Popcorn Trivia
This person started growing popping corn in 1919 when he was just 12 years old
Who is Orville Redenbacher?
Who is known as "The King of Pop Music"?
Popcorn is the official state snack of this midwestern state.
What is Illinois?
The youngest known inaugural poet who spoke at the 2021 presidential inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This person developed 300 derivative products from peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Popped popcorn comes in two shapes, one of which is a type of fungi. Name of one them.
What is Snowflake or Mushroom?
Which soul queen is responsible for the hit song "Respect"?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
How many different flavors of popcorn does Still Poppin Gourmet Popcorn sell?
What is over 40?
This woman became the first African American writer to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Scientist, astronomer, inventor, and mathematician Benjamin Banneker helped design the blueprints for this U.S. city.
What is Washington D.C.?
It would take 352,028,160 popped kernels to make a trail of popcorn that stretched from these two coastal U.S. cities.
What is New York to Los Angeles?
This artist is the most decorated black female Grammy winner of all time.
Who is Beyonce?
Americans ate three times as much popcorn during WWII due to rationing of this other food item which made candy much more expensive.
What is Sugar?
She became the first black woman to win team USA a gold medal in speed skating (Hint: at the Beijing Olympics).
Who is Erin Jackson?
Lonnie Johnson is best known for inventing this type of toy gun used to cool off during the summer.
What is the Super Soaker?
Kernels that don't pop are known by these two names, one of which is also a card game. Name one of them.
What are Old Maids or Spinsters?
Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of hip hop?
What is the Bronx, New York City?
In movie theaters, for every dollar spent on popcorn, this amount in cents is profit (Hint: Theaters make a lot of money off of Popcorn!).
What is 90 cents?
She may have been gone in the wind, but she did win the 1940 Oscar, making her the first African American to do so.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
Garret Morgan patented the first one of these, after witnessing a crash at an intersection between a car and buggy.
What is the three-way traffic signal?
This state produces an estimated 250 million pounds of popcorn per year - more than any other state.
What is Nebraska?
"Strange Fruit" was one of this artists biggest and most controversial hits.
Who is Billie Holiday?
Still Poppin's current location was formerly home to this café for over 40 years and was referred to as the black city hall.
What is the Fair Deal Café?
She became the first black woman to enter outer space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
She invented a line of African American hair care products and became a self made millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?