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Records Involving Food That Went Wrong — Daily trivia Monday, August 3, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Fatalities in competitive eating events are primarily due to what medical emergency?
- AChoking
- BHeart attack
- CDehydration
- DStroke
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Choking
Tragic incidents in competitive eating contests have seen participants die from choking, highlighting the inherent dangers of consuming large quantities of food rapidly.
Q 02A storage tank burst in a US city, releasing a deadly wave of what sticky substance?
- AHoney
- BMolasses
- CMaple Syrup
- DCaramel
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Molasses
The Great Molasses Flood occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 15, 1919, when a large molasses tank burst, releasing a 25-foot wave of molasses that killed 21 people and injured 150.
Q 03A chef's record-attempt pot of which West African dish collapsed while being weighed?
- AFufu
- BEgusi soup
- CJollof rice
- DSuya
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Jollof rice
Nigerian chef Hilda Baci's custom pot buckled as a crane lifted it for weighing at the 2025 World Jollof Festival in Lagos. The food survived, and Guinness World Records later confirmed her record for the largest pot of jollof rice.
Q 04Boston's deadly molasses flood swept through which neighbourhood, then home to many Italian immigrants?
- ABack Bay
- BBeacon Hill
- CNorth End
- DRoxbury
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North End
North End. The tank had leaked for years, and its owner painted it brown to hide the oozing molasses.
Q 05What type of food gave a contest participant severe 'thunderclap headaches'?
- AGinger
- BWasabi
- CMustard
- DChili pepper
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Chili pepper
Chili pepper. He had eaten a Carolina Reaper, then ranked the world's hottest, and doctors found the arteries in his brain had suddenly narrowed.
Q 06In which country did spectators eat a would-be record-breaking giant sandwich before it could be measured?
- ATurkey
- BIran
- CEgypt
- DArgentina
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Iran
Iran. In a Tehran park, the crowd rushed a 1,500-metre sandwich of ostrich and chicken and ate it in minutes, before Guinness officials could measure it.
Q 07Which company's attempt at the world's largest ice pop melted and disrupted New York traffic?
- AKool-Aid
- BMinute Maid
- CCapri Sun
- DSnapple
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Snapple
In 2005, Snapple's attempt to erect a 35,000-pound kiwi-strawberry popsicle in New York resulted in the giant treat melting before it could be stood upright, flooding a city street.
Q 08A burst vat flooded a London slum with what, killing eight people?
- AGin
- BBeer
- CMilk
- DVinegar
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Beer
Beer. A vat of porter burst at the Horse Shoe Brewery, yet the inquest called the deaths an accident and the brewery won back the excise tax on its lost beer.
Q 09What sickened nearly half of the World Marathon Challenge's runners before the first race began?
- AExtreme fatigue
- BDehydration
- CFood poisoning
- DAltitude sickness
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Food poisoning
In the World Marathon Challenge, which involves running seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, approximately half of the participants contracted food poisoning in Cape Town before their first race in Antarctica.
Q 10What disqualified Yangzhou's 4.19-tonne fried rice from a Guinness World Record?
- APart of the dish was hauled off as pig feed
- BThe rice was cooked in hundreds of separate woks
- CThe weighing equipment was never properly certified
- DToo few of the listed chefs actually took part
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Part of the dish was hauled off as pig feed
Part of the dish was hauled off as pig feed. About 150 kg sat out too long to serve, and Guinness says record food must be eaten, not wasted.
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