Thanksgiving quiz 3
When I lived in Davis and when we were entertaining friends and family at Thanksgiving I would always try to entertain our guests with a postprandial quiz of my own devising. I would wait until the guests had eaten their fill in order to ensure their near-comatose state forbids them an easy escape.
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Round 1: Is it a turkey?
The Latin name for Turkey is Meleagris gallopavo, and turkeys belong to the family of birds called Phasianidae, (Face-ee-ann-i-die). So which of the following birds are also in the same family and hence closely related to turkeys?
- Pigeon
- Partridge
- Turkey Vulture
- Peacock
- Quail
- Flamingo
Round 2: Is it in Turkey?
- Pune
- Bochum
- Bodrum
- Ankara
- Hemet
- Ephesus
Round 3: Stuffing
A turducken is a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. But this is not the only example of food items being stuffed inside other food items. The name for this culinary technique is engastration.
You will see five dishes listed below; four of these dishes involve meat, but one of them is a dessert dish. 1 point for each of the correct blank spaces that you fill in. Order of stuffing not important
- Gurducken/Gooducken
- Fowl de cochon
- Pandora's cushion
- Hotchken
- Cherpumple
Round 4: True or false:
- The Turkish word for Turkey (the animal) is Turkey (i.e. it's the same)
- The Republic of Turkey was founded in 1897
- Turkey has a higher population than Argentina and Malaysia combined
- An adult wild turkey is covered by approximately 1,100 feathers
- Romania is one of 8 different countries that shares a border with Turkey
- Wild turkeys can fly at up to 55 mph
- Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnuts
- There are Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and Turkey is home to two of them
- The weight of the largest turkey ever recorded was 86 lbs / 39 Kg
- Internationally, Turkey is more popular to tourists than the United Kingdom
Answers
Round 1: Is it a turkey?
The Latin name for Turkey is Meleagris gallopavo, and turkeys belong to the family of birds called Phasianidae, (Face-ee-ann-i-die). So which of the following birds are also in the same family and hence closely related to turkeys?
- Pigeon
- Partridge (Y)
- Turkey Vulture
- Peacock (Y)
- Quail (Y)
- Flamingo
Round 2: Is it in Turkey?
- No. It's in India, 27th largest city in the world.
- No. It's in Germany (16th largest city)
- Yes
- Yes
- Noo. It's in Riverside county, California
- Yes
Round 3: Stuffing
- Gurducken/Gooducken: goose <- duck <- chicken
- Fowl de cochon: pig <- turkey <- duck <- chicken
- Pandora's cushion: goose <- chicken <- quail
- Hotchken: chicken <- hot dogs
- Cherpumple: Cake <- cherry pie + pumpkin pie + apple pie
Round 4: True or false:
- False
- False: it was founded in 1923 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WW1
- True: 77m vs 43m + 30m, 18th most populous in the world
- False: it's 5,500 feathers
- False: Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria
- True
- True
- True: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- True
- True: 37.8 tourist arrivals vs 31.2 in 2013