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This is another name for powdered sugar.
What is confectioners’ 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? The Antarctic continent is the outlier; it’s a huge desert, even though it’s cold.
Two pints equals this.
What is a quart? Thirty-two ounces equals one quart. Four quarts equals one gallon.
This pole doesn’t belong to a single country but is governed by multiple countries.
What is the South Pole? It falls within the borders of Antarctica and is governed by a treaty signed by 54 countries.
Buenos Aires is the capital of this South American country.
What is Argentina? Three more interesting facts: Nearly 97 percent of Argentinians are of European descent. Argentina’s movie industry is around 100 years old. Its national sport is pato, which is played on horseback and is a cross between basketball and polo.
On November 20, 1947, Philip Mountbatten married this distant cousin.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II? At the time of their marriage, she was Princess Elizabeth. The European royal families are all related.
This is the sugar substitute in the pink packet.
What is Sweet’N Low? It’s a popular brand of saccharin, and it’s 300–500 times sweeter than sugar.
Pottery is fired in these hot ovens.
What are kilns? Temperatures for home kilns typically range from 2,000º to 2,400º Fahrenheit (1,093º to 1,316º Celsius).
This kitchen small appliance company was founded in 1971 and is 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.
These giant mammals, also known as Ursus maritimus, inhabit the North Pole.
What are polar bears? Polar bears are the only bears considered marine mammals because they live on the polar ice and feed on marine animals.
New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania are three of the states of this country in the southern hemisphere.
What is Australia? Did you know that Dutch settlers arrived in Australia before the British did?
Born November 5, 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 return in an hour. 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 AD 79 covered the city of Pompeii.
To go against the grain is to upset this.
What is applecart? The idiom originated in Roman times, when it meant “to mess up the whole thing.”
This pole is land surrounded by water.
What is the South Pole? The North Pole is water (with sea ice on top) surrounded by land.
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.
It was murder when this actress, born November 2, 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.
Sugar is derived from the sugarcane plant or this root vegetable.
What is sugar beet? The majority of U.S. sugar comes from the sugar beet plant.
This once powered trains.
What is steam? Hot steam under immense pressure powered the trains.
This is another word for sour.
What is tart? Cherries come in two major varieties: sweet and tart.
This is the warmest pole.
What is the North Pole? Winter temperatures at the North Pole reach –40ºF (–40ºC), while the South Pole can dip as low as –76ºF (–60ºC). Summer temperatures at the North Pole can reach a balmy 32ºF (0ºC).
Morocco and Tunisia flank this North African country, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea’s coastline.
What is Algeria? It’s the largest country in Africa, and 80 percent of the Saharan Desert is located within its borders.
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 is the generic name for Splenda.
What is sucralose? Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than table sugar.
Magma is made of these melted or partially melted materials.
What are rocks? The liquefied rock is called magma when it is below Earth’s surface. Upon eruption, it is called lava. Temperatures range between 1,300º and 2,400º Fahrenheit (700º to 1,300º Celsius).
This means to one-up or gain an advantage over your intellectual opponent.
What is outsmart? According to Chinese military general Sun Tsu, one way to outsmart your opponent is to use the art of deception to appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
He was the first explorer to reach the South Pole.
Who is Roald Amundsen? Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911.
Once a colony of Portugal, this southwestern African country endured a 27-year civil war, involving troops from Cuba and South Africa, from 1975 to 2002.
What is Angola? While the developed world knows little about Angola aside from its civil war, the country has some magnificent natural attractions and picturesque architecture of Portuguese influence. The official language is Portuguese, and it’s believed that the samba may have originated in Angola.
This online shopping sale day is the Monday after Thanksgiving.
What is Cyber Monday? In 2005, consumers spent $484 million. In 2023, sales reached $12.4 billion.
This finely granulated sugar is commonly used in the UK.
What is caster sugar? The size of caster sugar granules falls between regular and powdered sugar.
The heat of peppers is measured on this scale.
What is the Scoville scale? Bell peppers are in the 2,000-unit range. The hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, can reach 2.2 million Scoville units.
Defined by Merriam-Webster as “a broad embankment raised as a fortification and usually surmounted by a parapet,” 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 pole has mountains.
What is the South Pole? The mountains are not visible, however, because they are buried under the ice and snow.
This European country is the world’s 16th smallest and 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 Catelonia, Spain.
Born November 22, 1932, Robert Vaughn plays this character in the 1960s hit spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Who is Napoleon Solo? His costar David McCallum plays Illya Kuryakin. In 1970, Vaughn earned a PhD in communications at the University of Southern California.