Alcohol

Question 1

How much alcohol can beer and wine yeasts tolerate?

Answer 1

6 and 16% respectively

Question 2

What is the process called that converts sugars to carbon dioxide and alcohol?

Answer 2

Fermentation

Question 3

What is mead fermented from?

Answer 3

honey

Question 4

Where does the earliest evidence of wine production come from?

Answer 4

Persia

Question 5

What culture produced a corn based alcoholic beverage?

Answer 5

Inca

Question 6

What culture produced an alcoholic drink from honey and balche bark?

Answer 6

Mayans

Question 7

Who discussed the therapeutic benefits of wine in treating numerous ailments and disease?

Answer 7

Hippocrates

Question 8

How was alcohol used medicinally?

Answer 8

removing irritant oils (poison ivy), to relieve sore muscles, as a disinfectant, and anesthetic

Question 9

What religion viewed wine as a gift from God?

Answer 9

Christianity

Question 10

What was the main beverage for peasants in the Middle Ages?

Answer 10

beer, wine was for rich people

Question 11

What was beer called, because it provided important calories, vitamins, and minerals?

Answer 11

aqua vitae (water of life)

Question 12

What is used to preserve and flavour beer?

Answer 12

hops

Question 13

What type of beer is fermented quickly and has a sweet fruity taste?

Answer 13

ales

Question 14

What type of beers are fermented slowly?

Answer 14

lager

Question 15

What is the maximum alcohol content of fermented beverages?

Answer 15

16%

Question 16

How are higher alcohol concentrations achieved?

Answer 16

through distillation

Question 17

Describe the distillation process

Answer 17

boiling a fermented beverage, and condensing the resulting vapour

Question 18

Who discovered distillation?

Answer 18

Arab alchemists

Question 19

What does wine distill into?

Answer 19

brandy

Question 20

What does beer distill into?

Answer 20

whiskey

Question 21

What berries were added to distilled grain alcohol to make gin?

Answer 21

juniper

Question 22

How much gin was produced during the English Gin Craze?

Answer 22

up to 18 million gallons annually

Question 23

What is the principle psychoactive constituent in alcohol?

Answer 23

ethanol

Question 24

How does ethanol work?

Answer 24

stimulates receptors of GABA, the major inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system; classed as a depressant since it increases the inhibitory effect of GABA

Question 25

How does the body protect itself from ethanol?

Answer 25

alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes present in the stomach lining and liver catalyze the oxidation of ethanol into acetaldehyde, and converted into harmless acetic acid

Question 26

How much alcohol can the body metabolize per hour?

Answer 26

7-10 ml of ethanol

Question 27

What causes a hangover?

Answer 27

an allergic response to ethanol

Question 28

What blood alcohol level causes certain death?

Answer 28

0.55% or higher

Question 29

What are symptoms of alcohol withdrawal?

Answer 29

skin crawling, anxiety, hallucinations, seizures