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General Food Trivia

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This board helps players review General Food Trivia through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as 🧂 Ingredients, 🌍 Food Origins, 🔬 Food Science, 🍽️ Famous Dishes, 🤔 Odd Food Facts. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • 🧂 Ingredients

    This tiny seed is the main ingredient in tahini.

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    Sesame

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  • 🌍 Food Origins

    This sandwich is commonly associated with Philadelphia and thinly sliced beef.

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    Cheesesteak

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  • 🔬 Food Science

    This process browns bread and seared meat through reactions between sugars and amino acids.

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    Maillard reaction

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  • 🍽️ Famous Dishes

    This layered pasta dish is baked with sauce, cheese, and wide noodles.

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    Lasagna

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  • 🤔 Odd Food Facts

    This fruit is botanically a berry, even though many people think of it as a vegetable.

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    Tomato

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🧂 Ingredients

$100 — This tiny seed is the main ingredient in tahini.
Sesame
$200 — This grain is traditionally used to make risotto.
Arborio rice
$300 — This spice gives paella and many Indian dishes a deep yellow color.
Turmeric
$400 — This salty Italian cheese is traditionally made from sheep's milk.
Pecorino Romano
$500 — This aromatic resin from a giant fennel relative is used in small amounts in some Indian cooking.
Asafoetida

🌍 Food Origins

$100 — This sandwich is commonly associated with Philadelphia and thinly sliced beef.
Cheesesteak
$200 — This rice-and-seafood dish is strongly associated with Spain's Valencia region.
Paella
$300 — This fermented cabbage dish is a staple of Korean cuisine.
Kimchi
$400 — This chickpea spread is widely linked to Levantine and Middle Eastern food traditions.
Hummus
$500 — This North African chili paste often includes dried peppers, garlic, spices, and oil.
Harissa

🔬 Food Science

$100 — This process browns bread and seared meat through reactions between sugars and amino acids.
Maillard reaction
$200 — This protein network gives bread dough elasticity and chew.
Gluten
$300 — This temperature scale is commonly used by chefs to describe sugar syrup stages such as soft ball and hard crack.
Fahrenheit
$400 — This process uses salt to draw moisture out of foods before cooking or preserving.
Curing
$500 — This enzyme in pineapple can break down proteins and turn gelatin desserts runny.
Bromelain

🍽️ Famous Dishes

$100 — This layered pasta dish is baked with sauce, cheese, and wide noodles.
Lasagna
$200 — This Louisiana dish combines rice, vegetables, and often sausage or seafood in one pot.
Jambalaya
$300 — This French vegetable dish from Provence is associated with eggplant, zucchini, peppers, and tomatoes.
Ratatouille
$400 — This Vietnamese noodle soup is commonly served with herbs and thinly sliced meat.
Pho
$500 — This Georgian cheese-filled bread is often served with egg and butter in its Adjarian form.
Khachapuri

🤔 Odd Food Facts

$100 — This fruit is botanically a berry, even though many people think of it as a vegetable.
Tomato
$200 — This expensive spice comes from the dried stigmas of a crocus flower.
Saffron
$300 — This fish is poisonous if prepared incorrectly and is tightly regulated in Japan.
Fugu
$400 — This fungus is hunted with trained dogs or pigs and can sell for extremely high prices.
Truffle
$500 — This Swedish fermented Baltic herring is famous for cans that can bulge from fermentation gases.
Surströmming

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