Thursday’s Quiz
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on June 12, 2008 – 8:16 am -1) This tree has aromatic, evergreen leaves, and produces a year round crop of a peachlike, but tough dry fruit. When ripe, the fruit splits open revealing a large seed, surrounded by a red lacy network. Both the red fleshy part and the large seed are used to make two different food products. What are these two distinct food products?
2) All of the following events took place in the same year. What Year is it?
- Harry MacElhone (or his bartender) creates the Bloody Mary at Harry’s Bar in Paris.
- Wheaties breakfast cereal is introduced.
- Betty Crocker is “born.”
- Chuckles sugared jelly candies are introduced.
- White Castle sells its first hamburger.
- Italian cheesemaker Egidio Galbani introduces Bel Paese cheese.
- Both Lindy’s and Sardi’s restaurants open in New York City.
3) In 1969 some Dutch fishermen caught a very large halibut off the coast of Norway. The liver of the fish was large enough to feed 11 of them, one even ate about 2/3 of a pound. All of them became nauseous, their skin turned red and swollen, and the next morning their skin was peeling off in sheets. There was no poison or toxic substance in the fish. Can you guess why they became ill?
4) The average American eats 6 slices of pie per year. Can you list the following pies in the correct order of popularity in America?
a) pumpkin b) chocolate c) apple d) cherry e) lemon meringue
5) They are among the largest, strongest, fastest, most cunning, and ferocious of all animals, but many of them are quite harmless. In many countries they are valued as food, some have uses in bird cages and artists pigments. Never very popular in the U.S. except in ethnic communities (Greek, Italian, Asian, Portuguese), The Greeks hurl them against rocks and the Portuguese beat them with bottles to tenderize them before they are cooked. When properly prepared they are as delicate and tender as chicken. Name that animal.
6) This genus of tuberous rooted herbs of the daisy family, is native to Mexico and Central America, and grows at elevations of 5,000 feet and above. (It is the national flower of Mexico.) They were brought to Spain in 1789 and soon spread to Britain, France and the rest of Europe. The botanist, Andreas Dahl, considered it a vegetable, and the French, like the Aztecs, cultivated the plant for its edible tuber. The tuber has a taste similar to the Jerusalem artichoke, and are cooked in the same manner. The emphasis soon switched to its use as a garden flower, when some of the larger, double flowered varieties arrived in Europe. There are about 2,000 varieties grown for their flowers, which include single and double flowers in white, yellow, red, orange, purple and bicolor. Name this plant.
7) This cheese was developed as a cheaper substitute for Roquefort in the early 1900s. After the second World War it was very successfully marketed throughout Europe and especially in Britain. It is now considered one of the world’s best blue cheeses.
a) Cambazola.
b) Danablu.
c) Gorgonzola.
d) Maytag Blue.
e) Saga Blue.
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3. vitamin A poisoning.
5. squid
6. Sunflower
7. (guessing) Maytag Blue.
Another strange html moment! I wrote the whole thing on verdana on a new document, and it shows up here as something else, well, part of it!!
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2. 1921
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4. c a d e b
5.Squid
6.
7. Danablu
1. Nutmeg
2. 1921
3. Vit A overdose
4. apple, pumpkin, chocolate (mmmmm…chocolate), lemon meringue, cherry
5. Octopus
6. Dahlia
7. B
Without reading any comments to influence me, I’ll bite.
#1 may be nutmeg and mace.
#2 just a wild guess, but I will say 1912. I have a story about George Jessel inventing the Bloody Mary.
#3 fish liver is very high in Vitamins A and D. Toxicity from one of both (I suspect the synergy makes it worse) is to blame.
#4 I will say apple, pumpkin (because of Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions), chocolate, cherry, and then lemon.
#5 that must be the mollusc, the cuttlefish. Related to the giant squid and very small cousins as well.
#6 I suspect that it is the Dahlia, which my grandmother had lots. But Dahl was not limited to that genus only. He was pretty prolific.
