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This is the Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest attracts many climbers, including highly experienced mountaineers. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal (known as the "standard route") and the other from the north in Tibet. While not posing substantial technical climbing challenges on the standard route, Everest presents dangers such as altitude sickness, weather, and wind, as well as hazards from avalanches and the Khumbu Icefall.
100
This buttery, flaky pastry is traditionally associated with France and named for it's historical crescent shape.
Croissant
Crescent-shaped breads have been made since the Renaissance, and crescent-shaped cakes possibly since antiquity. Kipferls have long been a staple of Austrian cuisine, and are often found in French bakeries and pâtisseries. The modern croissant was developed in the early 20th century when French bakers replaced the brioche dough of the kipferl with a yeast-leavened laminated dough. In the late 1970s, the development of factory-made, frozen, preformed but unbaked dough made them into a fast food that could be freshly baked by unskilled labor.
100
The US five-cent coin takes its name from what element?
Nickel
The name derives from the German Nickel for "deceptive little spirit" because miners called mineral niccolite (NiAs) by the name Kupfernickel (false copper) because it resembled copper ores in appearance, but no copper was found in the ore. Nickel was discovered by the Swedish chemist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt in the mineral niccolite in 1751. Today, most nickel is obtained from the mineral pentlandite. Most of the world's supply of nickel is mined in the Sudbury region of Ontario, Canada. It is believed that this large deposit of nickel ore is a result of an ancient meteor impact.
100
This old-fashioned pie is usually made with a batter of butter, sugar, eggs and the signature nut which bakes into a delicious caramel, nutty pie filling.
Pecan Pie
Pecan pie was made before the invention of corn syrup, and older recipes used darker sugar-based syrup or molasses. The makers of Karo syrup significantly contributed to popularizing the dish and many of the recipes for variants (caramel, cinnamon, Irish cream, peanut butter, etc.) of the classic pie. The company has claimed that the dish was a 1930s "discovery" of a "new use for corn syrup" by a corporate sales executive's wife.
100
This Disney movie was based on the 1934 book by the same name written by P.L. Travers, with a sensible English nanny who possesses magical powers.
Mary Poppins
"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!"
200
This mountain is the highest peak in North America, located in the Alaska Range.
Mount Denali (Formerly Mount McKinley)
In 1896, a gold prospector named it McKinley as political support for then-presidential candidate William McKinley, who became president the following year. The United States formally recognized the name Mount McKinley after President Wilson signed the Mount McKinley National Park Act of February 26, 1917. In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson declared the north and south peaks of the mountain the "Churchill Peaks", in honor of British statesman Winston Churchill. The Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain to Denali in 1975, which was how it is called locally.
200
These sweet meringue-based confections are made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar and almond meal on a special baking sheet.
Macarons
Not to be confused with macaroons (totally different ballgame). According to legend, the macaron was introduced in France during the Renaissance by the Italian chef of queen Catherine de Medici, but a confection by the general description appears in the 8th century in the Cormery Abbey. Since the 19th century, a typical Parisian-style macaron is a sandwich cookie filled with a ganache, buttercream or jam.
200
The elements scandium and thulium are both named after which region of Europe?
Scandinavia
Scandium is mainly used for research purposes. It has, however, great potential because it has almost as low a density as aluminium and a much higher melting point. An aluminium-scandium alloy has been used in Russian MIG fighter planes, high-end bicycle frames and baseball bats. Scandium iodide is added to mercury vapour lamps to produce a highly efficient light source resembling sunlight. These lamps help television cameras to reproduce colour well when filming indoors or at night-time. Thulium is an easily workable metal with a bright silvery-gray luster. It is fairly soft and slowly tarnishes in air. Despite its high price and rarity, thulium is used as the radiation source in portable X-ray devices, and in some solid-state lasers.
200
Maybe a bit of a misnomer, while this Massachusetts cream filled dessert is technically a cake, it is listed in nearly every recipe book as a pie!
Boston Cream Pie
It is said to have been created in 1856 by Armenian-French chef Mossburg Sanzian at the Parker House Hotel in Boston. A direct descendant of earlier cakes known as American pudding-cake pie and Washington pie, the dessert was referred to as chocolate cream pie, Parker House chocolate cream pie, and finally Boston cream pie on Parker House's menus.
200
This story features a free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up as he takes the Darling children off to Neverland.
Peter Pan
"Now, think of the happiest things. It's the same as having wings!"
300
This mountain range is located in North Africa, separating the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean (in fact, its name was derived from "Atlantic").
Atlas Mountain
The Atlas Mountains are rich in natural resources. There are deposits of iron ore, lead ore, copper, silver, mercury, rock salt, phosphate, marble, anthracite coal and natural gas among other resources.
300
These Sicilian tube shaped pastries are made with fried dough that is filled with a sweet, creamy filling containing ricotta, sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar and chocolate chips.
Cannolis
Holy Cannoli! Some food historians place the origins of cannoli in 827–1091 in Caltanissetta in Sicily, by the concubines of princes looking to capture their attention. This period marks the Arab rule of the island, known then as the Emirate of Sicily, giving rise to the theory that the etymology stemmed from the Arabic word qanawāt meaning 'tubes' in reference to their tube-shaped shells. During this time, the Arabs influenced Sicilian baking with the introduction of candied fruits, pistachios, and cinnamon.
