Coffee Quiz
Coffee Resources
Test your knowledge of the coffee industry
Focus your cursor on the multiple-choice answers to reveal the correct answer for each question. Be sure to answer the question yourself first!
- In which two countries is the most coffee grown?
- Brazil and Colombia is correct
- Colombia and Nicaragua
- Nicaragua and Costa Rica
- Brazil and Costa Rica
- Coffee is grown in Brazil, Colombia (the biggest two producers by far), Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Uganda, Rwanda, Angola, Kenya, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Indonesia, India and Thailand. In fact, coffee is grown in just about every region of the South.
- How important is coffee as an export commodity?
- Most important
- Second most important is correct
- Fifth most important
- Tenth most important
- Coffee is the second most important traded commodity, after oil.
- Where does coffee originally come from?
- Guatemala
- Ethiopia is correct
- Russia
- China
- Coffee is thought to have originated in the highlands of Ethiopia about 1,000 years ago.
- How many people depend on growing coffee for their livelihood?
- 1 million
- 5 million
- 20 million is correct
- More than 20 million people depend on coffee for their livelihoods.
- The first coffee-house in the UK opened in:
- 1650 is correct
- 1893
- 1914
- The first coffee-house in the UK opened in 1650 in Oxford.
- Uganda depends on exports of coffee for:
- 20% of its income
- 95% of its income
- 70% of its income is correct
- Uganda depends on exports of coffee for 70% of its income, although for the period 1982-1986 coffee accounted for 95% of income from exports.
- What proportion of people in Uganda live off the land?
- 86% is correct
- 100%
- 20%
- 86% of people in Uganda live off the land.
- Which country is the biggest supplier of coffee to the UK?
- USA
- Brazil
- Uganda is correct
- Uganda is the biggest supplier of coffee to the UK.
- How much of the world's coffee is consumed in the countries that produce it?
- 22% is correct
- 80%
- 100%
- 22% of the world's coffee is consumed in the countries that produce it.
- How big is Uganda's debt?
- $127,000 USD
- $2,660 million USD is correct
- $3 million USD
- In June 1993, Uganda's debt stood at £2,660 million GBP, or $144.20 USD for each person. In 1991, Uganda had a per-capita income of $170 USD.
