The foodie quiz
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Bucky has invented a wonderful food quiz for us, and I'm not allowed to say he will send you a fabulous prize if you win -- not because he minds sending fabulous prizes that I commit him to without his consent, of course, but because that encourages cheaters.
No Googling or otherwise looking up the answers. If you're the kind of person who will be embarrassed if you don't get all the answers right, use an alias and answer as many as you can off the top of your head.
Once again, no one likes a cheater.
Here's Bucky's quiz. I'll post the answers later today: ...
1. Which has more calories? A jelly doughnut or a regular sugar doughnut?
2. Alfred Hitchcock used what to simulate blood in Psycho’s shower scene?
3. One measurement conversion that has been lost to history is “350 squirts =” what?
4. Little Frankie Epperson was only 11 years old when he invented what?
5. Mix vanilla, wintergreen and cinnamon and what flavor do you get?
6. What’s a more effective weight loss technique than drinking eight glasses of water a day?
7. Cesare Cardini invented what at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico?
8. According to the National Safety Council, this is the fourth leading cause of accidental death in the United States, after car accidents, poisoning and falls.
9. In a test in 1993, this was connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) monitor and produced brain waves identical to those of adult humans.
10. “Desserts” spelled backwards is “_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.”
Scoring:
9 - 10: Wow, you need a life more than I do.
5 - 8: You’re one of Owl Meat’s two dozen personalities, right?
1 - 4: You have a good memory for inconsequential facts.
0: What? WHAT? You can’t even write “desserts” backwards?
(Los Angeles Times photo by Liz O. Baylen)








Comments
1. jelly
2. clamato
3. 16. oz
4. egg in the nest
5. root beer
6. a glass of red wine
7. caesar salad
8. choking
9. a pig
10. R-O-L-A-I-D-S
Posted by: rick | February 27, 2009 10:55 AM
1. Jelly
2. Chocolate Syrup
3. a quart?
4. Popsicles
5. No Idea
6. Bulimia
7. Caesar Salad (just learned this by reading the label on my salad dressing last week!)
8. Choking?
9. See answer #5
10. STRESSED!!!!
Posted by: Greg S | February 27, 2009 10:57 AM
okay, I'll try:
1. jelly doughnut
2. water and red food coloring
3. ummmm. don't know.
4. that's two I don't know.
5. make that three.
6. burning more calories than you ingest.
7. I know this one! Caesar salad! There is even a brand of Caesar salad dressing called Cardini's.
8. choking on food.
9. an ape?
10. stresseD.
I'm pretty sure I got two right, maybe three. All the others are WAGs.
Posted by: PCB Rob | February 27, 2009 11:06 AM
1 - jelly donut.
This question needs some standard of measurement. I used Dunkin' Donuts. Jelly=250, Sugar=190, Glazed=220
2 - chocolate syrup, photographs well in B&W. In color filming they use colored corn syrup.
3 - moo ... a gallon of milk, i learned this the hard way at Bill Heffner's farm
4 - popsicle, that's why i've felt like a failure since i was 12.
5 - bubblegum. i made this once in a bar with liqueurs.
6 - 8 glasses of Mexican water. or eat less, exercise more.
Panama water works too. I remember being delirious from sickness for days in my room in Panama and waking up to see an image of Buddha that looked like Keanu Reeves – it was just that crappy LIttle Buddha movie on the TV.
7 - Caesar ensalada por supuesto
8 - it should be iatrogenic causes, but the ICD doesn't properly agglomerate them, so the answer is drowning, particularly from swimming too soon after eating a hotdog :-)
9 - i want to say Bill Cosby, but I'll go with Jello
10 - stressed
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Controlled KAOS | February 27, 2009 11:33 AM
sorry i googled the dunkin donuts one. it had to done for scientific reasons
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Controlled KAOS | February 27, 2009 11:35 AM
1) sounds like a trick - regular
2) chocolate milk I think
3) the length of an average marriage?
4) let's just say he was no longer master of his domain. (seinfeld ref.)
5) bachelorette party vomit?
6) pig brains in milk!
7) I don't know what you call it, but the donkey killed himself afterwards
8) since it must have somethinig to do with food I'll guess choking
9) A potato, but only for Irishmen
10) B-U-L-E-M-I-A
Posted by: TerrierMom | February 27, 2009 11:51 AM
1. Jelly
2. Chocolate Sauce
3. Quart?
4. Um, sliders?
5. Peppermint?
6. Exercise, burn more than you consume
7. Caesar Salad/Dressing
8. Choking/Asphyxiation
9. Pig
10. stresseD
Posted by: Neighbor | February 27, 2009 12:18 PM
Wow...some really smart people on The Only Blog You'll Ever Need.
EL will publish the answers in a while but I'll give those of you who are fans of The Amazing Race the following hint: the answer to # 9 is not "a flight attendant".
Owlie, you never cease to amaze me, btw.
Posted by: Bucky | February 27, 2009 1:08 PM
Bucky, I hope you have a fabulous prize for TerrierMom for her answer to #3.
Posted by: Laura Lee | February 27, 2009 1:29 PM
Laura Lee, freedom is my fabulous prize, oh yeah, and Jesus ... the pool boy/tulip planter. ~╥╥☺
Spring is coming, the sap must be rising since I see some daffodils poking their way through the soil.
