Bacon Basics
Kevin Bacon
In the Movies
Bacon in Art
Bacon & Music
100
This cut of pork comes from the belly of the pig and is the source of most classic American bacon.
What is pork belly?
100
This actor starred as Ren McCormack, the teenager who challenges a town's ban on dancing.
Who is Kevin Bacon?
100
This 1994 comedy features a famous breakfast scene involving bacon and eggs during a repeating day.
What is Groundhog Day?
100
This art genre specializes in paintings of food, flowers, glassware, and other arranged objects.
What is still life?
100
This band recorded the song “Pork and Beans.”
Who is Weezer?
200
This process preserves bacon by treating the pork with salt, often along with sugar and curing agents.
What is curing?
200
This 1984 film made Kevin Bacon famous as a teenager who rebels against a town’s ban on dancing.
What is Footloose?
200
This 2006 animated film follows a rat who becomes a chef and features an obsession with fine food.
What is Ratatouille?
200
This painter is known for still-life paintings that often depict tables covered with food and cured meats.
Who is Diego Velázquez?
200
This instrument is a low-pitched member of many rhythm sections and can be heard in jazz, rock, and pop.
What is the double bass?
300
This cooking method is popular because it renders fat evenly and can produce crisp bacon with less splatter.
What is oven baking?
300
The “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game connects actors through appearances in these.
What are movies?
300
This 2011 film about the Muppets includes plenty of food-related comedy.
What is The Muppets?
300
This 20th-century painter shares his surname with the breakfast food and is famous for distorted human figures.
Who is Francis Bacon?
300
This singer released a song simply titled “Bacon” in 2015.
Who is Nick Jonas?
400
This European country is famous for a cured pork product called lardons, often used in dishes such as quiche Lorraine.
What is France?
400
Kevin Bacon played Ryan Hardy, a former FBI agent, in this television thriller.
What is The Following?
400
This 2013 film about excess on Wall Street uses luxurious food and drink to emphasize its characters’ wealth.
What is The Wolf of Wall Street?
400
Francis Bacon was born in this European city before becoming a major British painter.
What is Dublin?
400
This American rock band recorded “Pork and Beans,” a playful title that sounds like a diner special.
Who is Weezer?
500
This browning reaction creates many of the savory aromas and flavors associated with cooked bacon.
What is the Maillard reaction?
500
This Kevin Bacon film features him as a mysterious celebrity in a satirical comedy about Hollywood and addiction.
What is The Big Picture?
500
This 1999 animated film features a breakfast scene with bacon as part of a giant feast.
What is The Iron Giant?
500
Francis Bacon’s paintings are often described as unsettling, distorted, and figurative in their depiction of these.
What are human figures?
500
This composer wrote music for the film score of The Bacon, a fictional trick title; the correct response is that no such famous film score exists.
What is a trick question?
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