Survivorman - Food Survival

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It's such an all-consuming fear; going without food. But there are so many misconceptions about this when it comes to survival. Take this quiz and find out what you really need to know about eating when you're lost and surviving. ...Les

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Best known as the Canadian Screen Award-winning producer, creator and star of the hit TV series Survivorman, Les Stroud is the only producer in the history of television to produce an internationally broadcast series entirely written, videotaped and hosted alone.

With Les known as the original genre creator of ‘Survival TV’, Survivorman is one of the highest rated shows in the history of OLN Canada, the Science Channel US and Discovery Channel US, and remains the highest-rated repeat show on the Discovery Channel. Survivorman is licensed for broadcast worldwide, with ratings in the US hitting 2 million on individual episodes. He has been nominated for 27 Canadian Screen Awards (formerly the Geminis) and has won for Best Writer (twice) and Best Photography. Survivorman has aired on the following television networks: OLN Canada, The Science Channel US, Discovery Channel International, City TV [Rogers] Canada)

Stroud has appeared in and/or produced numerous television specials including National Geographic’s Grizzly Gauntlet, hosting the 20th Anniversary of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, I Shouldn’t Be Alive, The Science of Survival, Surviving Sharks, Expedition Everest, Surviving Urban Disasters, The Mad Trapper, Surviving Alaska, The True Story of Robinson Crusoe, Shark Feeding Frenzy, After the Experiment, Deadly Waters, and the documentary feature Off the Grid with Les Stroud. He was also featured in the series Extraordinary Lives.

In 2010 and 2011, Les was Executive Producer/Host of the hit kids’ TV series Survive This (YTV, Cartoon Network, Nat Geo Kids) and made celebrity guest appearances on Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Top Chef and MTV Cribs. He Executive Produced/Hosted the NHL celebrity survival series Survival Challenge (OLN/Rogers), and the Discovery Channel series, Les Stroud; Beyond Survival earned top ratings on both Discovery Channel US and OLN in Canada, and on at least one occasion during prime time viewing was the highest rated show among men 24 to 59 in all categories on TV.

A celebrated keynote speaker, musician, and author, both his books Survive! – Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere–Alive! (Harper Collins) and Will to Live (Harper Collins) have made the bestseller's list. Nominated for Best Travel Writer at the Canadian National Magazine awards, Les’s third book Beyond Survivorman launched into stores in January 2014. Les took home Best Writer in Non Fiction at the 2013 and 2015 Canadian Screen Awards as well as the Executive Producers Award for Excellence at the Lewiston Film Festival.

A proud member of the prestigious Explorers Club, Les received Fellow (highest rank) of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Les has received both the Distinguished Alumni award and was nominated for the Premieres award for excellence for work in his field. He contributes to dozens of charities and benefits, is an ambassador for ShelterBox International, and is an advanced survival trainer for the Canadian Military Armed Forces as well as sits on the board of advisors for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Organization.

Food Survival Quiz Questions

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Question 1

How long can a person go without food?

  • A
    2 days
  • B
    Around a week
  • C
    Until lunchtime
  • D
    Around 30 days

Question 2

Eating more food in a survival situation will result in depleting valuable water out of your digestive system. True or False?

  • A
    True
  • B
    False
  • C
    True, but only if the food is not cooked
  • D
    True, but only if it is spicy food

Question 3

Which one of these is considered one of the most perfect survival foods?

  • A
    Power Bars
  • B
    Peanuts
  • C
    Cheese
  • D
    Pizza

Question 4

What are some of the symptoms you will experience when going without food in a survival situation?

  • A
    Aggravation
  • B
    Bizarre dreams
  • C
    Lethargy
  • D
    All of the above

Question 5

You should always ration food if you find yourself in a survival situation. True or False?

  • A
    False
  • B
    False, you should gorge on as much food as possible at first to store the energy in your body for the future
  • C
    True, but only if there are more than four people
  • D
    True

Question 6

What kind of non-meat or wild food is the easiest to find or pick in the wilderness?

  • A
    Those that have ample amounts of green leaves growing in alternate formation
  • B
    Tree bark
  • C
    Berries
  • D
    Those that grow in profusion in easy to reach places such as "cattail/bullrush" on the edge of a swamp or pond

Question 7

What is the biggest misleading aspect of gathering wild edibles?

