Lefty
Yank
1 How long does it take to hard-boil a three-pound ostrich egg?
2 A pound of ground coffee yields 50 cups. How many cups does a pound of tea yield?
3 What popular fruit was named after a papal estate outside Rome?
4 Currants--small seedless grapes --were named for their place of origin. Just where was that?
5 In what country did the Jerusalem artichoke originate?
6 What was Charles Elmer Hires originally going to call the drink we now know as root beer?
7 What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
8 How long does it take a ginseng root to reach marketable size?
9 What snack food commercial was pulled off the air in 1970 because of complaints from an outraged ethnic group?
10 Vichyssoise--the cold potato and leek soup--was first created in 1917 by chef Louis Diat. Do you know where?
11 What fruit did the Visigoths demand in ransom when they laid siege to Rome in 408?
12 What ethnic food did Jeno Paulucci make available in supermarkets nationwide for the very first time in 1947?
13 What recipe--first published 50 years ago--has been requested most frequently through the years by the readers of "Better Homes and Garden"?
14 What were guests at the Buckinghamshire estate of financier Alfred de Rothschild asked when they requested milk with their tea?
15 Under standards established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, what is the minimum a gallon of ice cream must weigh?
16 What food product is named after Hannibal's brother Mago?
17 When was coffee first sold in sealed tin cans in the United States?
1 A: 1 hour and 45 minutes.
2 A: 200.
3 A: The cantaloupe, which was named after the Pope's summer residence of Cantalupo.
4 A: Corinth, Greece. They were originally known as raysons de Corauntz or "raisins of Corinth."
5 A: In the United States. Its name has nothing to do with the biblical city, but is a corruption of the Italian word for sunflower, girasole.
6 A: Root tea--but a friend convinced him the name would discourage sales.
7 A: The herring.
8 A: Seven years.
9 A: The Frito Bandito commercial for Frito corn chips. The complaints came from Mexican-Americans.
10 A: In New York City--in the kitchen of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where Diat was head chef.
11 A: Peppercorns--3,000 pounds of them. Pepper was a highly valued spice at the time.
12 A: Paulucci gave us Chinese food--under the Chun King label. He later brought us Jeno's pizza.
13 A: The recipe for hamburger pie, which has been updated and republished a number of times over the years.
14 A: "Jersey, Hereford and Shorthorn?"
15 A: Four and one-half pounds.
16 A: Mayonnaise--which is named after the Minorca Island port city of Mahon, which was named for Mago.
17 A: In 1879--by Chase & Sanborn.
2 A pound of ground coffee yields 50 cups. How many cups does a pound of tea yield?
3 What popular fruit was named after a papal estate outside Rome?
4 Currants--small seedless grapes --were named for their place of origin. Just where was that?
5 In what country did the Jerusalem artichoke originate?
6 What was Charles Elmer Hires originally going to call the drink we now know as root beer?
7 What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
8 How long does it take a ginseng root to reach marketable size?
9 What snack food commercial was pulled off the air in 1970 because of complaints from an outraged ethnic group?
10 Vichyssoise--the cold potato and leek soup--was first created in 1917 by chef Louis Diat. Do you know where?
11 What fruit did the Visigoths demand in ransom when they laid siege to Rome in 408?
12 What ethnic food did Jeno Paulucci make available in supermarkets nationwide for the very first time in 1947?
13 What recipe--first published 50 years ago--has been requested most frequently through the years by the readers of "Better Homes and Garden"?
14 What were guests at the Buckinghamshire estate of financier Alfred de Rothschild asked when they requested milk with their tea?
15 Under standards established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, what is the minimum a gallon of ice cream must weigh?
16 What food product is named after Hannibal's brother Mago?
17 When was coffee first sold in sealed tin cans in the United States?
1 A: 1 hour and 45 minutes.
2 A: 200.
3 A: The cantaloupe, which was named after the Pope's summer residence of Cantalupo.
4 A: Corinth, Greece. They were originally known as raysons de Corauntz or "raisins of Corinth."
5 A: In the United States. Its name has nothing to do with the biblical city, but is a corruption of the Italian word for sunflower, girasole.
6 A: Root tea--but a friend convinced him the name would discourage sales.
7 A: The herring.
8 A: Seven years.
9 A: The Frito Bandito commercial for Frito corn chips. The complaints came from Mexican-Americans.
10 A: In New York City--in the kitchen of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where Diat was head chef.
11 A: Peppercorns--3,000 pounds of them. Pepper was a highly valued spice at the time.
12 A: Paulucci gave us Chinese food--under the Chun King label. He later brought us Jeno's pizza.
13 A: The recipe for hamburger pie, which has been updated and republished a number of times over the years.
14 A: "Jersey, Hereford and Shorthorn?"
15 A: Four and one-half pounds.
16 A: Mayonnaise--which is named after the Minorca Island port city of Mahon, which was named for Mago.
17 A: In 1879--by Chase & Sanborn.