier has used its famous green glass bottle ever since they started production. The color helps protect its taste and is sure to catch the eye of the discriminating connoisseur of bottled water.

From Quiz Vimto - More Than Just A Drink?

Answer: It's "vim" (as in vim and vigour) plus TOnic

Vimto's inventor, Noel Nichols, originally called it "Vim Tonic" because he claimed it revitalised you and gave you energy. Much as with Coca Cola, which at the time Vimto was born in 1908 was still calling itself a "delightful, palatable, healthful beverage," Vimto was originally intended as a health drink. "Vim" is also the name of a popular brand of UK scouring powder first sold in 1904. It was clearly in vogue in Edwardian times, although it's virtually a fossil word these days, really only living on in the phrase "vim and vigour." "Vimto" does look a lot like a Latin first person singular verb. "Vim" itself even exists in Latin - it means "force" or "power" - and this is probably where the English word comes from. "Vimto" is not valid Latin though. The British actor Derek Nimmo used to suffer at school at the hands of a Latin teacher who claimed his surname was part of a verb meaning "to be a nobody" ("Nobody," as Jules Verne fans will know, is "nemo" in Latin). If Noel Nichols was tempted to make up a similar verb, he clearly resisted. Founders' and inventors' Initials and/or partial surnames are, of course, very popular in brand and company names - B&Q, Tesco and Amstrad just for starters in the UK alone.

From Quiz Irn-Bru - Made In Scotland From Girders

Answer: Barr

The company that made Barr's Irn-Bru traced its history to 1830 when it was set up in Falkirk as a cork-cutting business. The carbonated drink itself has a citrus-like taste and a bright orange colouring. Over the years several variants have been produced, including diet-free and high energy.

From Quiz So You're a Snapple Drinker

Answer: Lemon Tea

The "not to scale" reference is in regards to the depiction of the sun on the label. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the smiley faced sun is not the same size as the real sun.

From Quiz It's All Kool-Aid

Answer: Kraft

Kool-Aid is owned by Kraft Foods. Kraft also owns other popular food and drink brands, such as Jell-O, Crystal Light, and Oscar Mayer.

From Quiz Water Bottles (U.S.)

Answer: Plastic

Plastic is typically the chosen material used to make water bottles. Some water comes in different flavors, but whatever they are, it is usually made in plastic. There is paper on most water bottles, but it is just the label, not the entire water bottle itself.

From Quiz Which Way Did He Go? He Went for Faygo!

Answer: Alex Karras

Alex Karras was a multi-talented man. Not only was he a NFL player for the Detroit Lions and a professional wrestler, he was also an actor. He played Mongo in "Blazing Saddles" and starred in the TV series "Webster".

From Quiz Do You Know Your Sodas? (U.S.)

Answer: Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is the biggest selling soda in the world, and has spawned numerous spin-offs such as Diet Coke, New Coke, Coca-Cola Classic, Coke Zero, and Coca-Cola Blak. When it was first introduced, one of the ingredients was cocaine, which helped give it the name Coca-Cola.

From Quiz My Favorite Drinks

Answer: Strawberry Milk

Nestle strawberry milk is the best.

From Quiz Gatorade: Beverage of Champions

Answer: University of Florida

This is also how the drink got its name. University of Florida's football team is nicknamed the "Gators", hence the name Gatorade.

From Quiz Pepsi-Cola

Answer: 1903

Pepsi was invented by a pharmacist, Caleb Bradham. It was originally intended to cure stomach pain. Pepsi-Cola was trademarked on June 16th, 1903

From Quiz The Obscure World of Jones Soda

Answer: Seattle, WA

Thankfully, Peter van Stolk founded this company in 1987 so he could distribute alternative beverages like Arizona Iced Tea. Urban Juice and Soda Company Ltd was a follow-up enterprise to van Stolk's first company, Urban Hand, which he formed in his home city of Edmonton Alberta Canada. In 1996, Urban Juice and Soda Company created and distributed their delicious Jones Soda. On August 1, 2000, they changed their name to Jones Soda Company.

From Quiz "Thirst" -ing For Knowledge

Answer: 1861

Regular pop contains 90% water while diet pop contains 99% water.

From Quiz Drinks On Me!

Answer: V8 & V 8

Did you know that there are eight different vegetables in a "V8"? Tomatoes, beets, celery, carrots, lettuce, watercress, spinach and that horrible, stick in your teeth, parsley.

From Quiz Mock-Tails

Answer: Shirley Temple

It's a Shirley Temple. Although the drink was created in her name, she tried it and didn't like it. She said it was too sweet for her taste.

From Quiz The Timeline to Soft Drinks

Answer: 1767

It was created by Dr. Joseph Priestley. Three years later, a Swedish chemist by the name of Torbern Bergman invented a generating apparatus that made carbonated water from chalk by the use of sulfuric acid.

From Quiz Soft Drinks

Answer: Moxie

From Quiz Swimming in Orange Soda is My Fanta Sea!

Answer: Apple fibers and whey

Max Keith was the CEO of that German Coca-Cola plant in Germany when it was shut down. He was the one who spearheaded attempts to create a new fruit flavored drink but it meant finding new kinds of sweeteners. They wound up using scraps of apple in cider presses along with whey. Fanta was created. The sugar content was very high with this new recipe, but it became very popular.

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