THAT FOOD IS FIRE
POLITICAL JOHNS
ANIMALS
EARTH SCIENCE
CHOCOLATE
100

Coat the freshly sliced bananas in a caramelized sugar sauce & ignite dark rum in this dessert

Bananas Foster

100

This political John spent six years (1967 to 1973) in a Vietnamese prison. 

John McCain 

100

According to Mark Twain, this is “the only animal that blushes … or needs to.” 

Humans 

100

This element, which is basically sand, is the main component in glass, ceramics, and computer chips. 

Silicon 

100

This company is the largest chocolate manufacturer in the United States. 

Hershey 

200

3 little French words, this dish is chicken braised in wine, mushrooms & lardons, often with cognac flabé action

Coq au vin

200

This political John was portrayed in his previous occupation by actor Ed Harris in the movie The Right Stuff. 

John Glenn 

200

Birds live in an aviary. What lives in an apiary? 

Bees 

200

The earth’s crust is made up of seven or eight major plates. What happens when two of those plates move against each other? 

An earthquake 

200

This 1994 movie featured the famous line: “Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get.” 

Forrest Gump 

300

A food blogger thought that turning 30 "calls for blowing up an ice cream cake in flames" & detailed a recipe for this

Baked Alaska

300

This political John suffered a fractured skull at the hands of Alabama State police in a civil rights march in 1965. 

John Lewis 

300

This bird hatches out of the largest egg in the world. 

Ostrich 

300

Roughly 17 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was formed when this river carved a nearly 300-mile-long path through the earth. 

The Colorado River 

300

In 1861, this British chocolate maker was the first to come up with the idea of a heartshaped box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day. 

Cadbury 

400

The entrée called steak her dates to the 1930s & includes a filet, cream, shallots, Worcestershire & flambéed cognac. 

Steak Diane

400

This Ohio John became Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2011. Due to discord in his own Republican conference, he resigned in 2015 and was replaced by Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. 

John Boehner 

400

The name of this large and fierce African mammal means “horn on the nose.” 

Rhinoceros 

400

Thanks to these preserved specimens, scientists have significant knowledge of prehistoric plant and animal life. 

Fossils 

400

The earliest written account of using chocolate is attributed to the Olmec tribes of this country around 1000 BC. 

Mexico. (The Olmecs used chocolate, without sugar, as a bitter drink.) 

500

Legend has the Prince of Wales asking the creator of this dessert that gets lit to end it with a female name instead of Princesse

Crepes Suzette

500

This John, from South Dakota, is the current Senate Majority Leader.

John Thune

500

This animal is the source of cashmere wool.

Goat

500

There are two major ice sheets on the earth. One of them covers most of Antarctica, and the other covers most of this island.

Greenland

500

This European nation discovered chocolate in Mexico and then kept it a secret for almost a hundred years.

Spain. Keeping the origin of chocolate a secret allowed Spain to control the lucrative chocolate market for nearly a century.