Food Security
Media and Marketing
Grab Bag
Cultural Cuisine
Forks Over Knives
100
Food insecurity in THIS CITY is a major crisis, with 1 in 4 households struggling to afford food, leading to a surge in food bank use and prompting the City to declare an emergency.
What is Toronto?
100
To appeal to teens and kids, fast-food ads often feature tie-ins with movies, or offer these small playthings.
What are toys?
100
According to Canada's food guide, THIS should be your drink of choice.
What is water?
100
Pho – a soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat – is a popular food in THIS COUNTRY where it is served in households, street-stalls, and restaurants nationwide.
What is Vietnam?
100
During a bypass procedure, the surgeon's goal is to create a new path (a "detour") for blood to flow when an existing artery is blocked by fatty deposits (cholesterol). To do this, a section of a healthy blood vessel, called a graft, is harvested from the great saphenous vein, which runs along the inside of this limb.
What is the leg?
200
This is when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and preferences for an active and healthy life.
What is food security?
200
"Betcha can't eat just one," is a slogan from this brand of potato chip.
What is Lays?
200
THIS, which means "mess" in French, is Canada's unofficial dish.
What is poutine?
200
Cultures also differ in the types of habits they associate with food. For example, in Ethiopian culture, it is common to eat with THESE.
What are your hands?
200
What important nutrient do most people associate with animal-based foods?
What is protein?
300
According to the annual Who's Hungry report, Toronto’s food insecurity has hit “crisis levels” as a new report shows one in 10 people in the city are relying on THESE type of banks. Hint: they don't give you money...
What are food banks?
300
Some fast food companies turn to so called BLANKS who use their reach on social media to target kids and teens with advertising.
What are influencers?
300
The phrase to break THIS baked good with someone is to share a meaningful connection over a meal, often bringing together two people or groups who previously had reason to not like each other.
What is bread?
300
Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote that the exchange of food is a fundamental way people connect, bond, and establish relationships.
When food is THIS, it brings people, communities, and even nations closer.
What is "gifted" or shared.
300
"Let food by thy medicine," stated Hippocrates, a physician and philosopher of the classical period who came from this place.
What is Greece?
400
About 95% of THIS continent's farmers rely on rainfall as they do not have irrigation systems. This makes the climate crisis particularly urgent for its residents.
What is Africa?
400
According to the course material, over 99% of all fast-food ads targeting kids are posted by these two companies:
What are McDonald's and Burger King?
400
According to Canada’s food guide, half of your diet should consist of these two things:
What are fruits and vegetables:
400
This rice-based meal is said to be the national dish of Afghanistan:
What is Kabuli Pulao?
400
Livestock production accounts for 14-18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions... name a greenhouse gas:
What is carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide?
500
In Northern Canada herds of this ungulate have declined due to climate change and other human-induced impacts. They are vital to Inuit food security and wellbeing.
What are caribou?
500
In-N-Out Burger has stopped using the number “67” to announce customer orders, after the viral “6-7” trend brought a swarm of teens from THIS GENERATION into the restaurant.
What is Gen Alpha?
500
Food is tied to religion and ritual. In some religions, such as THIS ONE, followers generally avoid eating meat, particularly cows, since they are considered sacred.
What is Hinduism?
500
According to anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, human civilization was born when we started using THIS to cook our food.
What is fire?
500
Name and explain the three parts of the Motivational Triad.
What are:
1. Seek Pleasure/Reward: The brain releases dopamine and other chemicals for rewarding experiences (food, comfort, social connection), reinforcing those behaviours.
2. Avoid Pain/Danger: A strong instinct to steer clear of threats, discomfort, stress, or anything perceived as risky for survival.
3. Conserve Energy/Be Efficient: A preference for the easiest, most effortless path (the path of least resistance) to reduce calorie expenditure.