Coffee, Anyone? Trivia Quiz

Answer: David Strang

In 1890, Mr. David Strang from Invercargill, New Zealand invented instant coffee through a method he called "dry hot-air processing". His coffee was sold with the brand name of Strang's Coffee. 1901 Satori Kato created his version of instant coffee. He was a Japanese American chemist from Chicago. Melitta Bentz, from Dresden, Germany,invented the first coffee filter, which was patented on June 20, 1908. Dr. Ernest Illy is credited with creating the first automatic espresso machine back in 1933. Achilles Gaggia, from Italy, invented a high pressure espresso machine in 1946.

Answer: All are correct

Instant coffee is a lot faster to prepare than the conventional ways of brewing coffee. Because instant coffee is dehydrated, it weighs less and has less volume than coffee beans and ground coffee when preparing the same amount. Coffee beans and ground coffee both lose some flavor because their essential oils evaporate after some time, whereas instant coffee maintains its flavor.
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Answer: It brings out the flavor and aroma of the coffee.

When first picked, the coffee bean has no pleasant taste to it at all. It has to be roasted in order to bring out its aroma and its flavor. Roasting is essential for both instant and regular coffee. The beans are put into large cylinders that rotate while hot combustion gases are used. The bean temperature has to reach and exceed 165 degrees Celsius for the roasting to begin, sounding somewhat like popping corn popping. It takes between eight and fifteen minutes to complete the roasting process.
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Answer: Grinding

Once roasting the coffee beans is complete, the next step is grinding. In the process of grinding the beans are reduced to anywhere between 0.5 and 1.1 mm, so they may be put into solution with water for the drying stage. Specially designed rollers are actually used in order to cut the beans rather than crush them.

When the beans have been roasted and ground up then they are put into a solution with water into 5 to 10 percolation columns. The temperatures are between 155 and 180 degrees Celsius, which then concentrates the coffee.

The next step is the drying process either by freeze drying or spray drying. Freeze drying produces a higher quality tasting instant coffee than spray drying. (source: Wikipedia)

Answer: Banned Coffee Houses

In 1675, the King of England, Charles II believed that people were plotting against him, using Coffee Houses as a means to do so. In order to put an end to it, he banned Coffee Houses.
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Answer: Brazil

Brazil produces close to one third of the world's coffee, in both Robusto and Arabica beans. The best coffee is known as Santos, named after the port it comes from. The highest quality coffee is called the Bourbon Santos. Flat bean Santos is a lesser quality but still a good coffee. Colombia produces about twelve percent of the world's coffee, Venezuela produces about one percent of the world's coffee and Ecuador's coffee is consumed mostly in Ecuador alone.
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Answer: Abigail Anne Folger

On August 9, 1969, coffee heiress, Abigail Anne Folger was murdered by the Manson Family. "Gibby", as they called her, was the great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee. In 1969, Abigail moved into the Polanski home to stay while Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate were away. Sharon Tate returned while director Roman Polanski remained away to work on a film. On the morning of August 9th, 1969, the Manson followers had broken into the home and murdered Abigail Folger, along with Steven Parent, eight month pregnant Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring and Wojciech Frykowski. (source: Wikipedia)

Answer: Tim Hortons

Tim Hortons focuses on the best top quality coffee. It was founded in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1964. Tim Hortons provides fast, efficient and quality service specializing in "always fresh" coffee along with delicious baked goods such as donuts, muffins and cookies as well as home-style lunches.
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Answer: No

Decaffeination is the process by which caffeine is removed from coffee beans, cocoa and other caffeine-containing items such as tea leaves, etc. A process is done on unroasted coffee beans by steaming them, to begin with, then the beans are rinsed in a solvent. The process is repeated several times until the international standard of 97% of the caffeine is removed or until the EU (European Union) standard of 99.9% of the caffeine is removed. Therefore, the caffeine is never actually 100% removed.
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Answer: Coffee Crisp

Rowntree's Canadian branch marketed the first Coffee Crisp chocolate bars in 1938. This delightful snack is a combination of a coffee cream, cookie wafers and a coating of milk chocolate. Although it does taste like coffee, it only has a little bit of coffee in it, and a lot of coffee flavoring. Some of the great mottos for the promotion of this chocolate bar include, "Coffee Crisp Makes a Nice Light Snack" and "How do you like your coffee?" with the answer to that being, "Crisp!" or also "I like my coffee crisp".
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