Thursday, June 7, 2012

Try this at tea time. . .. with a biscuit.


Which beverage on average contains the highest dose of the stimulant caffeine?
A: A cup of tea 
B: A cup of coffee 
C: A can of cola 
Dr Len Fisher of University of Bristol won an Ig Nobel Prize from Harvard’s Annals of Improbable Research for his equation explaining what?
A: Why tea dribbles down a pot's spout, rather than pouring cleanly into the cup 
B: The number of household accidents caused by tea cosies 
C: How best to dunk biscuits in tea 
Put these countries in order, the one with the highest tea consumption per head first.
A: India, Turkey, UK 
B: UK, India, Turkey 
C: Turkey, UK, India 
American Thomas Sullivan is credited with what in 1904?
A: Inventing the modern tea bag 
B: Writing the song Tea for Two and Two for Tea 
C: Masterminding the Boston Tea Party, during which Americans enraged by a British tea tax threw hundreds of pounds of leaves into Boston's harbour 
Which aristocrat began the custom of afternoon tea, according to legend?
A: Charles the 2nd Earl Grey 
B: Anna the 7th Duchess of Bedford 
C: John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich 
"Drugs are like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning." Who said it?
A: Author Will Self, who once snorted heroin on a prime ministerial jet 
B: Noel Gallagher of Oasis 
C: Thomas DeQuincey, author of Confessions of an Opium-Eater 

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