Culinary Quiz
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on May 30, 2008 – 9:53 am -Another day, another quiz.
1) What president of the U.S. served hot dogs to the Queen of England?
2) On April 25, 1856, Charles Luttwedge Dodgson met Alice Liddell. Miss
Liddell had a penchant for consuming unknown (and possibly psychoactive)
food and liquids. What other names might these two be more recognizable as?
3) Before these gentlemen founded a well known computer technology
company, they invented an automatic urinal flusher and a weight loss
shock machine. What computer technology company did they start?
4) Transportation and the breadfruit tree are connected with what famous
crime?
5) Earle Dickson’s wife seems to have been accident prone in the
kitchen, frequently cutting or burning herself. What did Earle do about
this?
6) There is a monument to honor sea gulls in Salt Lake City. Why?
7) Why couldn’t residents of Italy eat lunch during the week of October 7, 1582?
Who was Hippolyte Mege Mouries?
9) What famous food personality made his debut in a commercial for
crescent rolls in 1965?
Answers will be posted here at 5.30 EDT
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lah dee dah….
1. Lyndon Johnson
2. Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland
3. Apple
4. The Great Breadfruit Freight Train Robber
5. Earle learned to cook.
6. Seagulls revealed the location of the Tablets to Joseph Smith.
7. There was no week of October 7 that year–they switched from the Gregorian to the Julian calendar, and that week was lost.
8. The original chef at La Tour D’Argent
9. Bill Clinton, aka the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
2 out of 9 ain’t bad!
Argh. I know *none* of these answers and haven’t had enough coffee yet to utilize Teh Google.
::whimpers::
No googling allowed…only clusty.
What’s clusty?
Answers:
1) President Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs to King George VI and
Hippolyte Mege Mouries was a French scientist, he invented margarine.
Queen Elizabeth of England during their 1939 visit to the United States.
It was the first time they had tried this American gourmet treat.
2) You might know the two people better by their pen and fictional
names, Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland.
3) David Packard and William Hewlett founded the Hewlett Packard
Company.
4) William Bligh was the captain of the English ship ‘Bounty’, and while
sailing to Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees, the most famous mutiny
in history took place.
5) Earle Dickson worked for Johnson & Johnson and he invented the
band-aid for his wife. The company soon began manufacturing band-aids
for sale to the public.
6) The gulls had eaten the plague of grasshoppers that threatened the
Mormon settlers crops in 1848.
7) The dates never existed in Italy. The day following Thursday, October
4, 1582 was Friday, October 15, 1582. Pope Gregory XIII issued the
decree correcting the Julian Calendar which was 10 days out of date. It
was effective in most Catholic countries. The old Julian calendar
continued in use in Britain and the American colonies until 1752, in
Japan until 1873, in China until 1912, in Russia until 1918, in Greece
until 1923, and in Turkey until 1925.
9) The Pillsbury Doughboy, “Poppin’ Fresh.”