Thematic Sweets Trivia

1. On his 2005 "A Salty Piece of Land" tour, Jimmy Buffet played two sell out nights at which Chicago stadium?

From Quiz The Chew Chew Train

Answer: Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field has been home to the Chicago Cubs baseball team since 1916, although it was known as Weeghman Park at that time. William Wrigley Jr. of the famed gum company was one of the syndicate's owners, but took over complete control in 1921, and in 1927, the park was renamed. Other acts to play Wrigley Field include AC/DC, Roger Waters and Bruce Springsteen.

From Quiz One Lump or Two

Answer: Australia

Sugar gliders are a small tree-dwelling marsupial species (Petaurus breviceps) related to the opposum. Although omnivorous, sugar gliders have a preference for sugary foods such as sap and nectar. Not able to truly fly, sugar gliders are able to glide using their patagia, membranes that extend from their front limbs to their rear limbs. The natural habitat of sugar gliders is northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea.

From Quiz Up a Chewing Gum Tree

Answer: Greek

Many ancient civilisations chewed gum from one source or another. There is even evidence that a type of 'gum' derived from birch bark tar was used in prehistoric times in Northern Europe. It is believed that the Ancient Greeks chewed the resin they obtained from the Mastic tree as far back as the year 50 AD. American Indians chewed gum derived from the spruce tree, which they introduced to settlers in North America, who in turn produced the first commercial chewing gum, called State of Maine Spruce Gum. A substance called chicle, a latex obtained from the Sapodilla tree, was used in Mayan culture; although the majority of chewing gum nowadays is made from synthetic gum, chicle is still the principal ingredient in some parts of the world.

From Quiz Chocolate, Anyway You Like

Answer: Joanne Harris

"Chocolat" takes place between and Easter and tells of the dislike by the priest for the chocolatier, Vianne Rocher, who seems to have entranced the villagers, knowing just what they would prefer. She also has become a friend to all, and they tell her their trials and secrets. (It seems her mother was a witch and perhaps some powers have come through to her.) Vianne plans to have a Chocolate Festival on Easter Sunday which the priest, naturally, is adamant won't occur. To find out what happens and more, you must read the book. (It was also made into a movie, but I haven't seen it so I cannot say how much it may have varied from the book.)

From Quiz A Box of Animal Crackers

Answer: Curly Top

"Curly Top" was one of four films Shirley Temple starred in during 1935. The other films were: "The Little Colonel"; "Our Little Girl"; and "The Littlest Rebel". This was down from eleven films in 1933 and twelve films in 1934.

From Quiz All About Honey

Answer: a food made of nectar from flowers

Not all honey is made by honeybees. Other insects and bees make it as well, and there are distinctly different tastes. Honey is sweet, having most likely the same sweet effect as granulated sugar. It gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. Our first saying is: "Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all: A sting and honey and a body small." This has been called an anonymous Spanish and Latin epigram.

From Quiz Me Love Cookie!

Answer: Dec. 2, 1969

The Muppet Cookie Monster appeared in skits previous to this, but was not known as Cookie Monster. He was also known as Alistair Cookie. Cookie was created by famed Muppet Master Jim Henson.

From Quiz The Great Christmas Pi(e) Caper

Answer: 3

As there are traditionally considered to have been three Magi (Wise Men) in the Christmas story, Johnny was pretty stingy with his chocolate! Christmas stocking cookies can be made using any good cookie dough. Here's one example: This cookie dough is best used when chilled. Mix it up ahead of time to allow for a couple hours in the refrigerator. 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar - lightly packed 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour Put the butter, both sugars, salt and the baking soda in a large mixing bowl and beat with a mixer for about 3 minutes. Blend in the eggs and vanilla extract. Reduce the mixer speed and add the flour gradually. Roll out the dough, and use a cutter or stencil to cut it to the desired shape. (For Christmas stocking cookies, a stocking shape about 8 cm by 4 cm (foot width) works well. You need two pieces for each stocking. Cut the first one, layer semi-sweet chocolate bits on it, add the top layer and press firmly around the edges.) Bake at 190 C for 10 to 12 minutes (or until cookies are golden) on an ungreased cookie sheet. Cool before decorating.

