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May 20, 2008

Random Food Trivia Quiz — Answers!

Here are the answers to our Random Food Trivia Quiz. If you didn't already take the quiz, click here to get it (before you read the answers... No cheating!)

1. When first created, Coca-Cola was originally:
d. Green!
Ew... Nothing like a slime-colored, carbonated drink to quench your thirst.

2. Despite common belief, when you eat lobster or shrimp "tails," you're not actually eating the tail. You're eating:
c. The abdomen
-- The real "tail" is actually the inedible fins at the end. Also, that "vein" that runs down the back of shrimp tails isn't really a vein -- it's intestine!

3. Which of these foods actually contains negative calories?
c. Celery
-- Celery actual contains zero calories, so you actually use more calories simply chewing it than you take in! If you ask us, there should be more foods like this...

4. Americans eat 18 acres of this every day:
c. Pizza!
That's roughly equal to 13.5 football fields. Makes us wonder just how many slices...

5. True/False: Drinking ice water burns more Calories than un-chilled water.
a. True
-- You use about 17.5 Calories just bring a cup of ice water up to body temperature. So if you drink the recommended 8 glasses a day iced, you could burn an extra 70 calories!

6. The combination of wintergreen, vanilla and cassis (a form of cinnamon) make up this commonly recognized flavor:
b. Bubblegum
-- The vanilla part doesn't really surprise us, but who knew those sugary sweet pink bubblegum sticks actually had wintergreen and cinnamon-flavors in them?!

7. Put the five most popular ice cream flavors in order from 1 to 5 (1 being the most popular):
1. Vanilla; 2. Chocolate; 3. Butter pecan; 4. Strawberry; 5. Neapolitan.
Other popular flavors: Chocolate Chip was #6, Cookies & Cream was #8 and Rocky Road ranked all the way down at #14.

8. Men crave food high in fat; women crave:
d. Chocolate
--Shocking, we know. We're guessing "that time of the month" probably skews the results...

9. On average, it takes about 345 squirts:
a. From a cow's udder to make a gallon of milk.
That's a lot of work for you morning moo juice!

10. True/False: A jelly doughnut has fewer calories than a plain sugared ring doughnut.
a. True
-- While the regular ring doughnut may seem like less food, it has a greater surface area, meaning more of it is exposed to the oil than a whole round jelly one. More surface exposed to the frier = more calories!

11. The U.S. has the largest fast food market in the world. Which country comes in second?
d. China
-- Takee Outee, anyone?

12. In the movie Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock, what was used for the bloody shower scene?
b. Chocolate syrup
-- The 45-second shower scene, which actually took 7 days to shoot, used chocolate syrup for the blood, a common film trick used in black and white movies. Death by chocolate? Yes, please.

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