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Coffee & Tea Around the World Quiz

Explore twenty carefully sourced facts about coffee and tea, spanning cultivation, preparation, chemistry, language, and celebrated drinking traditions across the globe.

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The coffee “beans” inside a coffee cherry are botanically what part of the fruit?	—
Which coffee species supplies most of the world’s specialty-grade coffee?	—
Which coffee-processing method removes fruit from the seeds before they are dried?	—
What is the tawny foam on top of a freshly extracted espresso called?	—
Which tool traditionally brews Turkish coffee in a small long-handled pot?	—
Which reusable filter is central to traditional Costa Rican chorreador brewing?	—
Which plant provides traditional black, green, white, and oolong teas?	—
Which processing step is allowed to proceed furthest when making black tea?	—
What powdered Japanese tea is whisked directly into water rather than strained out?	—
Which blossoms traditionally scent Chinese jasmine tea?	—
Which drink combines black tea, milk, sweetener, and warming spices in South Asia?	—
Which chewy ingredient gave Taiwanese bubble tea its best-known nickname?	—
Which South American plant is steeped and commonly sipped through a filtered metal straw?	—
What does the tea-processing abbreviation CTC stand for?	—
Which green tea is traditionally combined with fresh mint and sugar in Moroccan tea service?	—
What reusable culture ferments sweetened tea into kombucha?	—
What is the brief bubbling stage after hot water first wets fresh coffee grounds?	—
Which brewing variable usually increases extraction when coffee grounds are made finer?	—
Which Japanese tea ceremony utensil is the bamboo whisk used to mix matcha?	—
Which statement accurately describes commercially decaffeinated coffee?	—

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Explore twenty carefully sourced facts about coffee and tea, spanning cultivation, preparation, chemistry, language, and celebrated drinking traditions across the globe.