Pick the Proper Pepper! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Six

A 'peck' is an imperial measurement that is equal to eight quarts, or two gallons, or one fourth of a bushel. By imperial standards this is equal to 554.84 cubic inches.

In the US, a peck is only used for dry good measurements, while under the British Imperial System it is used for either dry or wet goods. With the slightly different measurements in the US, the value of a peck is only 537.6 cubic inches.

The original tale of Peter Piper's pickled pepper pinching:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Answer: Circular spirals

The scientific name for the sundial snail is 'Architectonicidae,' and within the family there are nearly 50 different genera that have been classified. At least 'she' was actually selling shells from the sea, as sundial snails are in fact sea snails, or more formally, marine gastropod mollusks.

The familiar shape of the Shell gasoline station logo is a representation of the scallop shell (or Pecten). It has been their logo since 1904, superseding the mussel shell that had been adopted in 1901.

This shellish scene was based on:

She sells sea shells on the sea shore;
The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure.
So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore,
I'm sure that the shells are sea shore shells.

Answer: No

Chiswick is a suburb of West London in England. As such, the laws regarding capital punishment in the United Kingdom apply. The penalty of capital punishment for murder was abolished in England in 1969, with the last execution prior to that date occurring in 1964. All other instances for which the death penalty was still allowed after that were abolished in 1998, and further to that in 2004, the European Convention on Human Rights bound England to never reestablishing the death penalty (as long as they stay a party to the Convention).

The original tale of a destructive woodchuck is below:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood.

Answer: The furnace smokestack

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a flue as an enclosed passageway for directing a current, such as a channel in a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

There is no stated origin for the term, although it should be noted that the word has been in common use in the English language since the late 16th century.

The original tale of fugitives fleeing:

A flea and a fly in a flue,
were imprisoned. So what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee".
Said the flea, "Let us fly".
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Answer: Angel Food Cake

Angel Food Cake (in its simplest form) is made with egg whites, cream of tartar, sugar, (cake) flour, salt, water, and vanilla and almond extracts. There are variations, but none I saw (I checked 10 different recipes) called for butter or a butter substitute. Angel Food Cakes are typically baked in a tube pan or bundt pan.

Betty's original butter that made her batter bitter is below:

Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 't was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

Answer: Nose pick

A half-diamond pick is probably the most common lock-picking tool, and a lock-picking tool kit would come with three or four varieties. It is so named due to the shape at the tip of the tool: >

Similar to the half-diamond pick is the hook pick, the only difference being that the end of the tool is hook-shaped rather than half-diamond shaped.

The rake pick is less elegant of a tool, designed to 'rake' the locking pins by sliding past the pins repeatedly until they reach the shear line. The other two named picks usually use more finesse to feel out and pick individual pins.

At least Rick actually used a lock that the slick joker had to pick:

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.

Answer: the letter c in a circle

The copyright symbol was first introduced in the United States Copyright Act of 1909. Some time after that, the symbol was adopted by two recognized international Conventions on copyrighting as a universally recognizable symbol: The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (first established in 1886); and the Universal Copyright Convention of 1952.

The copyrighted copy of the question was based on the following copy:

When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. You can write good and copyright but copyright doesn't mean copy good - it might not be right good copy, right?

Now, writers of religious services write rite, and thus have the right to copyright the rite they write.

Conservatives write right copy, and have the right to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric might write right rite, and have the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright would be right. Then it might be copy good copyright.

Should Thom Wright decide to write, then Wright might write right rite, which Wright has a right to copyright. Copying that rite would copy Wright's right rite, and thus violate copyright, so Wright would have the legal right to right the wrong. Right?

Legals write writs which is a right or not write writs right but all writs, copied or not, are writs that are copyright. Judges make writers write writs right.

Advertisers write copy which is copyright the copy writer's company, not the right of the writer to copyright. But the copy written is copyrighted as written, right?

Wrongfully copying a right writ, a right rite or copy is not right.

(Copyright 1991 Shelley Herman S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Whittier Chapter.)

Answer: Gunshot residue

Gunshot residue is the leftover bits that are detectable after a gun has been fired. Mostly it is comprised of particles of the explosive primer and the propellant (the two things that together make the gun go bang and shoot the bullet), as well as possibly bits from the cartridge and bullet itself.

Sam Shott's original dastardly deed is described below:

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?

Answer: Seven

The United Arab Emirates (also simply called the Emirates) borders the waters of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, while sharing land borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia. There are seven emirates in the federation. From largest to smallest by area, they are:

Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Fujairah, Umm al-Quwain, and Ajman.

Thus, the sixth-largest sheikhdom as per the scenario in the question would be Umm al-Quwain.

"The Guinness Book of World Records" lists this poor tale of sick sheep as being the most difficult tongue twister:

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Answer: False

After the War of the Roses, the Tudors came into power, beginning with Henry VII. In all, five monarchs reigned from the Tudor family: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. The dynasty lasted from 1485 until 1603, when Elizabeth I died without any heirs.

The Tudor flute-tooting tutor tale:

A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"