After you whiz through the Amateur Contest, try the "Primo". The "Primo" test is for REAL chileheads. Get a perfect score and you are ready to be a professor at the Pepper Joe Hot Pepper University.

"AMATEUR Chilehead Trivia Contest"

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1.Which hot pepper is the hottest?

cayene
habanero
jalapeno
pueblo

2. What is the popular test called to measure the heat in hot peppers subjectively?

Scoville
Pepper Joe Hot Scale
U.S.A. Heat Test
Melville

3. What is the #1 condiment in the u.s.a. today?

ketsup
mustard
relish
salsa

4. Where is the most heat located in hot peppers?

skin
bottom half
stringy ribs
stem

5. At the chilehead convention at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn, NY, which speaker has totally filled the auditorium?

Dave Dewitt
Pepper Joe
Amal Naj
Paul Bosland

6. If you eat a hot pepper and your mouth is on fire, what is best to put the fire out?

beer
water and bread
icecubes
milk and bread

7. A pepper has to turn red to be hot:

true
false

8. What type of hot pepper is easiest to dry?

thin skin
thick skin
short stemmed
does not matter

9. All hot peppers eventually turn red when fully ripe?

true
false

10. Hot peppers are a close relative of black pepper?

true
false