# Potluck: A Food & Culture Quiz 2022

- Quiz by: Prayag Mohanty (QM Prayag)
- Published: 2022-10-02
- Slides: 49
- Event: BITS Goa
- Topics: TLC, MELA
- View online: https://prayag-mohanty.github.io/QM/quiz/potluck-a-food-culture-quiz-2022/
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Potluck: A Food & Culture Quiz 2022: a quiz set with questions and answers (49 slides) by Prayag Mohanty. View online, download or share.

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The debate over how this particular instant snack should be eaten is a
never-ending one. It has undergone several flavour fusions ranging from
'masala', 'chicken', 'tangy tomato' to customised ones (rather infamous) like
chocolate, icecream ones too.

Despite ingrained in every Indian, as the quick fix for hunger pangs, it's
origins are European. The tagline of this snack lies in it's simplicity and
quickness in making it. It's one of the first "dish", homecooks learn to cook,
what snack am I talking about?

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Maggi

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Given in the pic (next slide) is a traditional New Zealand biscuit made
from flour, butter, cornflakes, sugar and cocoa powder, topped with
chocolate icing and walnut.

The popular name of the biscuit comes from the brown texture and
can be attributed to a few theories.
One of them refers to the biscuit's texture and colour being likened to
the landscape of a certain South Asian country ,while one theory
suggests it was named after the traditional hat of the same country.
Which biscuit?

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Afghan cookie

Pakol

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A Ukranian bakery has created a croissant named after a former
leader, who supported Ukraine's cause against Russia. The croissant
has a row of pastries with meringue toppings, crowned with a scoop of
vanilla ice cream to represent the former Prime Minister’s chaotic
locks.

ID the former leader, after whom the croissant is named after?

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Boris Johnson

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Contrary to popular belief, it's not a duck!
This delicacy is actually a lizardfish.

It actually got its name from the British era, as this fish variety was
being transported on a mail train from Bombay.
A popular staple food for Mumbaikars and the Koli fisherfolk, it's
known for it's very strong and very salty taste, with a crunchy, brittle
texture.
ID the delicacy

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Bombay Duck

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ID the series and the what's the context?

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House of the Dragon, Swiggy

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In the 90s, Hansal Mehta started out his film making career as the
producer of the hugely popular show X. To start out with Zee TV wanted
to have a female host to bring a "connect" with the target audience.

But few episodes in, the show started lose audience.
It was then Hansal went to Tulip Star Banquet Hall and asked the
manager, to suggest some good "hosts". It was here that he discovered
the 'host', who gained superstardom via the show and is still one of the
biggest names in the industry.

ID the iconic show

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Khana Khazana

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A movie, released recently deals, with a former factory floor manager
who lost his work due to the pandemic and struggles with the world
of ratings and rewards while working as a food delivery rider.

ID the name of the movie and the lead actor. The name of the movie
is a modified portmanteau of the duopolies of food delivery
industry. The lead actor is rather well known in another genre.

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X- Zwigato
Y- Kapil Sharma

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The oil created from a certain "fruit" is generally grouped into refined
or unrefined classifications, and graded based on level of acidity, or
free oleic acid.
However, there's a category of the oil X that is popular in the vegetable
oil market and is subject to a lot of puns (often sexual).

The name comes from the fact that the oil is extracted purely
mechanically, by grinding the "fruit" into a paste followed by pressing-
meant to be pure and high quality. ID the oil category

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Virgin olive oil

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ID deez nuts

John McAdam was a Scottish inventor known for building roads with a
smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size,
that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks.

Inspired by his deeds in the engineering field, his botanist friend
Ferdinand named a certain variety of nuts after him. Known for it's
texture, it is known for being one of the most expensive nuts in the
world.

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Macadamia Nuts

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This local curry, made with white poppy seeds, sliced or grated
coconut and large dried red chilies and usually prepared with
chicken, lamb, or beef.

Historically, local fishermen would prepare a sauce or gravy
containing these spices. One of the few dishes in the world that
has a name starting with an 'X'. ( How many could you recall? :))
ID the dish

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Xacuti

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Famously known for playing fictional characters, who were
specialised in creating illicit substances, these actors have
collaborated to create a brand 'Dos Hombres'. Literally meaning
"Two Men"

ID both the co-founders of the meczal brand 'Dos Hombres'

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Bryan Cranston,
Aaron Paul

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Which iconic dish?

Said to have been invented in 1975 by Nelson Wang, a cook at the
Cricket Club of India in Mumbai, when a customer asked him to create
a new dish, different from what was available on the menu.

Wang described his invention process as starting from the basic
ingredients of an Indian dish, namely chopped garlic, ginger, and green
chilis, but next, instead of adding garam masala, he put in soy sauce,
followed by cornstarch and the chicken itself

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Manchurian

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X is a sauce that is known to be vinegary and a bit salty. It was created by
pharmacists as a medicine initially.

According to their company tradition, when the recipe was first mixed the
resulting product was so strong that it was considered inedible and the
barrel was abandoned in the basement. Looking to make space in the storage
area a few years later, the chemists decided to try it again, and discovered
that the long fermented sauce had mellowed and was now palatable.

Which (rather long, unpronounciable) sauce, named after the place it was
first invented?

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Worcestershire sauce

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What is unique about the lollipop?

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Sugarless Lollipops

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Who?

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Burger King

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Sharad Babu is an enterprising BITSian,
who is settled in Chennai at the moment.
He started a small scale joint in Goa in
the early 2000s, which has grown to be a
hugely popular one, with a king size
share in profits.

Pretty well known to BITSians, what did
he start?

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Food King

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Good food, good mood
ID the brand

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Hard Rock Cafe

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Real life inspiration for ?

Bernard Loiseau was the most famous chef alive in France in the 90s.
He was a major innovator of the nouvelle cuisine, a movement that
emphasized artistic presentation, fresh ingredients.

The man wowed critics and customers alike with his pricey creations
and his impressive three-star restaurant, La Cote d’Or. But when the
Michelin Guide threatened to remove one of his stars, Loiseau
started to break under all the pressure and ultimately died in 2003

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Ratatouille

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The tradition of recycling product X for Y reason

It began in 1966, when a Danish company created X to keep their products
inside fresh.

Reasons for popularity of X being used to store Y:
• Durability: Good quality, durability and 'luxury' look of X
• Looks: X products were also often very pretty, so people kept them as collectibles
• Reduce waste: Since during times of war, people were encouraged to reuse as much
as possible, and not throw too much away.
• Sentimentality: Others say that "the sentimentality of women" leads to hoarding and
keepsakes
• Easy storage: Y supplies were universal, and they were often small, fiddly, and were
perfect to store in a X

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X- Danish Cookie Jar, Y- Sewing Kits

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Who is the 'chef' at Bon Apetite?

James Briscione, a culinary expert, says among the recipes they've
developed with X is Vietnamese apple kebab. He says X surprised them with
an unusual flavour combination for the dish.

"Chicken, pork, mushrooms, strawberries and apples all share this one flavour
compound," Briscione says. The chemical compound "gamma-
Dodecalactone [is] shared by all five ingredients and it makes them a really
fascinating match," he says. Briscione says the dish is a hit.

This is an excerpt of Bon Apetite a restaurant in a certain tech company.

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IBM Watson

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Who's diet prescription for people with sedentary
lifestyle?

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Mahatma Gandhi