Sorry That's the Wrong Answer - Answer 22

Question 22: Where did coffee originate?

The correct answer is:

Coffee originated not in Latin America but in Africa, in Kaffa, a southwest province of Ethiopia. In fact, etymologists link the word coffee to "Koffa."

The history of coffee goes at least as far back as the thirteenth century with a number of myths surrounding its first use. The original native population of coffee is thought to have come from Ethiopia, and it was cultivated by Arabs from the 14th century. The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey and northern Africa. Coffee then spread to Balkans, Italy and to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia and then to the Americas