Geography "I"
This Southeast Asian nation is made of more than 18,000 islands
What is Indonesia?
This titan was the titan of water and a synonym for sea sounds like his name
Who is Oceanus?
Table salt is made of these chemical elements
What are Sodium and Chloride?
The hottest pepper in the world
What is the Carolina Reaper?
Smurfs are this color
What is Blue?
Midwestern state capital that is home to the world's largest children's museum
What is Indianapolis?
This goddess used to be an Olympian but gave up her throne to Dionysus
Who is Hestia?
According to a superstition, doing this to salt can cause bad luck
What is "Spilling?" This may have originated in Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper," which shows Judas Iscariot knocking over a salt container
Black pepper comes from this dried fruit
What is Peppercorn?
This many colors in a rainbow
What is seven?
The first public office that Abraham Lincoln took was as postmaster in New Salem, in this midwestern state
What is Illinois?
This is what Rhea gave to Kronos instead of giving him Zeus, because she knew Kronos would try to swallow Zeus (well, the fake Zeus)
What is a rock?
The adult human body contains approximately this much salt (closest gram wins. Reminder 1 lb = 454 grams)
What is about 250 grams?
This country is the biggest consumer of pepper
What is the United States? (we consume 18% of the world's pepper)
An emerald is this color
What is green?
What is Iceland?
This titan was the mother of the twins Artemis and Apollo
Who is Leto? (I will explain the backstory.)
Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt. The root of this word, relating to payment, comes from salt.
What is Salary? The Latin word for salt is "sal", the soldiers' monthly allowance was called "salarium"
This is the scale by which hotness of peppers is measured
What is the Scoville scale? It records hotness in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is the predominant component
Neptune gets its blue color from this gas
What is Methane?
This Middle East nation has the world’s highest rate of university degrees on a per capita basis
What is Israel?
This giant was created specifically to destroy the goddess Athena. His name is also used for a moon of Saturn
Who is Enceladus?
This element is added to table and cooking salt, in order to prevent its deficiency, which can cause low IQ and enlarged thyroid (goiter)
What is Iodine?
Famous Beatles' album with "pepper" in its name
What is Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
This colorful fever is caused by a virus spread through mosquito bites. Endemic in Africa and South America. Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, backache, and muscle aches
What is Yellow fever?