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This is another name for powdered sugar.
Answer: What is confectioners’ sugar? To prevent clumping, it’s mixed with cornstarch.
Though these land areas can be cold, they are usually known for their hot, dry climate.
Answer: What are deserts? The Antarctic continent is the outlier; it’s a huge desert, even though it’s cold.
This pole doesn’t belong to a single country but is governed by multiple countries.
Answer: What is the South Pole? It falls within the borders of Antarctica and is governed by a treaty signed by 54 countries.
Buenos Aires is the capital of this South American country.
Answer: What is Argentina? Three more interesting facts: Nearly 97 percent of Argentinians are of European descent. Argentina’s movie industry is around 100 years old. Its national sport is pato, which is played on horseback and is a cross between basketball and polo.
On November 20, 1947, Philip Mountbatten married this distant cousin.
Answer: Who is Queen Elizabeth II? At the time of their marriage, she was Princess Elizabeth. The European royal families are all related
This is the sugar substitute in the pink packet.
Answer: What is Sweet’N Low? It’s a popular brand of saccharin, and it’s 300–500 times sweeter than sugar.
Pottery is fired in these hot ovens.
Answer: What are kilns? Temperatures for home kilns typically range from 2,000º to 2,400º Fahrenheit (1,093º to 1,316º Celsius).
These giant mammals, also known as Ursus maritimus, inhabit the North Pole.
Answer: What are polar bears? Polar bears are the only bears considered marine mammals because they live on the polar ice and feed on marine animals.
New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania are three of the states of this country in the southern hemisphere.
Answer: What is Australia? Did you know that Dutch settlers arrived in Australia before the British did?
Born November 5, 1911, Roy Rogers, “King of the Cowboys,” married this “Queen of the West.”
Answer: Who is Dale Evans? She was also known as “Queen of the Cowgirls.” The duo is known for their signature tune, “Happy Trails.” Together, they made the film My Pal Trigger, featuring Rogers’ ever-present horse.
This gives brown sugar its flavor.
Answer: What is molasses? When the molasses loses moisture due to air exposure, this causes brown sugar to harden. When brown sugar clumps, place a piece of bread in the container and return in an hour. The molasses in the sugar absorbs the moisture from the bread.
This hot event occurred on Mount Vesuvius.
Answer: What is a volcanic eruption? The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 covered the city of Pompeii.
This pole is land surrounded by water.
Answer: What is the South Pole? The North Pole is water (with sea ice on top) surrounded by land.
This country was part of an empire with Hungary from 1867 to 1918.
Answer: What is Austria? Notable Austrians include Josef Madersperger, who invented the sewing machine, and Ferdinand Porsche, inventor of the eponymous car, who was from Austria-Hungary
) It was murder when this actress, born November 2, 1942, starred with Robert Wagner on the set of Hart to Hart from 1979 to 1984.
Answer: Who is Stefanie Powers? In the 1960s, she starred in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Sugar is derived from the sugarcane plant or this root vegetable.
Answer: What is sugar beet? The majority of U.S. sugar comes from the sugar beet plant.
Magma is made of these melted or partially melted materials.
Answer: What are rocks? The liquefied rock is called magma when it is below Earth’s surface. Upon eruption, it is called lava. Temperatures range between 1,300º and 2,400º Fahrenheit (700º to 1,300º Celsius).
This is the warmest pole.
Answer: What is the North Pole? Winter temperatures at the North Pole reach –40ºF (–40ºC), while the South Pole can dip as low as –76ºF (–60ºC). Summer temperatures at the North Pole can reach a balmy 32ºF (0ºC).
Morocco and Tunisia flank this North African country, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea’s coastline.
Answer: What is Algeria? It’s the largest country in Africa, and 80 percent of the Saharan Desert is located within its borders.
On November 18, 1978, in Guyana, South America, this preacher led his followers in mass suicide when they drank poisoned Kool-Aid.
Answer: Who is Jim Jones? The site of the mass suicide was Jones’ compound, which was named for him—Jonestown.
This finely granulated sugar is commonly used in the UK.
Answer: What is caster sugar? The size of caster sugar granules falls between regular and powdered sugar.
The heat of peppers is measured on this scale.
Answer: What is the Scoville scale? Bell peppers are in the 2,000-unit range. The hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, can reach 2.2 million Scoville units.
This pole has mountains.
Answer: What is the South Pole? The mountains are not visible, however, because they are buried under the ice and snow.
This European country is the world’s 16th smallest and the only country with Catalan (a Spanish dialect spoken in eastern and northeastern regions of Spain) as its official language.
Answer: What is Andorra? It has the most tourists per capita in the world and is the only country known as a co-principality (led by two princes): the president of France and the bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.
This online shopping sale day is the Monday after Thanksgiving.
Answer: What is Cyber Monday? In 2005, consumers spent $484 million. In 2023, sales reached $12.4 billion.