From Quiz The Chew Chew Train

Answer: Trident

Trident gum was first manufactured by Cadbury and was one of the first sugar free gums, using saccharin in place of sugar from 1964. While Jimmy Carter was president of USA, Trident was declared the official gum of the White House. The trident is a three pronged spear which while excellent for spear fishing was also used in ancient Rome by gladiators trying evade capture in a net.

From Quiz One Lump or Two

Answer: Saccharin & Saccharine

Saccharin has the chemical formula C7H503S. An artificial sweetener, saccharin is far sweeter than sucrose but has a bitter, metallic aftertaste. Developed in the later 1800s, saccharin began seeing widespread use during periods of sugar shortages during World War One. It is believed that consumption of saccharin may lead to increased risks of bladder cancer. Saccharine is an adjective that means excessively sweet or sentimental.

From Quiz All You Need Is Chocolate

Answer: Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz (1922-2000) was an American cartoonist, who wrote the comic strip "Peanuts". In my opinion, a little chocolate is not enough.

From Quiz Up a Chewing Gum Tree

Answer: Lonnie Donegan

Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan (Anthony James Donegan MBE) was known as the 'King of Skiffle'. His famous recording of 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour...' charted in the Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic, making it to number three in the UK and number five in the USA. The song has been used in several advertising jingles and children's television shows over the years. Lonnie Donegan died from a heart attack in 2002 aged 71, having been plagued with heart problems for many years.

From Quiz A Slice of Pie from Pi in the Sky

Answer: Kia Silverbrook

Kia Silverbrook, born in 1958, is an inventor, scientist and entrepreneur and while he has over 4000 US utility patents, he has more than 9000 registered in the international patent document database (INPADOC). His first invention, released in 1984 was the Fairlight CVI, a real-time video effects computer. The following year he founded Integrated Arts, a parallel processing and computer graphics company using the Inmos transputer. Of his patents, several are assigned to companies Kodak, Canon and Cintel but the majority are assigned to his research company Silverbrook Research. Thomas Edison, while a prolific inventor himself, was an American. Lance Hill and David Warren are both Australian inventors. David Warren is credited with inventing the black box flight recorder, which happens to be orange! Lance Hill gave Aussies the Hills hoist which isn't used just for hanging out the washing. Little kids swing around on it while older kids (over the age of 18) use it to play the "Wheel of Goon", a drinking game. Question submitted by leith90

From Quiz A Box of Animal Crackers

Answer: McCoy

McCoy produced a generic animal cracker cookie jar in 1960. The Barnum's Animal Crackers cookie jar was produced in 1972-73.

From Quiz All About Honey

Answer: honey

This is an Arabian proverb. Since many peoples believed that the soul departed from the body, it became the practice to leave honey for the dead in their graves. Some peoples believed that honey was highly pure--pure enough that a corpse might reincarnate. (Democritus believed this, for example). The Egyptians mastered the art of embalming with honey and wax.

From Quiz Me Love Cookie!

Answer: Jerry

Black-and-white cookies are also sometimes referred to as Half-Moons. The black-and-white cookie was featured in Season 5-Episode 77 of the television show "Seinfeld". Jerry and Elaine went to the bakery to purchase a babka, and Jerry ate the cookie while waiting.

From Quiz Fortune Cookie Trivia

Answer: China

Fortune cookies are made in the United States, and are not really from China at all. The fortune cookie is based on a traditional Japanese treat.

From Quiz The Great Christmas Pi(e) Caper

Answer: 1

A baker's dozen is 13 (reportedly, the practice stems from the medieval English bakers' practice, designed to ensure that they were not providing short weight in their dozens), while a dozen is 12. The difference is 1. Traditional (my family's tradition!) Christmas stocking cookie decoration is a red stocking with a white band across the top. After the cookies have cooled, mix confectioner's sugar with water to make a paste, and add red food coloring until the desired shade is reached. Apply to the body of the stocking. Use uncolored sugar paste to provide the white band, then add silver dragees or white sprinkles to add texture.

