When Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti joined the crew of the International Space Station in 2015, she arrived with an espresso maker customized for use in space. But you can't have the true espresso experience if you're sipping coffee through a straw stuck in the astronauts' standard-issue plastic drink bags. So engineers in Oregon designed special coffee cups for the International Space Station that rely on surface tension to replace the effects of gravity. Now the astronauts can sip their coffee and conduct experiments in fluid dynamics at the same time.

One of the world's first coffee trading centers was the Red Sea port of Al-Makha, or Mocha, in what country?

A) Egypt

B) Jordan

C) Saudi Arabia

D) Yemen

Previous answer: "Smoke on the Water" describes Montreux "on the Lake Geneva shoreline" in Switzerland.

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