Food in JEOPARDY!
Bite-Sized Citations:
Terms to Nosh on:
Signature Dishes and Sophisticated Snacks:
Parched for Knowledge:
1000

This act was justified by a logical calculation that "2 out of 3 a live is betteren three dead."

What is Eating the Child? or Eating the baby?

1000

This essay begins with the line: “1. First things first, you gotta get dumped.”

What is Samantha Irby’s “Rejection Chicken”?

1000

Sidney Mintz, the father of food anthropology, coined these two terms for understanding interpersonal versus structural perspectives.

What are Inside and Outside meanings?

1000

The crop that enslaved Africans were allowed allowed to grow and cultivate that also made a tasty and refreshing addition to any meal. 

What is Watermelon? 

1000

This soft drink is indicative of United States national pride throughout World War II. A sip would transport soldiers back home.

What is Coca-Cola?

2000

Though we think we lot a lot of different choices when purchasing food, this crop is directly involved in most of what we eat including our meat, poultry and fish.

What is Corn?

2000

This item will make "a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked  or boiled [or.]... in a fricasie, or a ragoust."

What is a Healthy child, well nursed,... A year old?

2000

 U.S. legislation policies such as Anti-Foraging laws have led to this concept being stripped away from most of the indigenous populations.

What is Food Sovereignty?

2000

This native american food was created from ingredients found in commodity boxes received during the 70s.

What was Frybread/Fry Bread?

2000

This drink contained all the dreams of Yiyun Li's youth.

What is Tang?

3000

The name of a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to improving wages and work conditions of migrant works who pressured Taco Bell to pay more per pound for tomatoes it bought from growers. 

What is the Coalition of Imokallee Works? 

3000

Those referred to here as well as the author and title of the work in which this citation appears: "They were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights!

Who/what are the hogs, Upton Sinclair and The Jungle?

3000

This phenomenon is pervasive in communications about food, from food labels, to marketing, to social media and undermines our epistemic capacities.

What is BS or Bullshit?

3000

This crop and salad staple is said to have originated as a wild plant in the Andean region and first domesticated by the Mayas and Aztecs and named in Nauhautl, the language of the Aztecs. 

What is the tomato? (Tomatl)

3000

This Caribbean Soup symbolizes the freedom of Haiti. It is made with squash, potatoes, and beef among other seasonings.

What is Soup Joumou?

4000

This prospective law if passed will give the United States Department of Agriculture the power to close down plants which produce contaminated meat.

What is "Kevin's Law"?

4000

The author of this in-your-face opening line: "I know this about you: you love chicken tenders."

Who is Helen Rosner? 

4000

This political approach favors free market capitalism, deregulation and reduction in government spending. 

What is Neo-Liberalism?

4000

In this food-filled vignette movie, the dying wife creates this final dish for her family prior to her death. Eat it while it’s hot!

What is Fried Rice?

4000

This alkaline chemical is used with water in the process of making ramen and it is what gives the noodles their elasticity and chewiness. 

What is Lye? (What is lye water? What is Kansui?) 

5000

Begun in the early 1960s by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong and other organizers, this organization is the US's first enduring and largest farm workers union. 

What is The United Farm Workers (UFW)?

5000

The author of the following:
"The desert marches to the sea,
a haughty implacable army." 

Who is Niyi Osundare, "Deep Green"?

5000

This French term is a direct reference to land and it refers to the sense of place of foods and wines. It is the sum of all things that give individuality to a particular area's agriculture.

What is "terroir"?

5000

Concetta gave this Italian dish as a peace offering to Rivka and Hannah in the play “Give Us Bread”

What is Macaroni?

5000

This understanding of water is missing in many laws governing water rights and that leads to overuse and depletion of groundwater supply. 

What is a "common pool resource"? 

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