The coffee farmers cooperative union for which Meskela works gets its name from this region of Ethiopia.
What is Oromia?
200
This large paper display is usually designed to be fixed on a vertical surface.
What is a poster?
200
Coffee beans are this color before being roasted.
What is green?
200
Roasters mix different types of coffee to achieve a particular taste in a process referred to by this term.
What is blending?
300
Ethiopia's major river, which flows into Egypt, is known by this color-related name.
What is the Blue Nile?
300
Meskela was inspired to form a cooperative in Ethiopia after having seen how they worked in this Asian country.
What is Japan?
300
A usually circular mat placed under beverages...or an American amusement park ride whose predecessor was Russian.
What is a coaster?
300
When the coffee cherries are ready to be picked, they turn this color.
What is red?
300
Stock exchanges in this American city work with dealers and influence the price of coffee.
What is New York?
400
This geographic term describes Ethiopia's relationship to a major body of water, meaning that the country has no coastline.
What is landlocked?
400
It is Meskela's position in the coffee farmers' cooperative.
What is general manager?
400
A braggart.
What is a boaster?
400
The skin that covers the coffee bean is referred to by this name, also the term used to describe the writing material made from sheep skin.
What is parchment?
400
The largest coffeehouse in the world is headquartered in this northwestern American city.
What is Seattle?
1050
Ethiopia's access to the Red Sea is blocked by Eritrea, Somalia and this smaller country.
What is Djibouti?
1050
Meskela worked in this Ethiopian government agency as a senior expert after finishing university.
What is the Agricultural Bureau?
1050
This varicella virus is responsible for chicken pox and the shingles.
What is Zoster?
1050
This outside part of the coffee bean is not edible, but can be used for biofuel.
What is the husk?
1050
The name of this multinational company, headquartered in Cincinnati, is made up of the names of two men who immigrated to America from England and Ireland.