Cooking Shows
Gordon Ramsay hosts this competition in which home cooks battle for a title and trophy.
master chef
George Washington was the first U.S. president; the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776; Washington had wooden teeth.
Washington had wooden teeth.
The Outback, home to the inland taipan and many other venomous creatures, is found in this country.
Australia
This ancient Greek philosopher taught Plato and is famous for saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
socrates
This buttery, crescent-shaped French pastry gets its flaky layers from laminated dough.
Croissant
This show challenges bakers to make cakes, breads, and pastries inside a famous tent.
The Great British Bake Off?
The Enlightenment influenced the American and French Revolutions; John Locke was an Enlightenment thinker; The Enlightenment began after the Revolutionary War
The Enlightenment began after the Revolutionary War
This country used the atomic bomb against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
United States
This branch examines valid reasoning and the principles that distinguish good arguments from bad ones.
logic
This Japanese treat is made by pounding glutinous rice into a soft, stretchy, chewy dough.
Mochi
This Japanese series popularized the “Iron Chef,” a resident culinary master challenged by visiting chefs.
Iron chef
Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits; he was very short; he sold Louisiana to the U.S.
he sold Louisiana to the U.S.
This country operates a network of political prisons and forced-labor camps that has been extensively documented by human-rights organizations and UN investigators
North Korea
This Greek thinker, often crowned as the father of formal logic, tutored Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
This Italian dessert’s name means “pick me up”; it traditionally layers coffee-soaked ladyfingers with mascarpone.
tiramisu
This Italian-American chef and restaurateur has appeared as a judge on MasterChef and is known for his Italian cuisine.
Joe Bastianich
Cleopatra spoke 12 languages; she was Greek; she ordered the building of the Great Pyramids.
she ordered the building of the Great Pyramids.
Under Joseph Stalin, this state experienced the Great Purge, forced collectivization, and the Gulag system
Soviet Union
This philosopher declared that "God is dead" and argued for a radical reevaluation of traditional morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This French pastry consists of choux dough filled with cream, often in a long shape and covered in icing.
Eclair
This show has contestants compete by cooking dishes using ingredients they purchase inside a grocery store.
Guy's Grocery Games
Alexander the Great conquered Egypt; Alexander founded Alexandria; Alexander conquered italy.
Alexander conquered italy.
This country has maintained a military occupation of the West Bank since capturing the territory in the 1967 Six-Day War
Isreal
This philosophical position argues that existence has no inherent meaning and that humans must create meaning for themselves.
existentialism
This traditional Austrian pastry consists of thin layers of dough wrapped around an apple, cinnamon, and raisin filling. It is also featured in the film Inglourious Basterds in a crucial scene.
Apple Strudel