Candy
What candy is made from spun sugar and often forms fluffy, cloud-like shapes on a stick?
Cotton candy.
A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?
Life of Pi
Kimchi is a pickled vegetable dish from which country?
Korea
Around 3000 BC was the first known use of what paper-like material by the Egyptians?
Papyrus
OFFICIALLY, THE LONGEST WAR IN HISTORY WAS BETWEEN THE NETHERLANDS AND ________, WHICH LASTED FROM 1651 TO 1986. THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES.
THE ISLES OF SCILLY
What are the two main ingredients in traditional taffy candy?
Sugar and butter.
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
The Polar Express
Blinis are small savory pancakes from which country?
Russia
What was the two-letter name of the Falcon-headed God of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology?
Ra
ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS OFFERED WHAT ROLE FOR ISRAEL IN 1952, BUT DECLINED.
THIER SECOND PRESIDENT
During World War II, American soldiers were given what candy in their rations?
Tootsie Rolls, because of the candy's ability to withstand all weather conditions. Tootsie Rolls were invented by an Austrian, Leo Hirshfield
Named after a London railway station, what fictional literary bear was originally a stowaway from "Darkest Peru?"
Paddington Bear
Up until the Middle Ages, which popular vegetable was always purple in color?
Carrot
In ancient Egyptian mythology, the god Geb, who is often depicted with the head of a goose, is the father of what underworld god who married his sister Isis
Osiris
ANTHONY BURGESS, ALDOUS HUXLEY, AND C.S. LEWIS AND WHO ELSE ALL DIED ON THE SAME DAY.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
What is the world’s best-selling candy bar?
Snickers.
"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel" by what British author?
Charles Dickens
What type of protein does a bouillabaisse mainly contain?
Fish
One of the first writings about Singapore was when what “P” Ancient Egyptian astronomer and geographer identified a place on the Malay Peninsula that he called “Sabana?”
Ptolemy
According to official biography Kim Jong-il wrote how many operas in two years. According to one version of his official biography, they are all “better than any in the history of music.”
SIX
President Nixon regularly had this Candy Bar for breakfast?
Milky Way
_________is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.
Animal Farm
The tandoor oven is used in the cooking of which country?
India
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS USED WHAT AS PILLOWS?
SLABS OF STONES
PRINCETON RESEARCHERS SUCCESSFULLY TURNED A LIVE _____ INTO A FUNCTIONING TELEPHONE IN 1929.
CAT