Coffee Trivia Answers

Congratulations to Jessica Hilbert of Lobo & Pascale a financial planning firm in Wallingford, CT.  Jessica is our MEGA GRAND PRIZE winner!  She wins a month's worth of coffee and a beautiful new ceramic mug in which to enjoy it.  Our four other runners up also get the same ceramic mugs. 

We sent approximately 2,400 e-mails out.  Winners were supposed to answer all of the questions right, but this ended up being a tougher survey than we expected. Nobody got them all right; though some got close.  We picked the Top 5 responders instead.

The much ballyhooed MEGA GRAND PRIZE Bonus Round consisted of an additional coffee trivia question delivered via a broadcast text message to our
Top 5.   The M.G.P.B.R.winner was the first person to respond with the correct answer.  And that actually happened!

FYI, our bonus question was:  How many beans fit into an average coffee sack?  The answer: 600,000.

Here are the answers to the trivia survey.  As always thanks for playing!


Question 1:  The first Parisian cafe dedicated to serving coffee opened in 1689.  The majority of you answered this one correctly, but we tripped up a few with 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Question 2:  How many coffee bars are there in Italy? There are 200,000 coffee bars.

Question 3:  How many cups of coffee are consumed by the average American each year?  Well the answer is 400.  A lot of you went for the 1,400 which would work out to almost 4 cups of coffee a day.  BUZZZZZZ.

Question 4:  How many cups of coffee are consumed each year worldwide?  The majority of you were correct on this question answering 400 billion cups of coffee.  Wow!

Question 5:  Which country/region has the world's highest per capita annual coffee consumption?  The Scandanavians hold the title for this question.  Probably cold up there, huh?

Question 6:  For how long is coffee typically roasted?  10-20 minutes is the correct answer.  Only half of you got that right, but, at least, nobody said, "1 year."

Question 7:  If you request a latte in Italy, you'll be served a glass of milk.  That's what "latte" means.  Of course, everything tastes better over there, including the milk.

Question 8:  Coffee was allegedly discovered by a goat-herder in Ethiopia.  As legend has it, this occurred when after he noticed that his goats perked up a lot after eating some coffee cherries off the bush.

Question 9:  Cowboys made their coffee by putting ground coffee into a clean sock, immersing it in cold water, and heating it over a campfire.  When ready they would pour the coffee into tin cups to drink.  We're not sure how clean those socks were either!

Thanks for playing!!!!