- Which song about coffee, written in 1940 by Ben Oakland and Milton Drake but made famous in a 1941 recording by The Inkspots, contains the line “I love coffee, I love tea”
- Brazil is the world’s largest producer of coffee, but which Asian country is second largest (2017 figures from the International Coffee Organization)?
- Which kind of coffee gets its name from the hood worn by an order of monks, whose colour it is said to resemble?
- And which kind of coffee gets its name from the Italian for “forced out”?
- What was the name of the London coffee house that became the site of the first London Stock Exchange?
- Who directed the 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes?
- What is the only US state to produce coffee commercially?
- What is the name of the most expensive coffee in the world, famously made from beans which have first passed through the digestive system of the civet cat?
- In 1777, Frederick of Prussia made coffee illegal, because he thought it interfered with consumption of another drink. Which drink?
- Which Japanese author mentions coffee frequently in his novels; 79 times in The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, 73 times in Kafka on the Shore and another 67 in Dance Dance Dance?
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- Which song about coffee, written in 1940 by Ben Oakland and Milton Drake but made famous in a 1941 recording by The Inkspots, contains the line “I love coffee, I love tea”
A: Java Jive - Brazil is the world’s largest producer of coffee, but which Asian country is second largest (2017 figures from the International Coffee Organization)?
A: Vietnam - Which kind of coffee gets its name from the hood worn by an order of monks, whose colour it is said to resemble?
A: Cappuccino - And which kind of coffee gets its name from the Italian for “forced out”?
A: Espresso - What was the name of the London coffee house that became the site of the first London Stock Exchange?
A: Jonathan’s - Who directed the 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes?
A: Jim Jarmusch - What is the only US state to produce coffee commercially?
A: Hawaii - What is the name of the most expensive coffee in the world, famously made from beans which have first passed through the digestive system of the civet cat?
A: Kopi Luwak - In 1777, Frederick of Prussia made coffee illegal, because he thought it interfered with consumption of another drink. Which drink?
A: Beer - Which Japanese author mentions coffee frequently in his novels; 79 times in The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, 73 times in Kafka on the Shore and another 67 in Dance Dance Dance
A: Haruki Murakami
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