My, What Big Teeth You Have! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Apples

Crispy, crunchy apples are beautiful and nutritious. Apples grew in the Middle East more than 4,000 years ago, moving into France and England, where cultivated trees have grown since Roman times. Fibrous in the skin and core, about 10% of an apple is carbohydrates, 4% is vitamins and minerals, and the rest is water! Science suggests apples are great for a whole range of health conditions.

Not only that, but taking that delicious bite may decrease tooth decay.

Answer: White Rabbit

White Rabbits are chewy candies very popular in China, tasting like vanilla and sweet milk. Other much-loved chewy candies include taffy, M&M's, caramels, and the incredible edible chocolate anything (even insects).

Answer: Flat

Roti prata ("bread", "flat") is buttery inside and flaky outside, in a dough folded over to create airy, chewy layers. It is often served with curry dipping sauce, or stuffed with onions or eggs.

Bread is a basic food made of flour, water and usually a leavening agent like yeast. It's among our oldest foods, eaten worldwide. Breads and bread-like foods are deeply satisfying to chew. We'd walk a mile for a pizza (an oven-baked flat bread), we adore bagels, English muffins, snickerdoodle pretzels, naan, ciabatta, and hundreds of other tasty, munchy, bite-able breads.

Answer: Big Mac

The origin of hamburgers is hard to pin down, though there seems a connection to the "hamburgs"--European immigrants from Hamburg, Germany. White Castle (1920s) and McDonald's (1940s) introduced mass produced "fast" foods, in particular the hamburger and hot dog, although kababs, sushi and pizza also moved to global popularity as "fast" items.

The "Big Mac" can be found around the world in nearly the exact same recipe. Other giant sandwiches include the "Dagwood", grinders, Po-boys, B.L.T.'s, gyro's and hoagies. You could happily bury those big teeth in any one of those right now, couldn't ya?

Answer: Potato chips (crisps)

Potato chips are called crisps in England, but chips in Yugoslavia, the USA, Australia and many other countries. They come in a wide variety of types and flavors. Thin slices of potato deep fried or baked, these are wonderfully crunchy. They can be seasoned, spiced, herbed or covered with cheese. Lay's potato chips (known as Walkers, Smiths, Chipsy, Poca, Sabritas, and other names around the world) used a slogan in 1961, "betcha can't eat just one". So true. We can't.

The words "crisps" and "chips" are also used for snacks made from popcorn, rice, corn, and other cereals.

Answer: Brownies

Brownies may or may not have come to be when an American cook left out a cake ingredient, but we do know that the recipe first appeared in the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog in 1897. The name indicates their dark color. "Bars and squares" are officially called "cookies" and not cakes or bars, perhaps because they are casual and portable like a cookie, with a dense, rich batter, though they are cooked by spreading batter into a baking pan, like a cake. For squares of all kinds use delectable chocolate chips, marshmallows, nuts, cream cheese, coconut, butter cream icing, lemon filling or dates! A "blonde" brownie, called a Blondie, contains brown sugar instead of cocoa.

Answer: Mushroom

Although many mushrooms are edible, "Pleurotus" (side ear) is perhaps the most widely eaten. It's called an abalone, oyster or tree mushroom, usually a "white-rot fungi on hardwood trees". Yum. There are more than 140,000 species of mushroom, which are not only great raw, rubbed, sliced, or spiced, but they may help control weight, assist the immune system, protect the liver and kidneys, control cholesterol and slow down the growth of tumors, to mention a few of the ways fungi are good for us.

Answer: Crack the shells ourselves

The health benefits of nuts of all kinds is well documented. Archeologists have found nuts and the stone tools humans used to crack them open dating to more than 780,000 years ago. Early Native Americans cracked nuts and ground them to make nut butter, burning the shells as fuel.

Modern humans can buy nuts already cracked, which means we chomp by the handful, consuming far too much fat at a sitting, and upsetting some stomachs. Nutritionists suggest we do the work of cracking the nuts, then soak them in water some hours before eating, to make them more digestible. You can enjoy nuts raw, added to salads, roasted, as a breading, stir-fried, in casseroles, in desserts, as a pesto, on top of fruit or yogurt, in cheese...bon appetit!

Answer: Yes

Not only a great chew, sugarless gum containing xylitol has an ADA (American Dental Association) Seal assuring us it is effective in reducing tooth decay. Chewing itself seems to have positive effects, as well as cleansing the breath. Modern gum is made of a gum base, preservatives, flavoring, coloring, sweeteners and softeners.

The best and longest "chew" may be bubble gum, though all gums lose their flavor quickly. Ancient Greeks, Mayans, Aztecs and Native Americans chewed various forms of gum (tree sap), passing it on to Europeans.

A piece of gum 5,000 years old was found in Finland. US President Obama made negative headlines for chewing gum while visiting China, because chewing is considered rude in some circles. But gum is a national and almost unconscious pass time, for Americans.

Answer: Cookies

At their most basic cookies are flour and sugar, and a favorite around the planet. The Cookie Monster Muppet on the TV show Sesame Street had a voracious desire for food, and a special appetite for cookies. "Me want cookie! Me eat cookie!" he liked to say--a sentiment most of us will echo. Whether chocolate chip, peanut butter, ginger, macaroon, raisin, or sugar, we want cookie. Do not, I repeat, do not refer to the gloriously scrumptious "Anzac biscuit" as a cookie. That's darn near illegal (seriously). Found in your computer, browser or tracking "cookies" are small text files.