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($100) This is another name for powdered sugar.
Answer: What is confectioners’ sugar? To prevent clumping, it’s mixed with cornstarch.
($100) Though these land areas can be cold, they are usually known for their hot, dry climate.
Answer: What are deserts? The Antarctic continent is the outlier; it’s a huge desert, even though it’s cold.
($100) Two pints equals this.
Answer: What is a quart? Thirty-two ounces equals one quart. Four quarts equals one gallon.
($100) This pole doesn’t belong to a single country but is governed by multiple countries.
Answer: What is the South Pole? It falls within the borders of Antarctica and is governed by a treaty signed by 54 countries.
($100) Buenos Aires is the capital of this South American country.
Answer: What is Argentina? Three more interesting facts: Nearly 97 percent of Argentinians are of European descent. Argentina’s movie industry is around 100 years old. Its national sport is pato, which is played on horseback and is a cross between basketball and polo.
($200) This is the sugar substitute in the pink packet.
Answer: What is Sweet’N Low? It’s a popular brand of saccharin, and it’s 300–500 times sweeter than sugar.
($200) Pottery is fired in these hot ovens.
Answer: What are kilns? Temperatures for home kilns typically range from 2,000º to 2,400º Fahrenheit (1,093º to 1,316º Celsius).
($200) This kitchen small appliance company was founded in 1971 and is renowned for its food processors, ice cream makers, blenders, convection ovens, and coffee makers.
Answer: What is Cuisinart? Conair, a popular maker of personal care products such as hair dryers, now owns the company.
. ($200) These giant mammals, also known as Ursus maritimus, inhabit the North Pole.
Answer: What are polar bears? Polar bears are the only bears considered marine mammals because they live on the polar ice and feed on marine animals.
($200) New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania are three of the states of this country in the southern hemisphere.
Answer: What is Australia? Did you know that Dutch settlers arrived in Australia before the British did?
($400) This gives brown sugar its flavor.
Answer: What is molasses? When the molasses loses moisture due to air exposure, this causes brown sugar to harden. When brown sugar clumps, place a piece of bread in the container and return in an hour. The molasses in the sugar absorbs the moisture from the bread.
($400) This hot event occurred on Mount Vesuvius.
Answer: What is a volcanic eruption? The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 covered the city of Pompeii.
. ($400) To go against the grain is to upset this.
Answer: What is applecart? The idiom originated in Roman times, when it meant “to mess up the whole thing.”
($400) This pole is land surrounded by water.
Answer: What is the South Pole? The North Pole is water (with sea ice on top) surrounded by land.
($400) This country was part of an empire with Hungary from 1867 to 1918.
Answer: What is Austria? Notable Austrians include Josef Madersperger, who invented the sewing machine, and Ferdinand Porsche, inventor of the eponymous car, who was from Austria-Hungary
($600) Sugar is derived from the sugarcane plant or this root vegetable.
Answer: What is sugar beet? The majority of U.S. sugar comes from the sugar beet plant.
($600) This once powered trains.
Answer: What is steam? Hot steam under immense pressure powered the trains.
($600) This is another word for sour.
Answer: What is tart? Cherries come in two major varieties: sweet and tart.
($600) This is the warmest pole
Answer: What is the North Pole? Winter temperatures at the North Pole reach –40ºF (–40ºC), while the South Pole can dip as low as –76ºF (–60ºC). Summer temperatures at the North Pole can reach a balmy 32ºF (0ºC).
. ($600) Morocco and Tunisia flank this North African country, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea’s coastline.
Answer: What is Algeria? It’s the largest country in Africa, and 80 percent of the Saharan Desert is located within its borders.
($800) This is the generic name for Splenda.
Answer: What is sucralose? Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than table sugar.
($800) Magma is made of these melted or partially melted materials.
Answer: What are rocks? The liquefied rock is called magma when it is below Earth’s surface. Upon eruption, it is called lava. Temperatures range between 1,300º and 2,400º Fahrenheit (700º to 1,300º Celsius).
($800) This means to one-up or gain an advantage over your intellectual opponent.
Answer: What is outsmart? According to Chinese military general Sun Tsu, one way to outsmart your opponent is to use the art of deception to appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
($800) He was the first explorer to reach the South Pole.
Answer: Who is Roald Amundsen? Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911.
($800) Once a colony of Portugal, this southwestern African country endured a 27-year civil war, involving troops from Cuba and South Africa, from 1975 to 2002.
Answer: What is Angola? While the developed world knows little about Angola aside from its civil war, the country has some magnificent natural attractions and picturesque architecture of Portuguese influence. The official language is Portuguese, and it’s believed that the samba may have originated in Angola.