2009 Grilling Guide from The Charleston - Huntington West Virginia News Leader

Grilling Trivia Quiz Answers
Test Your Knowledge of Grilling and Barbecuing

Here's the answers to a quick quiz to test grilling and barbecuing trivia knowledge.

1. When was grilling first discovered as a method of cooking?
a.) About 27,000 years ago when, according to paleontologists, man discovered fire - cooking food over fire naturally followed that discovery.

2. What was Louis Armstrong referring to when he recorded "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" in 1927?
b.) Walking with a sexy lady. According to the Dictionary of American Slang, the term barbecue means "sexually attractive young woman."

3. What is the most popular grill used today?
b.) The gas grill.

4. What's the traditional grilled food at a Hawaiian luau?
c.) A whole hog, roasted to perfection by digging a pit in the earth, filled with hardwood and a slow fire of hot coals.

5. What's the leanest grilled cut of pork?
b.) Tenderloin.

6. Where did the first outdoor "barbecue" feast take place?
c.) In Alexandria, Virginia, where George Washington spent three entire days feasting on pork in 1769.

7. What does the term "pig pickin'" mean?
b.) A gathering of people, originally for political purposes, where a whole hog is barbecued and laid out for guests to pull apart, hence the term "pulled pork."

8. Where did the term "barbecue" originate?
c.) From the Mayas who cooked over a "barbacoa," meaning a lattice of thin green sticks suspended over an open fire.

9. What does grilling pork over "direct heat" mean?
b.) Arranging the hot coals in an even bed on the fire grate of the grill and placing the pork above the heat source.

10. In recent times, which two presidents held large barbecue events during their campaigns?
b.) Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter.

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