Dressed to Chill Trivia Quiz

Answer: Drupelets

Each raspberry contains on average 80-100 drupelets. When the fruit is partially ripe, you will see that some drupelets are paler than others. Make sure the fruit is uniformly ripe and fit to burst before popping it into your mouth to get the full flavour as each drupelet explodes onto the palate.

Answer: Sprinkles

All depending on where you come from, nonpareils are also known as Jimmies, Hundreds and Thousands, Sno-Caps, Freckles, Jazzles or Hagelslag. Sprinkled lightly on top of ice cream can give added colour and flavour. These multi coloured tiny shapes made from sugar and starch date back to the 18th century.

Answer: Philippines and Indonesia

The Philippines produce approximately 19,500,000 tonnes of coconut each year, followed by Indonesia with 18,500,000 then India with 11,000,000 tonnes. Other countries which produce these succulently fleshy fruit include Australia, Vietnam and all along the Persian Gulf.

The coconut is not technically a nut but a fruit. Cocoanut is an old Spanish and Portuguese word for cocos, which roughly translates as "grinning face" because of the three holes in the shell resembling a face.

Answer: Xocolataphobia

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter being stuck to the roof of the mouth. Mycophobia is the fear of mushrooms and bananaphobia is the fear of...errm...bananas. For those people who have a chocolate addiction, they will be pleased to hear that some countries coat grasshoppers, squid, scorpions and crickets with chocolate. This may not suit everyone's taste but then some uncivilised countries may consider ice cream topped with chocolate very bizarre.

Answer: Herb

The Marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis) grows well in damp and moist areas throughout the world, but more commonly in Africa and Europe. The plant name derives from the Greek altho (to cure) and malake (soft). The plant root is "mucilaginous", meaning gummy or jelly-like, and it was this that was used by the Egyptians to make confectionary. The treat we use for ice cream toppings today is completely different with corn syrup, sugar and gelatine as the main ingredients.

Answer: Caramel

All of these sauces are easy to make if you follow one golden rule. Always heat at a low temperature as sugar is easy to burn. For those who have burnt sugar in the past, you know what I mean! Caramel sauce has just water and sugar. Butterscotch and toffee sauce have butter, dark sugar and cream. Fudge sauce has the addition of dark chocolate.

Some of these recipes include the aforementioned basic ingredients, but some ask for additional items such as rose water or condensed milk. It is all down to personal taste.

Answer: February, March and April

Obtaining the sap from Maple trees (Acer saccharum) tends to occur between the months of February, March and April, although if the winter is too harsh, or the spring to mild, then the harvest season may be cut short. Approximately 40 gallons of sap are needed to produce one gallon of maple syrup.

These trees never seem to run dry, with some of them being tapped for over 150 years. It is believed the oldest living sugar maple tree, called the Comfort Maple, is 500 years old and still looking healthy in its Canadian habitat.

Answer: Hazelnuts

Filbert or cob nut is an alternative name for this popular addition to ice cream. Cob nuts tend to be more oval in shape whereas filberts are slightly longer. Hazelnuts can be dated back to between 8,000 to 9,000 years ago in areas of Scotland, England and the Isle of Man, where shallow pits have been found containing thousands of empty shells. St Philbert's feast day is celebrated on 20th August, around the time when nuts are normally harvested, and this could account for the name "filbert". Fast forwarding to modern times, Turkey is now the leading producer of hazelnuts.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

It is believed that Queen Elizabeth I presented a shaped biscuit to some of her guests at the royal court during her reign between 1558 and 1603. The biscuit had a marked resemblance to the guest, and was quite possibly decorated with gold leaf and icing. Gingerbread men need to live in gingerbread houses and their popularity became evident after the brothers Grimm wrote the fairytale, Hansel and Gretel. Gingerbread is still popular today especially during the Christmas season, with elaborate home made decorations adorning trees around the world.

Answer: Cream

Cream was a 1960s British band with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. They were known for their jam sessions, improvising tunes unrehearsed to their audience. Also popular bands noted for their jam sessions were the American bands, The Grateful Dead and Phish. Ben & Jerry's ice cream company named a flavour after both of these bands with Cherry Garcia, named after The Grateful Dead singer, Jerry Garcia, and Phish Food named after Phish. How jammy is that!