300
Which metallic element is the main component of steel?
a. Gold
b. Iron
c. Tin
d. Platinum
b. Iron
The body of an adult human contains about 4 grams (0.005% body weight) of iron, mostly in hemoglobin and myoglobin. These two proteins play essential roles in vertebrate metabolism, respectively oxygen transport by blood and oxygen storage in muscles. To maintain the necessary levels, human iron metabolism requires a minimum of iron in the diet. Iron is also the metal at the active site of many important redox enzymes dealing with cellular respiration and oxidation and reduction in plants and animals.
300
This American dessert is made with egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk and a fruit specifically found in a certain part of Florida.
Key Lime Pie
Key lime pie is probably derived from the "Magic Lemon Cream Pie" published in a promotional brochure by Borden, a producer of condensed milk, in 1931. The recipe is attributed to Borden's fictional spokesperson, Jane Ellison, and includes condensed milk, lemon juice and rind, and egg yolks. It is covered with meringue, baked, and served cold. According to the pastry chef Stella Parks, users of the recipe altered it with local ingredients; she describes it as "a stunning reminder of how deeply America's traditions are shaped by advertising".
300
In this Disney movie, a young circus elephant is born with comically large ears which help him do something miraculous.
Dumbo
"Well, I've seen a horse fly... Ah, I've seen a dragon fly... I've seen a house fly! I've seen all that, too! I seen a peanut stand, and heard a rubber band! I seen a needle that winked its eye! But I be done seen about everything when I see a elephant fly!"
400
This mountain is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, the tallest mountain in Japan.
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji is one of Japan's "Three Holy Mountains" along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. It is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and one of Japan's Historic Sites. It was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site in 2013. According to UNESCO, Mount Fuji has "inspired artists and poets and been the object of pilgrimage for centuries".
400
This pastry is made with choux dough, filled with cream using a piping bag and topped with a flavored icing (typically a chocolate ganache).
Éclairs
The word comes from the French éclair, meaning 'flash of lightning', so named because it is eaten quickly (in a flash); however some believe that the name is due to the glistening of the frosting resembling lightning.
400
What is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere? What are some other gases in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen is the most common gas in Earth's atmosphere. Other gases include Hydrogen, Oxygen and Helium.
These gases are found in atmospheric layers (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere) defined by unique features such as temperature and pressure. The atmosphere protects life on earth by shielding it from incoming ultraviolet (UV) radiation, keeping the planet warm through insulation, and preventing extremes between day and night temperatures. The sun heats layers of the atmosphere causing it to convect driving air movement and weather patterns around the world.
400
This French tart consists of a pastry crust filled with egg and cheese, meat, seafood or vegetables.
Quiche
American food writer James Peterson records first encountering quiche in the late 1960s and being "convinced it was the most sophisticated and delicious thing I'd ever tasted". He writes that by the 1980s American quiches began to include ingredients that he found "bizarre and unpleasant", such as broccoli, and that he regards Bruce Feirstein's 1982 comedy book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as the "final humiliation" of the dish, that "[a] rugged and honest country dish had become a symbol of effete snobbery."
400
This fairy tail story is about a girl who is cruelly mistreated by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, who when all hope seems lost finds out she has a magical fairy godmother.
Cinderella
"A dream is a wish your heart makes."
500
This mountain is in the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Italy and Switzerland, regarded as one of the deadliest peaks in the world.
The Matterhorn
The Matterhorn was studied by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the late eighteenth century, and was followed by other renowned naturalists and artists, such as John Ruskin, in the 19th century. It remained unclimbed after most of the other great Alpine peaks had been attained and became the subject of an international competition for the summit.
500
This is a multilayered, laminated sweet pastry in the viennoiserie tradition, made with a variant of a puff pastry with a filling such as jam or a cheesy custard added to the middle.
Danish
The origin of the Danish pastry is often ascribed to a strike amongst bakery workers in Denmark in 1850. The strike caused bakery owners to hire workers from abroad, among them several Austrian bakers, who brought along new baking traditions and pastry recipes. The Austrian pastry of Plundergebäck soon became popular in Denmark and after the labour disputes ended, Danish bakers adopted the Austrian recipes, adjusting them to their own liking and traditions by increasing the amount of egg and fat for example. This development resulted in what is now known as the Danish pastry.
500
Name the Element using its chemical symbol:
1. H
2. O
3. Au
4. K
1. Hydrogen
2. Oxygen
3. Gold
4. Potassium
500
Pies aren't always sweet! What are some popular pies made mainly with meat?
Chicken Pot Pie, Shepherd's Pie, but not Mince Meat Pie (surprisingly)!
It’s hard to know exactly when meat stopped being included in the mince pie. In the Medieval and Tudor period the meat of choice for a mince pie was lamb or veal. By the 18th century it was more likely to be tongue or even tripe, and in the 19th century it was minced beef. It was not until the late Victorian period and early 20th Century that mince pies dropped the meat and had all fruit fillings (albeit with suet).
500
What are some of the names of Walt Disney's famous cartoon mascots?
Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Minnie, Daisy, Pluto and more!
Did you know: Mickey Mouse actually came about after Walt Disney lost his first original character to Universal Studios, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.