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This vitamin—found in high amounts in potatoes—helped prevent scurvy on long sea voyages.
What is Vitamin C?
Beloved by pioneers, school cafeterias, and anyone still clinging to the 1990s, these perfectly uniform ovals fit nicely in a pocket.
What are tater tots?
Madison’s Capitol dome is unique among U.S. state capitols for being the only one constructed entirely of this material.
What is granite?
This 9th‑century invention, often attributed to Chinese alchemists searching for immortality, ended up powering fireworks, cannons, and centuries of warfare.
What is gunpowder?
This quarterback was named MVP of Super Bowl LIX after leading the Eagles to victory.
Who is Jalen Hurts?
Potatoes belong to this plant family, which also includes tomatoes, peppers, and a few plants you'd absolutely never want to put in a casserole.
What is the nightshade (Solanaceae) family?
These crispy heroes have appeared in countless films, but in Pulp Fiction, they became legendary when Vincent Vega questioned why Europeans dip them in mayonnaise — sparking one of cinema’s greatest condiment debates.
What are French fries?
In 1967, this village was accidentally left off the Wisconsin state map, prompting it to symbolically “secede” and form the “Sovereign State.”
What is Winneconne?
This animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans’ that they can contaminate crime scenes.
What is a koala?
In 2025, Hollywood rebooted this franchise for the fourth time, citing “the timeless appeal of dinosaurs learning absolutely nothing.”
What is Jurassic Park/Jurassic World?
This plant disease, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, triggered the mid‑19th‑century Irish famine by devastating potato crops.
What is late blight?
If Iron Man ever needed a snack mid‑flight, these would be the only food aerodynamic enough to survive in the suit — thin, dramatic, and prone to shattering under pressure.
What are potato chips?
Known as “Spring City,” this Wisconsin community became famous in the late 19th century for its healing natural springs.
What is Waukesha?
On June 26, 1974, the first retail barcode scan rang up a 10‑pack of this specific gum at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
What is Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit?
Celebrities remembered in 2025 included this iconic Black Sabbath singer and rock legend.
Who was Ozzy Osbourne?
This starchy part of the potato plant is the reason potatoes can sprout from “eyes.”
What is a tuber?
Varieties include German, Amish, American, Mustard.
What is potato salad?
This city southeast of Madison is known for its strong Norwegian heritage and annual Syttende Mai celebration.
What is Stoughton?
This Shakespeare play contains the only known usage of the word puke in Early Modern English.
What is As You Like It?
In May 2025, Chicago‑born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope, taking this papal name and becoming the first American pontiff.
Who is Pope Leo XIV?
NASA once tested potatoes for off‑planet farming because of their hardiness, efficiency, and calories — effectively making the potato the first vegetable to have a more promising space career than most human astronauts. These experiments primarily studied which controlled‑environment farming technique?
What is hydroponics?
Described by some as “the crossover event of the carb world,” this KFC creation assembles mashed potatoes, corn, chicken, gravy, and cheese like the Avengers of comfort food.
What is the KFC Famous Bowl?
This city is home to the nation’s first rail‑trail conversion, a transformation of a former Chicago & North Western Railroad line completed in 1967.
What is Sparta?
Coined in 1964, this term describes the earthy smell after rain on dry ground.
What is petrichor?
Border clashes erupted between these two countries over a dispute tied to the ancient Prasat Ta Muen Thom temple.
Thailand and Cambodia