NYU
Food Sustainability
Fun Food Facts!!
TBOS General
TBOS Eboard
100

NYU students flock to (but never walk under) this iconic Washington Square structure, which appears in nearly every campus photo.

What is the Washington Square Arch?

100

Roughly 30% of all food produced worldwide ends up here instead of being eaten.

What is the trash/landfill?

100

Americans eat about 3 billion of these every year, especially on Super Bowl Sunday.

What are chicken wings?

100

The number of dining hall coordinators TBOS has.

What is 5?

100

The dining hall coordinator for Downstein.

Who is Lauren Cordero?

200

This color, shared by NYU’s logo and merch, is famously known as NYU’s official school color. (Be specific)

What is violet?

200

This common plant-based protein requires up to 13x less water to produce than beef.

What are beans? (Accept “legumes.”)

200

The average person worldwide eats 27 pounds per year of this dairy product, making it the most consumed dairy food on Earth.

What is cheese?

200

The prize we gave away during our mid-semester social.

What is a JBL Speaker?

200

Branson Wu's favourite dining hall?

What is delicious downstein?

300

This animal is NYU’s official mascot.

What is the Bobcat?

300

Switching just one meal per week from beef to this meat can reduce a person’s annual carbon footprint by the same amount as taking a car off the road for three months.

What is chicken?

300

Humans eat more of this fruit than any other (over 100 billion of them consumed globally each year).

What are bananas?

300

The name of the movie featured at the free movie night that former president Robert invited TBOS to, for which he offered them tickets to the premiere.

What is Rescuing Hope?

300

The eboard member double-majoring in economics and mathematics.

Who is Vivian Reutens?

400

These are the 10 NYU schools in New York. (Name all 10)

What is CAS, Stern, Gallatin, Tisch, Steinhardt, Rory Meyers, Silver School, SPS, Tandon, and Liberal Studies?

400

These foods (fruits and vegetables that look “ugly”) are perfectly edible but often thrown out before they ever reach stores.

What is imperfect produce?

400

This grain provides roughly 20% of all human calories consumed worldwide.

What is rice?

400

The amount of pounds of food we were able to deliver within the first two weeks of commencing deliveries this semester.

What is 1500 pounds?

400

The eboard member who went to high school in Houston.

Who is Owen Leung?

500

NYU was founded in 1831 with the mission of making higher education accessible to everyone, not just the wealthy, based on the ideas of this U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

Who is Albert Gallatin?

500

This everyday kitchen appliance is responsible for the highest share of household food waste because people often store items incorrectly.

What is the refrigerator?

500

This protein makes up roughly 36% of all meat consumption globally, making it the world’s most eaten meat.

What is pork?

500

The pounds of food waste and trash sorted during our annual waste audit. (2 separate answers: one for food waste and one for trash)

What is 20 Ib of food waste and 50 Ib of trash?

500

The major/s of co-president Chloe Stone's degree?

What is a double major in Politics and Spanish & Linguistics?

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