Corn Across the Globe
This Latin American flatbread, made from ground maize, is a staple in Mexico and Central America.
What is a Tortilla?
Corn belongs to this plant family, which also includes wheat, barley, and rice.
What is the grass family? (Poaceae)
According to Guinness, the tallest corn plant ever recorded reached just under this many feet in the state of Iowa.
What is under 50 feet?
Candy corn is most popular during this October holiday.
What is Halloween?
If someone tells a joke that makes you roll your eyes, you might call it this word.
What is Corny?
In 1948, New Mexico, archaeologists found popcorn that was over how many years old?
What is 5000 years?
In Venezuela and Colombia, this round maize cake is often grilled or fried and eaten stuffed with cheese or meat.
What is Arepa?
The process of soaking maize in limewater to unlock nutrients like niacin is called this.
What is Nixtamalization?
According to Guinness. The world’s largest corn maze, located in Quebec, covered this many acres in 2022.
What is 65 acres?
A typical piece of candy corn has three colors. Yellow, orange, and this.
What is white?
The phrase “knee-high by the ___ of July” is used to measure how well corn is growing.
What is the Fourth?
This fast-food chain was once sued because its chicken wasn’t technically popcorn chicken but small pieces of fried chicken.
What is KFC?
Nixtamalization, the process of soaking corn in limewater, was first developed by Indigenous peoples of this region.
What is Mesoamerica?
The tassels at the top of a corn plant produce this, which fertilizes the silks below.
What is Pollen?
According to Guinness. The longest popcorn string ever recorded stretched more than this many feet.
What is 1200 feet?
Brach’s once released a controversial Thanksgiving candy corn mix, which included flavors like turkey, stuffing, and this sweet orange vegetable.
What is Sweet Potato (or Yam)?
This old expression for cheap, showy entertainment gave rise to a theater style also known as “corny.”
What is Cornball or Cornball Comedy?
When popped, popcorn can produce one of these 2 different shapes.
What is butterfly OR mushroom?
Ugali, a stiff porridge made from maize flour, is a dietary staple in this East African nation.
Where is Kenya?
The yellow colour of most sweet corn comes from carotenoids, especially one of these two specific pigments.
What is Zeaxanthin and Lutein?
Candy corn, first created in the 1880s, was originally called this two-word name.
What is Chicken Feed?
According to the National Confectioners Association, Americans consume about this many million pounds of candy corn each year.
What is 35 Million?
This phrase means to flatter someone excessively, as though slathering them in the same substance you might to your corn before eating.
What is 'Buttering someone up'?
This 16th-century Italian born explorer was among the first Europeans to bring corn back from the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Chicha, a traditional fermented corn drink, has been made for centuries by Indigenous communities in this mountain range.
What are the Andes?
These specific types of 2 and 4 in 1 corn, developed in the 20th century, revolutionized agriculture by boosting yields and is credited with fueling the Green Revolution.
What is Hybrid Corn OR Double Crossed Hybrid Corn?
According to Guinness. Geoffrey Esper, set the record for eating this many corndogs in 3 minutes back in 2022.
What is 11 corndogs?
In 1950, the makers of candy corn expanded the idea by releasing this pastel-colored springtime version, still sold today.
What is Bunny Corn OR Easter Candy Corn?
The saying “Don’t put all your corn in one crib” carries the same cautionary meaning as this more common proverb.
What is "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?
The largest corn pudding weighs this many pounds, and was achieved in the Dominican Republic, on November 2nd, 2024.
What is 1,893.66 lbs?