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TV Coffee houses

How well do you know your television coffee drinking houses?

Match the TV show with the name of the local where the characters gather for a cup of brew.

1. ___________ Frasier                               A. Monk’s Café
2. ___________ Friends                              B. Luke’s Diner
3. ___________ Seinfeld                             C. Central Perk
4. ___________ Gilmore Girls                      D. Double R Diner
5. ___________ Twin Peaks                        E. Café Nervosa

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Quiz Questions

1.  What year was the first coffee drank in space?

2.  Which famous British insurance market started out as a coffeehouse?

3.  Who are the biggest coffee drinkers in the world?

4.  What year did England’s first coffeehouse open in and in which area?

5. What price at auction was paid for the most expensive cans of coffee in the world?

6. What is the name of the world’s most expensive coffee?

7. What is the name of the fruit that grows on the coffee tree?

8. Which Pope loved coffee and authorised its use?

9. What is the name of the oldest café in Paris?

10. Depending on rainfall, how many times can a coffee tree flower in a year?

11. How do you stop a coffee stain on a white garment becoming permanent?

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Answers to TV Coffee houses

1. E

2. C

3. A

4. B

5. D

Answers to Quiz Questions

1. The first coffee drank in space was in 1968 by the Apollo 7 crew.

2.  Lloyd’s of London began as Lloyd’s a 17th century London coffeehouse where seafarers and marine – insurance brokers met to conduct their business.

3. The Finns.  Finns consume about 30 pounds of coffee per person per year. That’s around 1200 cups a year for every man, woman and child in the country.

4. England’s first coffeehouse opened in Oxford in 1650. Fifty years later, there were over 2000 in London alone.

5. Andy Warhol’s “Martinson Coffee” sold at auction for $3,824,000 in 2006.  The silkscreen depicts 18 cans of coffee. That’s $212,444 per can!

6.  Kopi Luwak, or Civet coffee can go for $300 a pound.  It’s made by collecting undigested coffee beans from droppings of the palm civet, a small mongoose-like mammal of Southeast Asia!

7.  The fruit of the coffee tree is called a cherry because it is bright red when ripe.  The cherries grow clustered down the length of a branch, taking six months to turn from green to yellow to red.

8. Pope Clement VIII

9. Café Procope

10. 8 Times

11. Squirt Soda Water on it immediately!