  • A
    That it is hard
  • B
    That if you follow the animal's trails they will always lead you to a bounty of plants
  • C
    That they're always there, when in fact they are only there when in-season
  • D
    That it is easy

Question 8

When testing if something is poisonous (or if you have an allergy) before eating it safely, what three things can help?

  • A
    Hold it up to the sky and note if it is translucent (safe) or transparent (poison). Take a very deep inhale of the plant and wait 3 hrs for a reaction. Then crush and chew the leaves for 5 minutes and spit out.
  • B
    Leave out in the sun to dry for 24hrs. Then crush dry leaves and burn in a pipe. If there's no reaction to inhaling, boil in water and drink as a soup.
  • C
    Take the leaves and crush with your hands. Then boil in water for one hour. Then dry in the sun and use as a tea infusion only.
  • D
    Touch it to your arm and wait 24 hours. Then touch it to your lips and wait 24 more hours. Then chew some and spit it out and wait a final 24 hours.

Question 9

What is the best way to cook food in a survival situation?

  • A
    Boil it
  • B
    Dry in the sun and eat as jerky
  • C
    Roast it by the fire
  • D
    Fry it

Question 10

You must always cook wild meat found or caught in a survival situation. True of False?

  • A
    False, but only if you hunted it
  • B
    True
  • C
    False
  • D
    True, if you found it lying on the ground

Question 11

You must never ingest rotten meat. True or False?

  • A
    False, if it is fish
  • B
    True, if it is fish
  • C
    False
  • D
    True

Question 12

Assuming all things being equal and you have a rifle with ammunition, fishing tackle and snaring equipment, what is the easiest meat (assuming we count fish as meat) to catch in the wild?

  • A
    Mice
  • B
    Squirrel
  • C
    Fish
  • D
    Rabbits

Question 13

What is rabbit-starvation?

  • A
    Rabbits are so lean that if that's all you eat you slowly protein poison yourself to death.
  • B
    When rabbits starve themselves as a way to escape lynx predation and therefore survive
  • C
    When only one rabbit is caught, but there are more than 10 people eating
  • D
    Rabbit meat will actually deplete your body of vitamin C causing scurvy.

Question 14

Which is better, catching one large animal such as a deer and preserving it somehow or catching many fresh small animals?

  • A
    Small animals
  • B
    Deer, but only during the rutting season
  • C
    Pizza
  • D
    Deer

Question 15

What diet is best when it comes to survival?

  • A
    Omnivorous
  • B
    Picky
  • C
    Vegan
  • D
    Carnivorous

Question 16

How many calories per day might you use if you are working very hard at survival?

  • A
    As many as 5,000
  • B
    You do not use calories when you are working hard, you gain calories
  • C
    As many as 100
  • D
    As many as 10,000

Question 17

Which is a warning sign that an insect might be poisonous to eat?

  • A
    Brightly colored
  • B
    Makes loud chirping sounds
  • C
    Lives in rotted logs
  • D
    Has a furry or hair-like covering

Question 18

You can eat any berries that you see birds eating. True or false?

  • A
    False
  • B
    True in the southern hemisphere
  • C
    False, but only if they are song birds
  • D
    True

Question 19

If you are heading out to practice survival methods, before you head into the bush you should...

  • A
    Not make any changes at all to your eating process.
  • B
    Eat a very small amount of food so that your stomach shrinks and you wont feel the hunger pangs so badly during your practice ordeal.
  • C
    Eat only fatty and starchy foods ahead of time.
  • D
    Eat a lot of food to fill yourself with fats and nutrition which will last you through your practice ordeal.

Question 20

What is a trick (based on the Inuit of the high Arctic) you can do with food to keep you warm while you sleep?

  • A
    Eat a chunk of fat (cheese is perfect) like whale blubber right before bed.
  • B
    Keep all your recently cooked and still warm food tucked down into your bed for warmth.
  • C
    Pick the most difficult food to process, such as husking a coconut, and do so right before bed to get your blood moving and thereby warming your body up.
  • D
    Make a pot of steaming wild edibles and breathe the steam deeply for two minutes right before sleeping.

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