1. When (month and year) and where was the first Garlic Festival held?
2. How much money has the Festival raised since the first festival, not including 2005?
3. Who is Mr. Garlic?
4. How many tickets were printed for the very first festival?
5. How much garlic is grown in California each year?
6. Name three of Gilroy’s six sister cities and what country they are in.
7. Much of the garlic grown in California is shipped and processed in Gilroy during the harvest time. When is garlic harvested?
8. Garlic queens and presidents have a chance to visit our Japanese sister city during their reign. When did the land of the rising sun’s garlic city sign up to be Gilroy’s sister city?
9. There are two Gourmet Alley items that sell above the rest. What are they and how many servings are ordered of each rounded to the nearest thousand?
10. How many committees worked with the board of directors and the advisory board to put together the 2005 festival?
11. How many calories are in a clove of garlic?
12. Which group has the largest number of Gourmet Alley volunteers each year?
Answers:
1. August 1979 at Christopher Ranch on Bloomfield Avenue
2. Nearly $7 million has been raised for community organizations and projects.
3. Gerry Foisy
4. Volunteers printed up 5,000 tickets, but so many people showed up that they had to recycle the tickets and re-use them for later visitors
5. 660 million pounds
6. Koror, Republic of Palau; Monticello d’Ongina, Italy; Tecate, Mexico; Takko-machi, Japan; Saint Clar, France; and Angra do Hero’smo, Portugal
7. June, July and August
8. April 18, 1988
9. Garlic bread – 22,000
Pepper steak sandwich – 12,000
10. 27
11. 5
12. Elk’s Lodge, which makes and serves peppersteaks and pasta con pesto.
