How Have You Bean? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lima

Lima Beans contain small amounts of cyanogens which are converted by enzymes into cyanide. However, soaking the beans and cooking the beans release the cyanogens thereby making the beans edible. Modern varieties of lima beans contain much fewer cyanogens than heirloom seeds.

Answer: Orson

Orson Bean was born in 1928 and was a cousin of Calvin Coolidge. Known for his quick and keen wit he was a regular staple on the Jack Paar show and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I remember him mostly from the game show "What's My Line".

Answer: Orson Scott Card

Bean was a soldier in Ender's army, became a Captain in his own right and was the subject of more books in the Ender series. Such as "Ender's Shadow" and "Shadow of the Hegemon".

The entire series consists of 8 books plus a collection of 3 novellas.

Answer: String

Stringbean was born David Akeman and was given the name Stringbean by his first band leader, Asa Martin. He became known as a banjo playing comedian and was an original cast member of "Hee Haw". He and his wife were tragically murdered November 10, 1973 when they surprised two burglars upon arriving at home.

Answer: Soy

Soy beans are very versatile. They are made into tofu, oil; both for cooking and lubrication and many many other products including paint, meal, cattle food, dairy substitutes including ice cream.

Answer: The unripened state of the bean.

If the bean is picked before the pod becomes dry or ripened, they are said to be picked green. These are generally taste enough to be eaten raw or cooked. So "green beans" are beans picked before ripening and in fact, many "green beans" may be colors other than green.

Answer: The Americas and Asia

In the Americas, the bean is known as a kidney bean while in Asia, it is a different strain known as the Azuki. Both are similar in nutritional value and both are used whole or as a paste.

Answer: Boston

Boston has been associated with a baked bean dish made with molasses since colonial times. This stems from the triangle trade when cane sugar was imported to New England and made into rum, with its by product, molasses. There was so much molasses in Boston that in 1919 a cask of molasses burst, flooding the street and killing 21 people. Due to the popularity of "Boston Baked Beans" Boston was given the nickname "Bean Town".

Answer: Garbanzo

It is a very old cultivated bean known by the Greeks and Romans in ancient times. The chick pea is high in protein and it was perhaps, one of the earliest cultivated beans.

Answer: So let's have beans with every meal

Who knows from whence this ditty came, but kids have sung it from times unknown. However, the cause of the toot is related to the length of time beans are in the digestive system. Since beans are slow to digest, they actually begin to ferment in the intestines and it is during this process that gas is produced.