The Dish on That Dish
In 1976, the FDA banned this color dye No. 2, citing studies that it was carcinogenic.
What is red?
Due to the ban, there were no red M&Ms until they reappeared in 1987.
In 1981, fifty-two hostages were freed in Tehran, in this Middle Eastern nation.
What is Iran?
The hostages had been held since 1979, and their release was frontpage news.
A four-letter word beginning with N that describes an alcove or small, recessed section of a room, usually devoted to one activity.
What is nook?
Examples include a breakfast nook in the kitchen or a corner of a living room.
Snap! Crackle! Pop! The mascots of this cereal are known as Cric, Crac, and Croc in France.
What is Rice Krispies?
In Spain, their names are Cris, Cras, and Cros.
This is one of November’s typically yellow-hued birthstones.
What is topaz (or citrine)?
While both topaz and citrine often come in yellow tones, citrine can also come in brownish orange hues, and topaz are available in a variety of colors.
Trademarked in 1986, the name turducken refers to a specific method of combining these three meats.
What are turkey, duck, and chicken?
The dish was reportedly invented by chef Paul Prudhomme in the 1970s.
In the early ’90s, this former world power was split into 15 independent countries, including Georgia, Estonia, and Belarus
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
The fall of the USSR was caused by many factors, including economic decline.
A burglar, robber, extortionist, etc.
What is crook?
Crook is not a legal term; rather, it is a generic name we give to perpetrators who commit a crime.
The New Testament of the Bible was originally written in this language.
What is ancient Greek?
It’s also known as Koine Greek. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew
This is November’s annual shopping extravaganza in the US.
What is Black Friday?
It is historically the day after Thanksgiving.
Despite unclear origins (either invented in Italy or New York), this tomato-cream sauce made with this alcohol remains a favorite for penne lovers.
What is vodka?
Various chefs have laid claim to the invention of the sauce, tracing it back to the 1970s.
World leader Indira Gandhi was assassinated in this nation in 1984.
What is India?
The tragedy followed months of escalating tensions in the Indian government concerning the Sikh community.
One who is not an accountant but tracks inflows and outflows.
What is bookkeeper?
The bookkeeper records transactions, though there can be some overlap with the accountant’s work. The accountant also analyzes data and performs audits, and some are tax preparers. Bookkeepers and bookkeeping are the only two English words with three sets of double letters.
The original language of One Thousand and One Nights.
What is Arabic?
The collection of tales comes from a translation of other stories written in Persian and other languages. The first person to translate the work into English remains anonymous.
On November 20, 1947, Phillip Mountbatten married this distant cousin.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Queen Victoria was their great-great-great-grandmother, and they knew each other from the time they were children.
In 1986, Swanson frozen dinners swapped out metal trays for plastic ones, in order to be cooked in this device.
What is the microwave?
These dinners are so iconic that, in 1999, Swanson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
In this tiny nation inside of Italy, Pope John Paul II was wounded in May 1981.
What is Vatican City?
The attempt on his life was unsuccessful but did wound him.
The “Wi” in Wi-Fi is assumed to stand for this.
What is wireless?
Wi-Fi doesn’t really stand for anything, but the organization that thought up the term as part of a marketing campaign used the tag line “The Standard for Wireless Fidelity.” Wi-Fi uses a radio spectrum to send signals through the ether via a network without the use of cables.
The English word piano is a borrowed word from this language.
What is Italian?
Piano is a shortened version of the Italian pianoforte. Other borrowed words include entrepreneur, which comes from the French, and kindergarten, from the Germans.
November 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada and this day in the United States.
What is Veterans Day?
Remembrance Day, also called Poppy Day, commemorates those who lost their lives while serving Canada. Both Veterans Day and Remembrance Day were once called Armistice Day.
In 1977, this New York town declared an annual “Chicken Wing Day” to honor a spicy invention by Teressa Bellissimo.
What is Buffalo?
Bellissimo created buffalo wings as a midnight snack for her son and some friends.
The first artificial heart was implanted in a human, Dr. Barney Clark, on December 2, 1982, at a university in this nation.
What is the United States?
The Jarvik 7 heart transplant occurred at the University of Utah.
The double-S word astronauts experience in space due to microgravity.
What is weightlessness?
Extended periods of weightlessness cause many physiological changes. In June 2024, two astronauts who were originally scheduled for an eight-day trip were stranded on the space station for more than eight months. After that length of time, they could have lost up to 20 percent of lean muscle mass and one to two percent of bone density.
This major world language is one of the three official languages of Fiji.
What is English?
The other two official languages are Fijian and Fiji Hindi. Many people in Fiji speak a variant of English with a few Fijian or Hindi words sprinkled in. This is known as Finglish.
What day in November do people in the UK celebrate Guy Fawkes Night annually?
What is November 5th?
Also known as "Bonfire Night", it commemorates a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and VI of Scotland and replace him with a Catholic head of state.