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100
Does an apple float?
Bonus: Why or why not?
Yes, apples float (in water of course)!
Apples are one of the only fruits that float in water. Just like ice, apples are less dense than liquid water. The fruits are actually around one quarter air by volume, a feature of their uniquely porous, relatively dry flesh. However apples aren’t the only floaters. Pears float in water too, as do some summer squashes and bananas, which would be much easier to bob for.
100
True or false: Lobsters only turn red when cooked.
True!
Lobsters can look blue, yellow or even a mix of colors, but will turn red when they are cooked, according to the University of Maine's Lobster Institute. That is, unless they're white or albino lobsters. A rare white lobster was found off the coast of Maine in 2021 by James Hook and Company, which said it was a one in 100 million find.
100
What are the most common things people add to their coffee?
Cream, milk and half-and-half, as well as sugar or sugar substitutes.
Some other additions to coffee can be chocolate, cinnamon and nutmeg, ice cream, lemon and lime, honey, even butter and salt!
100
What are cookies traditionally called in England and Australia?
Biscuits!
Cookie popularity spans the globe. In England and Australia, they’re called “biscuits,” and in Spain, they’re galletas. Cookies are keks or Plätzchen (Christmas cookies) in Germany and amaretti or biscotti (among others) in Italy.
100
What are the carved pumpkins we put out for Halloween called?
Jack-o'-Lanterns!
A jack-o'-lantern is a carved lantern, most commonly made from a pumpkin or a root vegetable such as a rutabaga or turnip. Jack-o'-lanterns are associated with the Halloween holiday. Its name comes from the reported phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peat bogs, called will-o'-the-wisps or jack-o'-lanterns. The name is also tied to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard who bargains with Satan and is doomed to roam the Earth with only a hollowed turnip to light his way.
200
True or False: Apples are known as nature's toothbrush.
True!
Apples have long been considered “nature’s toothbrush” because their thick skins and fibrous flesh are just the right texture for the natural brushing of the teeth. In this way, the old nickname holds true. The natural fiber and thick skin act as something like a scrubbing brush to rid your teeth of plaque and build-up.
200
What is the process of a lobster getting out of its old shell called?
Molting
First a lobster must lie down sideways causing the shell to split. The old shell is shed to leave the new, soft shell underneath. Finally, the new shell must harden.
200
Do coffee beans grow on a bush or a tree?
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A bush
The coffee plant, with its glossy green leaves, a compact growth habit, and ripe coffee cherries that taste sweet, fresh, and with notes of florals, makes a surprisingly good potted indoor plant. Native to Ethiopia, the coffee plant (Coffea arabica) will flower in the spring with small white flowers and then bear half-inch berries that gradually darken from green to blackish pods. Each of these fruits contains two seeds, which eventually become the coffee beans you use to brew coffee.
200
True or false: Half of the cookies people bake at home are chocolate chip.
True!
The original recipe for chocolate chip cookies was created in the late 1930s by Ruth Wakefield who famously ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. The delicious mix of crispy cookie and melted chocolate chunks first appeared in her 1938 cookbook “Tried and True,” and was intended to accompany ice cream.
200
What is the only continent pumpkins can't grow on?
Antarctica
Antarctica is the only continent of the seven continents that is unable to grow pumpkins; the United States , India, Canada, China and Mexico are the largest producers of pumpkins.
300
Sir Isaac Newton developed the Law of Universal ______ after an apple fell on him.
Gravity
Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward. He showed that the force that makes the apple fall and that holds us on the ground is the same as the force that keeps the moon and planets in their orbits.
300
Where are a lobster's teeth?
a. In their mouth
b. In their stomach
c. In their claws
d. In their tail
b. In their stomach!
Lobster's teeth are in their stomach. The stomach is located a very short distance from the mouth, and the food is actually chewed in the stomach between three grinding surfaces that look like molar surfaces, called the "gastric mill.
300
True or false: 40% of the world's coffee is produced in Africa.
False! It's produced in Brazil.
One of every three cups of coffee consumed in the world is Brazilian, so it’s no surprise as the producer of a third of the world’s coffee that Brazil is also its number 1 exporter. Coffee grown in Brazil is predominantly of the Arabica variety, making up around 80% of the total crop with harvest season running from May to August.
