Fun Food Facts
This fruit is a member of the rose family, along with pears, peaches, and cherries.
What is an apple?
A man rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and left on Friday. How?
His horse was named Friday.
This American patriot made his famous midnight ride in 1775 to warn that British troops were approaching.
Who is Paul Revere?
This ancient Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The sandwich gets its name from this British nobleman who supposedly preferred eating with one hand while gambling.
Who was the Earl of Sandwich?
A woman gives a beggar $20. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. How is this possible?
The beggar is her sister.
This national park, established in 1872, became America's first national park.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This French heroine claimed to receive divine visions and helped lead French forces during the Hundred Years' War.
Who was Joan of Arc?
White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids but none of this ingredient found in dark chocolate.
What is cocoa solids?
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
What is your left hand?
This California event of 1849 brought hundreds of thousands of people westward in search of fortune.
What is the Gold Rush?
This English king had six wives and separated from the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Henry VIII?
This spice, once worth more than its weight in gold, comes from the dried stigmas of a flower.
What is saffron?
What can you keep after giving it to someone else?
What is your word?
This New Deal program put young men to work planting trees, building trails, and improving parks during the Great Depression.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
In 1453, the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire brought an end to this empire that had lasted for more than 1,000 years.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
This fruit, known as a "multiple fruit," develops from hundreds of individual flowers merging into a single structure.
What is a pineapple?
How can the number four be half of five?
In Roman numerals, half of V (five) is IV (four).
The Battle of Little Bighorn saw forces led by this U.S. Army officer defeated by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
In 1804, this Caribbean nation became the first independent Black republic in the world.
What is Haiti?