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Where did protesters dump 342 chests of tea in 1773?

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  1. 1 Easy

    How did Mongolian nomads use tea bricks besides brewing them?

    Answer: As money

    Why: Early 1900s travelers in remote Mongolia and Tibet found sellers turned down gold and silver but took tea.

  2. 2 Medium

    Which tea gets its smoky taste from pinewood fires?

    Answer: Lapsang souchong

    Why: Makers dial the smokiness up or down by how close the leaves sit to the fire and how long they stay.

  3. 3 Hard

    What did the 1773 Tea Act do to legal tea prices in America?

    Answer: Lowered them

    Why: It kept the old Townshend duty on tea in place, so many colonists still rejected it as unfair taxation.

  4. 4 Easy

    Which fizzy drink is tea fermented by a jelly-like culture?

    Answer: Kombucha

    Why: That rubbery culture is called a SCOBY, short for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.

  5. 5 Medium

    Which country's tea was the Cutty Sark built to carry?

    Answer: China

    Why: That same year the Suez Canal opened, giving steamships a much shorter route to China's tea.

  6. 6 Hard

    What did the first known tea book tell readers to add?

    Answer: Salt

    Why: Lu Yu's book also condemned the popular habit of boiling tea with onion, ginger, orange peel or mint.

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