ROUND 6: Sports/Leisure/Idleness - Café culture
1. Name the left-bank Parisian boulevard frequented by
existentialist loafers in the 1950s, where you could have seen
Jean-Paul Sartre sitting and thinking at the Café des Deux
Magots [MaGOH]?
Boulevard Saint-Germain
2. This Italian city was the first European city to import coffee.
On one side of its famous square is Caffè Florian, founded in
1720, where conspirators used to hatch plots against the
Austrians who frequented Caffè Quadri across the square.
Venice
3. Legend has it that in this African country a goatherd first
discovered coffee berries and then passed on the secret to some
monks. In real life, before the Arabs discovered how to brew hot
coffee, the people of this goatherd's country drank cold
fermented coffee. What country is it?
Ethiopia
4. Which Yemeni port held the monopoly on coffee exports from the
Arabian Peninsula through the 15th to 17th centuries? A kind of
coffee as well as a blend of coffee with another beverage take
their name from this port.
Mocha
5. What country has been the world's biggest coffee producer since
the 19th century?
Brazil
6. According to legend, the bakers of Vienna saved the city from
the Turks in 1683, and as a reward, they were allowed to bake
a pastry based on an image that appears on the Turkish flag.
What is this pastry?
croissant [means "crescent"]
7. A poet named a poem he published in 1917 after an effete
character who haunts society drawing rooms. The character
complains: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
Name either the poet or the title character.
T.S. Eliot OR J. Alfred Prufrock
8. Who composed the Coffee Cantata in 1734, a tale of a naughty
German girl who refuses to give up coffee drinking? It is one of
this composer's few secular cantatas.
J.S. Bach
9. Suppose you're in a Starbucks. Let's say you want a coffee.
You've got the choice of three sizes: venti, tall, and grande.
Arrange these three Starbucks sizes in order from smallest to
largest.
tall, grande, venti [smallest to largest]
10. Name the coffeehouse that used to exist at 134 Yorkville, owned
by Bernie Fiedler, where countless musicians got their start in
the 1960s and 70s.
The Riverboat