From Quiz The Chew Chew Train

Answer: 5ive

5ive were a boy band from the management stable of Simon Cowell and enjoyed chart success between 1997 and 2002 when they disbanded. They reformed briefly in 1997 as a four piece band, but still called 5ive and after splitting up again reformed once more in 2012, becoming a trio, still with the name 5ive in 2014. 5 gum is made by Wrigley, and each piece of the gum has just 5 calories, hence the name. It is said to offer a fresh flavour which stimulates the senses, which may explain why the boy band have never been approached to advertise it.

From Quiz One Lump or Two

Answer: Wilford Brimley

Wilford Brimley (born 1934) is an actor who has appeared in television series and motion pictures such as "The China Syndrome" (1979) and "Cocoon" (1985). He was diagnosed with type 2 or adult onset diabetes in 1979. He frequently appears on US television commercials for Liberty Medical, a mail order company that offers diabetes testing supplies and related materials (when he reminds viewers to check their blood sugar--part of the self treatment for diabetes), and the Quaker Oats Company. He was honored in 2008 by the American Diabetes Association for his efforts to spread awareness of diabetes.

From Quiz All You Need Is Chocolate

Answer: Americas

Chocolate is made from cacao. Cacao was first cultivated in Mexico, Central America and Northern South America.

From Quiz Up a Chewing Gum Tree

Answer: Ohio

The first commercial gum, State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum, was made and sold by John B Curtis, of Bangor, Maine in 1848, but the honours for taking out the first patents has its roots in Ohio. Although it was Amos Tyler who took out a patent for his chewing gum recipe in July 1869, he never produced it commercially and it was fellow Ohioan William Finley Semple, a dentist, who filed the first patent for its manufacture in December of that year. Production, though, really took off with the opening of Thomas Adams' factory in New York. Making his chicle-based gum on a machine patented by him in 1871 he sold his product, Adams New York Chewing Gum, through drugstores, and was also responsible for the invention of the world's first chewing gum vending machine.

From Quiz Chocolate, Anyway You Like

Answer: Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks

In "Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks", the protagonist, Fitzie, works his way through college at an ice cream and Popsicle plant, marries his high school sweetheart, takes an ROTC commission and spends some time in the Army, and then comes back, ready to break into the Big Apple big time. He succeeds, and while doing so, due to the untimely death of his mother, realizes that what's most important is not his career, but having someone to love and to love him. He learns that if he and his wife work at it, they can have the success he's made of his career as well as a happy, fulfilling marriage. It's too bad more young couples don't realize that early on.

From Quiz All About Honey

Answer: hope

This comment was made by Robert Green Ingersoll. He was an American statesman and orator who steadfastly defended atheism.

From Quiz Me Love Cookie!

Answer: Air Force One

Glenn Close portrayed Vice President Kathryn Bennett in the movie "Air Force One" (1997). Gary Oldman was the terrorist in control of the aircraft. The quote is given in reference to negotiating with terrorists, implying that if they conceded to the initial demands, there would only be more demands added.

From Quiz Fortune Cookie Trivia

Answer: 8

Her name is Jennifer 8. Lee, but her New York driver license reads "Eight". The number 8 symbolizes prosperity and good luck. I wonder why this doesn't catch on?

From Quiz The Chew Chew Train

Answer: Cheque

A bounced cheque is one which is returned by the bank due to insufficient funds being available to cover the cheque. In Lebanon, Cheque gum is made by the Master company and is available in a variety of flavours including Peppermint, Liquorice Mint and Watermelon as well as Mojito Lime and Birthday Cake.

From Quiz One Lump or Two

Answer: Philadelphia, PA

The location of the casino, along the Delaware River, was formerly the site of the Jack Frost Sugar Refinery. Opening in 2010, the casino contains over 3,000 slot machines and gaming tables. The casino also hosts several dining options and has frequent guest entertainers. The Tasty Baking Company produces the Tastykake line of snack foods.

From Quiz All You Need Is Chocolate

Answer: Dave Barry

Dave Barry wrote a nationally syndicated humourous column for "The Miami Herald" from 1983 to 2005. The situation comedy "Dave's World", based on his books "Dave Barry Turns 40" and "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits", was broadcast for four seasons, from 1993 to 1997.

From Quiz Chocolate, Anyway You Like

Answer: Chocolate

"Chocolate" originally came out on her ninth studio album, "Body Language", in 2003. In 2004 the single became number one in the U.K. and elsewhere, making it her 27th UK top ten single.

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