Office Lunch Break

A short food-and-drink board with no personal questions and several quick calculations.

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Office Lunch Break
Coffee BreakTea TimeSandwich CounterLunch Math
100Coffee is brewed from which roasted material?100Which plant supplies the leaves used for tea?100A typical closed sandwich places its filling where?100Three colleagues split 18 dumplings equally. How many does each receive?
200Which substance gives coffee its stimulating effect?200Tea's stimulating effect comes primarily from which substance?200Which two adjectives describe the sandwich as an early Western food?200A lunch starts at 12:20 and lasts 35 minutes. When does it end?
300Name the commercially available coffee with most caffeine removed.300An early credible record of tea drinking dates to which century?300What is food atop one slice of bread called?300Four sandwiches are each cut in half. How many pieces result?
400According to the source, at what temperature is coffee usually served?400Which fruit supplies the base for cranberry sauce?400Which two round or rolled forms fit the cited British definition?400A 45-dollar budget pays 13 dollars and then 17 dollars. What remains?
500What warm drink can be prepared with cocoa powder or melted chocolate?500Which small British pie traditionally contains dried fruit and spices?500Continue the doubling pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, ...
600What is the name of the log-shaped French Christmas cake?600Which general term covers sweet food made chiefly from sugar or chocolate?
700Which edible house is built from spiced cookie dough?700What flavoring is produced from cured orchid pods?
800What sweet food do bees make using flower nectar?
900Which baking ingredient helps bread dough rise?

Adults · 25 of 25 clues written · final round · about 20 minutes

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20 of 26 answers carry the sentence they were checked against · 6 make no factual claim

Play time assumes about 40 seconds a clue plus three minutes for the final round. Nothing is saved to a server and no account is needed. How answers are checked.

Every clue, every answer, and what it was checked against

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Coffee Break

  1. Coffee is brewed from which roasted material? 100

    roasted ground coffee beansChecked against: Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted ground coffee beans.Source, pinned revision

  2. Which substance gives coffee its stimulating effect? 200

    caffeineChecked against: Darkly colored and bitter, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available.Source, pinned revision

  3. Name the commercially available coffee with most caffeine removed. 300

    decaffeinated coffeeChecked against: Darkly colored and bitter, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available.Source, pinned revision

  4. According to the source, at what temperature is coffee usually served? 400

    hotChecked against: It is usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common.Source, pinned revision

  5. What warm drink can be prepared with cocoa powder or melted chocolate? 500

    Hot chocolateChecked against: Hot chocolate, also known as hot cocoa or drinking chocolate, is a heated drink consisting of shaved or melted chocolate or cocoa powder, and heated milk or water.Source, pinned revision

Tea Time

  1. Which plant supplies the leaves used for tea? 100

    Camellia sinensisChecked against: Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which originated in the borderlands of south-western China, north-east India and northern Myanmar.Source, pinned revision

  2. Tea's stimulating effect comes primarily from which substance? 200

    caffeineChecked against: Tea has a stimulating effect in humans, primarily due to its caffeine content.Source, pinned revision

  3. An early credible record of tea drinking dates to which century? 300

    third century ADChecked against: An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the third century AD, in a medical text written by Chinese physician Hua Tuo.Source, pinned revision

  4. Which fruit supplies the base for cranberry sauce? 400

    CranberriesChecked against: Usually cranberries as fruit are cooked into a compote or jelly, known as cranberry sauce.Source, pinned revision

Sandwich Counter

  1. A typical closed sandwich places its filling where? 100

    between slices of breadChecked against: A sandwich is a dish typically consisting variously of meat, cheese, sauces, and vegetables used as a filling between slices of bread, or placed atop a slice of bread (known as an Open sandwich); or, more generally, any dish in which bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type.Source, pinned revision

  2. Which two adjectives describe the sandwich as an early Western food? 200

    portable, convenient foodChecked against: The sandwich began as a portable, convenient food in the Western world, and over time it has become prevalent worldwide.Source, pinned revision

  3. What is food atop one slice of bread called? 300

    Open sandwichChecked against: A sandwich is a dish typically consisting variously of meat, cheese, sauces, and vegetables used as a filling between slices of bread, or placed atop a slice of bread (known as an Open sandwich); or, more generally, any dish in which bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type.Source, pinned revision

  4. Which two round or rolled forms fit the cited British definition? 400

    wraps and bagelsChecked against: In Britain, the British Sandwich Association defines a sandwich as "any form of bread with a filling, generally assembled cold"; a definition which includes wraps and bagels, but potentially excludes dishes assembled and served hot, such as burgers.Source, pinned revision

  5. Which small British pie traditionally contains dried fruit and spices? 500

    A mince pieChecked against: A mince pie, also known as 'minced pie', is a small British fruit-based mince sweet pie.Source, pinned revision

  6. What is the name of the log-shaped French Christmas cake? 600

    A bûche de NoëlChecked against: The name bûche de Noël originally referred to the Yule log itself, and was transferred to the dessert after that custom had fallen out of popular use.Source, pinned revision

  7. Which edible house is built from spiced cookie dough? 700

    A gingerbread houseChecked against: A gingerbread house is a novelty confectionery shaped like a building that is made of cookie dough, cut and baked into appropriate components like walls and roofing.Source, pinned revision

Lunch Math

  1. Three colleagues split 18 dumplings equally. How many does each receive? 100

    6Self-contained arithmetic; no factual claim is made.

  2. A lunch starts at 12:20 and lasts 35 minutes. When does it end? 200

    12:55Self-contained arithmetic; no factual claim is made.

  3. Four sandwiches are each cut in half. How many pieces result? 300

    8Self-contained arithmetic; no factual claim is made.

  4. A 45-dollar budget pays 13 dollars and then 17 dollars. What remains? 400

    15 dollarsSelf-contained arithmetic; no factual claim is made.

  5. Continue the doubling pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, ... 500

    32Self-contained pattern prompt; no factual claim is made.

  6. Which general term covers sweet food made chiefly from sugar or chocolate? 600

    CandyChecked against: Candy, also known as sweets, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient.Source, pinned revision

  7. What flavoring is produced from cured orchid pods? 700

    VanillaChecked against: Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily obtained from the seed pods of the flat-leaved Mexican and Central American vanilla (V. planifolia).Source, pinned revision

  8. What sweet food do bees make using flower nectar? 800

    HoneyChecked against: Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees.Source, pinned revision

  9. Which baking ingredient helps bread dough rise? 900

    YeastChecked against: Baker's yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise (expand and become lighter and softer) by converting the fermentable sugars present in the dough into carbon dioxide and ethanol.Source, pinned revision

Final round

  1. A table has 24 snack pieces. Six people take three each. How many remain?

    6Self-contained arithmetic; no factual claim is made.

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