Sugar & Spice [Quiz #21]

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1. In a nursery rhyme dating from the 19th century, girls are said to be made of “sugar and spice and all things nice.” Of what are boys made?

2. Which country is the world’s leading sugarcane producer, with an annual output of about one-third of the 1.5 billion-ton worldwide figure?

3. In what city and stadium has college football’s Sugar Bowl been played in every year but one since 1976? [half point each]

4. What type of sugar is the primary ingredient in corn syrup? By which alternate name (also ending in the suffix “–ose”) does the food industry often refer to this sugar? [half point each]

5. Which 18th-century English poet wrote

Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

as well as

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum,
For how could we do without sugar and rum?

6. By which one-word nicknames were the British pop stars Spice Girls—Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown, and Melanie Chisholm—known individually? [fifth of a point each]

7. Which spice is…[half point each]

a) …the most common spice derived from tree bark?
b) … used to give yellow mustard its color, and one of the ingredients in curry powder?
c) …derived from the stigma of a species of crocus, mostly grown in Iran, and typically sold for $1000 a pound?
d) …chemically related (and similar in taste) to fennel and used to flavor ouzo, Sambuca, and absinthe?

8. What object prominently features in the logo of Old Spice male grooming products?

9. Which classic science fiction novel, published in 1965 and set 20,000 years hence, revolves around a quest for a spice called melange, and who is the author? [half point each]