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Quiz Blog - Friday 23rd - Topic: Drink

Posted: Friday, 23 January 2004

Attention quiz fiends. Are you an anorak for trivia and conundrums? This is the blog for you. Here's the deal.

You guys (the Island Bloggers) set questions, based on the daily topic (set by us). Each day we pick the best question and whack it on the homepage. Anyone can answer it by adding a Comment on the relevant day's Quiz Blog entry.

Questions should be tricky (but possible). If your question is chosen you get a point, at the end of the week the Island Blogger with the most points receives a Mystery Prize.

We’ll start off by us setting a question to get the ball rolling. Here's today's sample theme and question. Topic 1: Drinks Question 1: What is a pathological fear of alcohol known as?

Posted on Quiz Blog at 16:12

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Answer 'weird'

Nic the bar from Coll

Question 'what were the hot drinks before tea and coffee, and if there weren't any who invented them?'

Nic the bar from Col

Potophobia or Methyphobia

Jane from At Work

A hangover?

Jake from Inverness

Which vodka based drink was "invented" after being mythically advertised on posters on a tv show?

Jane from At lunch, with onion soup.....

Hot drinks before tea and coffee were heated infusions of various locally grown herbs and roots and they were invented by ingenious cave people, usually their healers, who boiled them up on their camp fires.

My question is why do they call "chips" French Fries in the US?

Val Ford from Tunbridge Wells

French fries were introduced from France as French fried potatoes (they say) by Thomas Jefferson. Anyway while we are on things "French", who invented French toast, and why is it called that?

Val Ford from Tunbridge Wells

As no-one answered by question about French toast - I'll tell you! It was invented not far from Albany New York by this chap called Joseph French - he just named it after himself. He really should have called in French's Toast!

Val Ford from Tunbridge Wells

Why does ouzo turn white when you add water?

Val from Tunbridge Wells

Hot wine

Nonya from Nonya

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