Q 01/05

Which snack is named after a 19th-century Presbyterian minister who preached vegetarianism and temperance?

A) Melba toast

B) Graham cracker

C) Lorna Doone

D) Garibaldi biscuit

Answer · why

B) Graham cracker

The Graham cracker was inspired by Sylvester Graham, whose followers, the Grahamites, gave up meat and alcohol and championed bran bread.

Q 02/05

Which talk show host wheeled a wagon of fat on stage in 1988 after losing 67 pounds on the Optifast diet?

A) Oprah Winfrey

B) Joan Rivers

C) Sally Jessy Raphael

D) Phil Donahue

Answer · why

A) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey showed off size 10 jeans on that episode, but she quickly regained much of the weight once she returned to real food.

Q 03/05

Which actor landed in hospital after copying the all-fruit diet of Steve Jobs to play him in a 2013 film?

A) Christian Bale

B) Ashton Kutcher

C) Noah Wyle

D) Jesse Eisenberg

Answer · why

B) Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher said his pancreas levels went haywire on the fruitarian regime he adopted for the film Jobs; the Apple co-founder had practiced it sinc...

Q 04/05

Which breakfast cereal was created to ease indigestion among patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium?

A) Shredded wheat

B) Puffed rice

C) Corn flakes

D) Grape-Nuts

Answer · why

C) Corn flakes

Corn flakes grew out of experiments by brothers John and Will Kellogg while John ran the sanitarium, and a former patient, C. W. Post, was soon sellin...

Q 05/05

The paleo diet, popularized by Loren Cordain's books, claims to copy what humans ate in which period?

A) Bronze Age

B) Iron Age

C) Copper Age

D) Stone Age

Answer · why

D) Stone Age

Stone Age eating got a 1975 book of its own from gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin, who declared that humans ate only flesh until 10,000 years ago.