We like to quiz, and we like to cook. For the last game of Season 5, Hallie has brought these hobbies together, with six trivia questions about skillets, sautés, and soufflés. We also cook up discussions of the science of taste, celebrity chefs, and the most prestigious cooking competition you’ve never heard of.
1:44: Q1 (Times & Places): What species of human ancestors that lived mainly in the Pleistocene epoch and was mostly replaced by Homo heidelbergensis by 300,000 years ago, was the first to use fire for cooking?
6:21: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What book by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel is about a young girl named Tita who finds that she can only express herself through cooking and is able to affect other people’s emotions through the food she cooks?
11:08: Q3 (Sounds & Screen): What celebrity chef who originally became famous for his bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential, hosted 4 different cooking shows, the first of which, called A Cook’s Tour, ran on Food Network in 2002 and 2003 and the last of which, called Parts Unknown, aired on CNN from 2013 to 2018?
17:33: Q4 (Sports & Games): Considered the culinary equivalent of the Olympics, what world chef championship, held every 2 years, is named for the golden statue of its founder, which is awarded to the winner?
22:22: Q5 (Science): We of course detect saltiness in food that has sodium chloride; we taste sourness in food with acids; we taste sweetness in foods with sugars; and we taste bitterness in foods with certain plant compounds; but what amino acid, found in MSG, causes us to detect umami in our foods?
26:58: Q6 (Everything Else): The Joy of Cooking was privately published in 1931 by what homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri?
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