Up and Down the Scoville Scale Quiz

Answer: Bell peppers

Bell peppers come in many colors, the most common being red, yellow and green. They are used in dishes to provide flavor without "heat"; one example is the plethora of "stuffed pepper" dishes (a personal favorite) that you can find in restaurants, or you can find recipes for them online.

Answer: Tabasco

Tabasco sauce is manufactured on Avery Island in Louisiana. It is one of the most recognizable brands of hot sauce in the world and has spawned lines of merchandise that include t-shirts, neckties and Christmas tree lights.

Answer: Jalapeno

Jalapeno peppers are cultivated in Mexico. Normally, the jalapenos we see in groceries or in restaurants are green, but when fully ripened these peppers are red. A smoked, ripe jalapeno is called a chipotle. In sports arenas across the U.S., corn tortilla chips are topped with cheese sauce and jalapenos to become an order of nachos; don't ask me what the "nacho cheese sauce" is, though - that stuff scares me.

Answer: Bird's Eye

Birds Eye Frozen Foods was founded by American Charles Birdseye after learning from the Inuit that freezing foods (initially fish) quickly and at low temperatures retained their freshness better. Green Giant and Pictsweet are rival companies in the frozen foods business. Husman's is another division of Pinnacle; in this, a snack food company founded in 1919 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

They are commonly used in Vietnamese soups and stir-fries and Thai curries.

Answer: Peter Pepper

The tongue-twiater, if course, is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers", but that's not why the pepper is named the way it is. The name rather alludes to its unusual shape.

Answer: Fruit

Peppers are fruits, which means - among other things, that they are flowering plants that have an edible enclosure for the seeds. Since chilies are normally considered savory in cooking, I thought I'd also point out that the tomato, which partners very nicely with certain types of peppers on pizza and is almost always used in savory recipes, is also a fruit.

Answer: Cayenne

Cayenne peppers are used in whole, dried, crushed and powdered form. They are also one of the main ingredients in Frank's RedHot Sauce and contain Vitamins A, B6, C and E and other nutrients. They are thought to have properties that suppress appetite.

Answer: Habanero

Habanero peppers and Scotch Bonnet peppers are often thought to be the same pepper, but while Habaneros originated in the Amazon region and spread to Mexico, Scotch Bonnets come from the Caribbean. There is also a even hotter chili, called a Red Savina Habanero, that registers between 350,000 and 500,000 on the Scoville scale.

Answer: Pimiento

Pimientos - also spelled pimento - are also called cherry peppers. They have a sweet flavor and are commonly used to stuff olives and in a cheese and luncheon meat, both of which are named for the pepper in question (pimiento cheese and pimiento loaf).

Answer: Carolina Reaper

The Carolina Reaper was the 2013 Guinness World Record holder for the world's hottest pepper. It is grown by the Pucker Butt (no kidding - look it up) Pepper Company. By the way, Rhode Island Red is the name of a breed of chicken.