(what the dormouse said)

August 24, 2016 11:28 AM

"Welcome to Five Course Trivia! Five days a week, we’ll post five questions about something from the culinary world, from soup to nuts and all dishes in between."
posted by Iridic (10 comments total)

(The site was conceived as a training tool for Learned League players, but the questions are open to everyone with a passing interest in trivia or food.)
posted by Iridic at 11:28 AM on August 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

the questions are open to everyone with a passing interest in trivia or food

Or in trivial food.
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:57 AM on August 24, 2016

They seem to have some trouble with arithmetic:

6. What sticky-rice cake dish, which can molded into desserts like wagashi or daifuku, is being used in the ice cream variety seen here?

7. Give the name for the bowl seen here. It is used in Japanese cuisine as either a bowl for rice, or for a cup used to drink tea? Its name is Japanese for “tea bowl”.

posted by cerebus19 at 12:01 PM on August 24, 2016

That just sucked away an hour of my life with a slurping sound as loud as a good noodle shop.

(I like to think of their problem with arithmetic as just an overenthusiasm for their subject, and I'm good with that.)
posted by dlugoczaj at 2:09 PM on August 24, 2016

Wow. I know more about Japanese food that I thought. I guess reading the menu at the ramen place--even though I order the same thing every time--paid off.
posted by tippy at 2:59 PM on August 24, 2016

Cerebus, I got a serious headache figuring out that by "arithmetic" you'd meant "grammar"

Which, admittedly, could just be a self-aware thing having to do with the difficulties demonstrated in the thing being talked about?
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:18 PM on August 24, 2016

I thought he meant that there were supposed to be five questions every day (the five courses) and that on many occasions there were more than five. That's their arithmetic problem--they can't count.
posted by dlugoczaj at 5:39 PM on August 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh, okay, I was looking at things like "can molded into" and the non-question "It is used … to drink tea?"
posted by DoctorFedora at 7:17 PM on August 24, 2016

Not so good at geography either:

It’s often considered a comfort food dish in Japan, but it is more associated with the cities of Hiroshima and Kansai.

(Nitpicky, I know, but c'mon, it's a trivia site.)
posted by Umami Dearest at 5:22 AM on August 25, 2016

Trivia is basically fundamentally predicated on nitpicking. You're well within your rights to point out, essentially, that Africa isn't a country.
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:05 PM on August 25, 2016