300
Which is the top selling cookie of the 20th Century?
a. Oatmeal Cream
b. Nilla Wafers
c. Chips Ahoy
d. Oreo
d. Oreo
Milk's favorite cookie! Oreos were first manufactured at the Nabisco factory in New York City on March 6, 1912. Oreo released two flavors that year including original Oreos and a lemon meringue flavor, which was discontinued in 1920. Each Oreo wafer is baked for exactly 290.6 seconds at a temperature of 400°F from above and 300°F from below.
300
True or false: Pumpkins are a vegetable.
False, they are a fruit!
A pumpkin, from a botanist's perspective, is a fruit because it's a product of the seed-bearing structure of flowering plants. Vegetables, on the other hand, are the edible portion of plants such as leaves, stems, roots, bulbs, flowers, and tubers.
400
Apples are a member of the ____ family of plants.
a. Rose
b. Tulip
c. Orchid
d. Fish
a. Rose
Trees that bear fruit in the rose family are: apples, pears, plums, cherries, apricots and peaches. Also, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries are all members of the Rosacea Family.
400
Where are most lobsters usually found?
Maine, the northeastern coast of North America and the Atlantic Provinces of Canada.
Most lobsters are caught using lobster traps, although lobsters are also harvested as bycatch by bottom trawlers, fishermen using gillnets, and by scuba divers in some areas. Maine prohibits scuba divers from catching lobsters; violations are punishable by fines of up to $1000. Maine also prohibits the landing of lobsters caught by bottom trawlers and other "mobile gear". Massachusetts offers scuba divers lobster licenses for a fee, and they are only available to state residents. Rhode Island also requires divers to acquire a permit.
400
What does "espresso" mean?
a. Speed it up
b. To go
c. Forced out
d. Black and intense
c. Forced out
In Italian, the word espresso literally means “when something is forced out.” And to make sure everyone is on the same page, the word is pronounced “es-press-o,” not “ex-spress-o.”
400
What are the top 5 most popular types of cookies?
Chocolate Chip Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Peanut Butter Blossoms and Sugar Cookies.
What is your favorite type of cookie?
400
In the nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater", what couldn't Peter keep?
A wife!
The rhyme went:
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
500
New York is the 2nd highest producer of apples in the United States, what state is the first?
Washington
Washington is the #1 producer of apples in the U.S., accounting for over 1/2 of the apple production.
Early settlers learned that the area’s rich lava-ash soil and plentiful sunshine created ideal conditions for growing apples. The arid climate also meant fewer insect and disease problems, thereby increasing the overall pristine quality of the apples through to harvest. Noting the health and vigor of apple trees planted along stream banks, pioneers developed irrigation systems. By 1889, commercial orchards were established.
500
How long can lobsters live for?
Up to 100 years!
Some lobsters, however, do have extraordinarily long life spans. The American lobster can live to at least 100 years, which is more than five times the life span of the Caribbean spiny lobster, which doesn't even make it to 20 years.
Water temperature explains most of this difference in age. When lobsters are in warm water, such as the Caribbean, they have faster metabolisms. Conversely, when they're in cold water, their metabolisms are slower.
500
What coffee is "good to the last drop"?
Bonus: What is known as the "Heavenly Coffee"?
Maxwell House
The Maxwell House logo shows a tipped coffee cup with the last drop pouring out. The logo was created in 1917. There is an apocryphal story that Theodore Roosevelt complimented this coffee on a visit to Tennessee when he said the coffee was "good to the last drop."
Bonus: Chock Full o'Nuts!
500
What ingredient causes cookies to rise?
Baking Powder.
The type of leavening you use in your cookies doesn't just help them rise while baking, it affects their texture and structure too. Baking soda in cookies yields a denser cookie with craggy tops, while baking powder causes cookies to rise higher during baking for a cakier texture.
500
True or False: You can eat every part of a pumpkin.
False (unless you really want to brave eating a pumpkin stalk!)
You can eat all of the pumpkin - except for its stalk. Whether you can eat the skin or not depends on the variety. Smaller varieties such as onion squash have deliciously edible skin, the skin of larger varieties may be too tough to eat or less than appealing. For types such as the butternut squash, whether you eat the skin or not is down to personal taste. Pumpkins are a great source of vitamins A and C, iron and riboflavin.