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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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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.