Sugar, Sugar
This is another name for confectioners sugar.
What is Powdered Sugar?
To prevent clumping, it's mixed with cornstarch
Though these land areas can be cold, they are usually known for their hot, dry climate.
What are deserts?
Despite being a cold environment, Antarctica is the the largest desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world.
Two pints equals this.
What is a quart?
32 ounces equals one quart. Four quarts equals one gallon.
A group of birds or sheep.
What is a flock?
A group of birds is also called a flight, congregation, or in the case of crows, a murder. Baby birds are called nestlings, hatchlings or fledglings.
Beunos Aires is the capital of this South American country.
What is Argentina?
Nearly 97 percent of Argentinians are of European descent. It's national sport is pato, which is played on horseback and is a cross between basketball and polo.
On November 20th, 1947, Prince Philip Mountbatten married this distant cousin.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
At the time of her marriage, she was Princess Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning monarch in British history, reigning for over seven decades.
This is the sugar substitute in the pink packets.
What is Sweet'N Low?
It's a popular brand of saccharin, and it's 300-500 times sweeter than regular sugar.
Pottery is fired in these hot ovens.
What are kilns?
Temperatures for home kilns typically range from 2000° to 2400° Fahrenheit or 1093° to 1316° Celsius.
You don't want to put the horse in front of this
What is the cart?
This idiom that means to not do things in the wrong order or not to get ahead of yourself.
A group of dog or wolves is called this.
What is a pack?
A pack of wolves usually consists of related adult males, related adult females (that are unrelated to the males), and their offspring. Order is maintained by means of an almost linear hierarchical relationship between pack members, an arrangement known as a dominance hierarchy.
New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are three of the states of this "A" country.
What is Australia?
Australia is the world's sixth largest country, but the smallest continent
Born November 5th, 1911, Roy Rogers, "King of the Cowboys", married this "Queen of the West".
Who is Dale Evans?
She was also known as "Queen of the Cowgirls". The duo is known for their signature tune "Happy Trails". Together, they made the film "My Pal Trigger" featuring Rogers' ever-present horse.
This gives brown sugar its flavor.
What is molasses?
When the molasses loses moisture due to air exposure, this causes brown sugar to harden. When brown sugar clumps, place a piece of bread in the container and come back in an hour or two. The molasses in the sugar absorbs the moisture from the bread.
This hot event occurred on Mount Vesuvius.
What is a volcanic eruption?
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD covered the city of Pompeii in volcanic ash.
This is a military decoration awarded to members of the U.S. armed forces who are wounded or killed while serving
What is a Purple Heart?
General George Washington originally designated the award as the Badge of Military Merit in 1782. It was reintroduced in 1932 on the 200th anniversary of Washington's birth
This is what you call a group of kittens or puppies.
What is a litter?
A litter of kittens can have multiple fathers, and the smallest puppy or kitten is sometimes called the runt of the litter.
This country was part of an empire with Hungary from 1867 to 1918.
What is Austria?
Notable Austrians include Josef Madersperger, who invented the sewing machine, and Ferdinand Porsche, inventor of the eponymous car, who was from Austria-Hungary.
This famous shopping day is always the day after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
In 2005, consumers spent $484 million on Black Friday. By 2023, sales reached 12.4 billion between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Sugar is derived from the sugarcane plant, or this root vegetable.
What are sugar beets?
The majority of U.S. sugar comes from the sugar beet plant.
The first trains were powered by this.
What is steam?
Hot steam under immense pressure powered the first trains.
This is another word for sour.
What is Tart?
Cherries come in two major varieties: sweet and tart.
This is the name for a group of the same species of fish swimming together in synchrony, similar to what you might see in a water ballet.
What is a school?
Schools of fish are of the same species. A shoal of fish consists of different species all swimming together.
Morocco and Tunisia are on either side of this North African country, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea's coastline.
What is Algeria?
It's the largest country in Africa, and 80% of the Saharan Desert is located within its borders.
It was murder when this actress, born November 2nd, 1942, starred with Robert Wagner on the set of "Hart to Hart" from 1979 to 1984
Who is Stefanie Powers?
In the 1960s, she starred in "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
This is the sugar substitute found in the yellow packets.
What is Splenda?
Splenda is popular brand of sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter than sugar.
Magma is made of melted or partially melted this.
What are rocks?
The liquefied rock is called magma when it is below the Earth's surface. Upon eruption, it is called lava. Temperatures range from between 1,300° and 2,400° Fahrenheit.
This kitchen small appliance company was founded in 1971, and it renowned for its food processors, ice cream makers, blenders, convection ovens and coffee makers.
What is Cuisinart?
Conair, a popular maker of personal care products such as hair dryers, now owns the company.
This is what a group of elephants is called.
What is a herd?
A herd of elephants is usually the nuclear family and any of the daughters babies. When multiple herds of elephants join together, it is called a clan.
This south Asian, or middle eastern, nation was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979, but were able to drive them out with the help of American weapons and training.
What is Afghanistan?
Afghanistan has been called "the graveyard of empires" because of the difficulty of conquering it. The country's mountainous terrain, desert conditions, and its peoples' guerilla warfare have made it difficult for invaders to maintain long-term rule.
On November 18, 1978, in Guyana, South America, this preacher led his followers in mass suicide when they drank poisoned Kool-Aid.
Who is Jim Jones?
The site of the mass suicide was Jones' compound, which was named for him - Jonestown.
This finely granulated sugar is commonly used in the UK.
What is caster sugar?
The size of caster sugar granules falls between regular sugar and powdered sugar.
The heat of peppers is measured on this scale.
What is the Scoville scale?
The hottest pepper in the world, the Carolina Reaper, can reach 2.2 million Scoville Units. In comparison, jalapeños typically measure between 2,500 and 8,000 Scoville Units.
Defined by Merriam-Webster as "a broad embankment raised as a fortification." It is referenced in "The Star Spangled Banner"
What is a rampart?
The word appears in the first stanza: "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming."
This is what you call a group of penguins.
What is a colony?
Penguins are social animals and their colonies can reach into the hundreds of thousands
Nestled between Spain and France, this European country is the world's 16th smallest in the world, and is the only country with Catalan(a Spanish dialect spoken in eastern and northeastern regions of Spain) as its official language.
What is Andorra?
It has the most tourists per capita in the world, and is the only country known as a co-principality(led by two princes): the president of France and the Bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.
This event, occurring on November 9, 1989, is considered to be a symbolic end to the Cold War and the beginning of the end of communism in Eastern Europe
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification, which took place on October 3, 1990. The collapse of the Soviet Union followed in December 1991.