This quiz was inspired by Galaxy Babe, who said her father thought Chinese tea was a drug…

Note: This quiz is based on research, because your Editor was born in a place so benighted that it thought iced tea was a Thing.

Short answers. Quick, before your tea gets cold.

1. According to archaeologists, how far back do tea canisters go?
2. If you study the Ch'a Ching, are you a martial artist?
3. In 1606 the Dutch first imported some tea. What island did it come from?
4. What did Mercurius Politicus do in 1658 that changed the London scene?
5. What was Catherine of Braganza's main vice?
6. We know what the tea tax did to relations with the Colonies. But what unintended consequence did it have in the UK in the 18th Century?
7. What did William Pitt the Younger do that made him wildly unpopular with gangsters?
8. Why were tea races so popular in the 1860s?
9. What did the British government do about tea during the two world wars?
10. What did an American accidentally invent in 1908?

Did you know all that? Take a bite of your biscuit, and click on the teapot for the answers.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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