Posted by: TerrierMom | February 27, 2009 3:41 PM
Hmmm--maybe Laura Lippman is really TerrierMom ~╥╥☺ ...
Posted by: Dahlink | February 27, 2009 4:04 PM
What is going on at stately Terrier Manor? Way funnier than mine, TM.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Beat Me Down By the River | February 27, 2009 4:11 PM
You know, TerrierMom, I think despite the rodent seeing his shadow that spring will be early this year. My bulbs are peaking out through the soil as well. And, my partner's german shephard is shedding enough fur to make a doggy wig.
Posted by: Joyce W. | February 27, 2009 8:07 PM
Laura Lippman? I don't get it. Maybe Laura Lee is Laura Lippman is Terriermom is Bruce Lee is Bruce Wayne, Laird of Stately Terrier Manor?
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Beat Me Down By the River | February 27, 2009 11:37 PM
Doggy wig? Who would wear that?
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Beat Me Down By the River | February 27, 2009 11:39 PM
Owl, a Mexican hairless, of course!
Posted by: Joyce W. | February 28, 2009 8:59 AM
Well, Owl Meat, I had a sudden flash recently that linked you to Stephen Hunter, but that one was instantly put down by someone in a position to know.
Posted by: Dahlink | February 28, 2009 11:54 AM
So Dahlink, what is this position to know?
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | February 28, 2009 1:29 PM
Owl--I can't reveal my sources.
Posted by: Dahlink | February 28, 2009 3:04 PM
Check this out for a list of absolutely useless inventions. Some of them are for food products, to keep this on topic :-)
It shows how utterly lame our society has become.
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | February 28, 2009 3:05 PM
~╥╥☺
Posted by: Anonymous | February 28, 2009 3:06 PM
I don't think every single one of those is a bad idea, CG. (I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time typing Cosmo Girls, plural. When did you switch from singular and why?)
Posted by: Bucky | February 28, 2009 3:37 PM
They had the Slanket on the list so there is a UK version of the Snuggie.
Bucky, are you thinking of the glove dryer? That would be good to use after shoveling snow or throwing snowballs.
Posted by: PCB Rob | February 28, 2009 4:32 PM
I briefly considered ordering that "avocado keeper" ... then I thought, nah.
Posted by: Dahlink | February 28, 2009 5:13 PM
Bucky: I have no idea why Girls showed up instead of Girl. My info is saved in the computer, so you would have to ask my computer why it changed it :-)
I changed it back.
Posted by: Cosmo Girl | February 28, 2009 7:23 PM
Um-didn't you say you were a Gemini, Cosmo Girl(s)?
Posted by: Dahlink | February 28, 2009 8:08 PM
In honor of my Gemini horoscope, I hereby change my name to Cosmo
Girls!
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | December 27, 2008 12:28 PM
That's why. Jeez do I have to be the collective memory for the hive?
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Drink Your Ovaltine | February 28, 2009 8:55 PM
OK...now I remember. Sorry. (Cripes, and I wrote the horoscope. The memory is the second thing...ok, dumb old joke.)
Posted by: Bucky | February 28, 2009 9:07 PM
Jeez do I have to be the collective memory for the hive?
Getting a bit full of yourself there, Owl. :-)
Posted by: Hal Laurent, VoR | February 28, 2009 9:24 PM
Ahem.
Posted by: Dahlink | February 28, 2009 10:26 PM
Getting a bit full of yourself there,
not really, but when I have to resolve someone else's identity problems, the end of days is near.
mostly i wanted to make a borg ref
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – | March 1, 2009 8:28 AM
Dahlink: you are absolutely right! Shows how well my memory works. Ok, I will change it back!
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | March 1, 2009 10:01 AM
Dahlink and Owlie, thanks for keeping me in line!
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | March 1, 2009 10:02 AM
1. Jelly
6. weight training
10. stressed
Posted by: Carey | March 2, 2009 10:12 AM
1. Which has more calories? A jelly doughnut
2. Alfred Hitchcock used what to simulate blood in Psycho’s shower scene? corn syrup with red food dye
3. One measurement conversion that has been lost to history is “350 squirts =” 1/4 cup
4. Little Frankie Epperson was only 11 years old when he invented what? the fluffernutter
5. Mix vanilla, wintergreen and cinnamon and what flavor do you get? cinno-mint like big red gum
6. What’s a more effective weight loss technique than drinking eight glasses of water a day?
reducing caloric intake and increasing exercise
7. Cesare Cardini invented what at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico? cesar salad
8. According to the National Safety Council, this is the fourth leading cause of accidental death in the United States, after car accidents, poisoning and falls.
food-borne illness
9. In a test in 1993, this was connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) monitor and produced brain waves identical to those of adult humans.
squid
10. “Desserts” spelled backwards is “_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.” stressed
Posted by: heather | March 2, 2009 1:10 PM
corn syrup with red food dye
Why red dye?
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy II – Chimp Therapist | March 2, 2009 2:19 PM
Umm, Carey and heather -- in case you hand't noticed, EL posted the answers to Bucky's foodie quiz on D@L last Friday, a good 2-1/2 days before you posted your guesses.
The Foodie Quiz widget was up on the Sun's home page all weekend, so they probably went directly to the post through it. You have to give them credit for not cheating. :-) EL
Posted by: hmpstd | March 2, 2009 2:21 PM