#7 No idea about this one. I like my real Roquefort, and eat it only rarely due to the cost.
Warmest regards, Doc.
Answers:
1) This tree has aromatic, evergreen leaves, and produces a year round crop of a peachlike, but tough dry fruit. When ripe, the fruit splits open revealing a large seed, surrounded by a red lacy network. Both the red fleshy part and the large seed are used to make two different food products. What are these two distinct food products?
2) All of the following events took place in the same year. What Year is it?
- Harry MacElhone (or his bartender) creates the Bloody Mary at Harry’s Bar in Paris.
- Wheaties breakfast cereal is introduced.
- Betty Crocker is “born.”
- Chuckles sugared jelly candies are introduced.
- White Castle sells its first hamburger.
- Italian cheesemaker Egidio Galbani introduces Bel Paese cheese.
- Both Lindy’s and Sardi’s restaurants open in New York City.
3) In 1969 some Dutch fishermen caught a very large halibut off the coast of Norway. The liver of the fish was large enough to feed 11 of them, one even ate about 2/3 of a pound. All of them became nauseous, their skin turned red and swollen, and the next morning their skin was peeling off in sheets. There was no poison or toxic substance in the fish. Can you guess why they became ill?
4) The average American eats 6 slices of pie per year. Can you list the following pies in the correct order of popularity in America?
a) pumpkin b) chocolate c) apple d) cherry e) lemon meringue
5) They are among the largest, strongest, fastest, most cunning, and ferocious of all animals, but many of them are quite harmless. In many countries they are valued as food, some have uses in bird cages and artists pigments. Never very popular in the U.S. except in ethnic communities (Greek, Italian, Asian, Portuguese), The Greeks hurl them against rocks and the Portuguese beat them with bottles to tenderize them before they are cooked. When properly prepared they are as delicate and tender as chicken. Name that animal.
6) This genus of tuberous rooted herbs of the daisy family, is native to Mexico and Central America, and grows at elevations of 5,000 feet and above. (It is the national flower of Mexico.) They were brought to Spain in 1789 and soon spread to Britain, France and the rest of Europe. The botanist, Andreas Dahl, considered it a vegetable, and the French, like the Aztecs, cultivated the plant for its edible tuber. The tuber has a taste similar to the Jerusalem artichoke, and are cooked in the same manner. The emphasis soon switched to its use as a garden flower, when some of the larger, double flowered varieties arrived in Europe. There are about 2,000 varieties grown for their flowers, which include single and double flowers in white, yellow, red, orange, purple and bicolor. Name this plant.
7) This cheese was developed as a cheaper substitute for Roquefort in the early 1900s. After the second World War it was very successfully marketed throughout Europe and especially in Britain. It is now considered one of the world’s best blue cheeses.
a) Cambazola.
b) Danablu.
c) Gorgonzola.
d) Maytag Blue.
e) Saga Blue.
Real ANSWERS:
1) Myristica fragrans, is unique among spice plants, producing two distinct spices, Nutmeg and Mace. The seed is dried, shelled and sold either whole or ground as the spice Nutmeg. The outer fleshy network is also dried and ground producing the spice know as Mace.
2) The year is 1921.
3) They were all suffering from an overdose of Vitamin A (hypervitamintosis A). The one who ate 2/3 pound of the halibut liver ingested the equivalent of 2,000 multivitamin tablets (about 30 million units of vitamin A)!
4) Pie popularity: (American Pie Council)
c) apple pie
a) pumpkin pie
b) chocolate pie
e) lemon meringue
d) cherry
5) Cephalopods, marine mollusks - Octopus, Cuttlefish and Squid. The internal shell of the cuttlefish, the cuttlebone, is used in bird cages - they are a source of lime salts. Sepia ink a rich brown pigment used by artists, is made from the fluid (’ink’)these animals discharge as protection.
6) Dahlia. Named after the botanist, Andreas Dahl.
7) b) Danablu from Denmark.