Nuts About Friday Trivia Answers

Section One Questions (2 Points)
1) Nut gatherers risk their lives when collecting Brazil nuts from the Amazon Forest.
Ice Skating Nuts - C. Walker
Piranha Nuts. One of the more interesting cases of convergent evolution, these nuts are fierce and have been known to strip a human in mere seconds. Natives with cameras have been known to blackmail unwary tourists. - C. Gottfried
Monkey Nuts - D. Joyce

2) Hickory nuts shell themselves. In the fall, the shells split open and the nuts fall to the ground. In the pioneer days, the bark of this tree was used to make green dye.
Beer Nuts - S. Walker

3) The delicious Cashew nut belongs to the same family as Poison Oak and Poison Ivy. The shell of this nut can irritate the skin if gloves are not used when handling them.
Doughnuts - S. Walker

4) Inside its ivory shell, the Pistachio nut is a lovely shade of green. In a good harvest, the shells split open while still on the tree and have the appearance of a laughing face. They are grown in Iran, where they are called pistehkhandan.
You know why pistachios are always colored red (or used to be when we were kids anyway)? The Arabs realized it would hide imperfections before selling them to the Westerners. - M. Chaubey

5) The name of the Walnut is derived from the Old English waelhhnutu, meaning Welshman's Nut. To the ancient Greeks and Romans, these nuts symbolized long life.

6) Hazelnuts are often used in combination with chocolate to make truffles and products like Nutella. Some people believe that a Hazelnut branch has the power to help them find things like underground water and buried treasure.
A Hazelnut divining rod once helped me find the remote control in my couch. - M. Chaubey

7) Pine Nuts come from pine trees and were once a valuable source of food for Native American tribes which occupied the southwestern United States, they are often used to make an Italian sauce called pesto.

8) The Pecan is name after the French word pacane.

9) The Acorn was an important part of the native American diet. They ground them up to prepare their daily bread and mush. During the Civil War, they were roasted and boiled to make coffee.
Pocahontas Nuts - D. Joyce

10) It takes 548 Peanuts to make a twelve-ounce jar of Peanut butter.
Cows, Land o' Lakes - S. Walker

11) The Macadamia, which is native to Australia, is often used by law enforcement to simulate crack cocaine in drug stings. When chopped, the nuts resemble the drug in color. (Super Double Bogey Question!)
At home, I get my macadamia nuts and my crack cocaine mixed up all the time! - T. Dooms
Doughnut - C. Walker
Eucalyptus? Kookaburra? Dingo? Billabong? Boomerang? Wallaby? Foster's? - M. Chaubey
Kangaroo Nut - C. Gottfried
I don't know anymore nuts! - D. Joyce

12) Though the name has the word nut in it, the Coconut, which grows on a palm tree, is not considered a nut according to the American Nut Council.

13) The Chestnut is roasted on an open fire in a popular Christmas carol.
Wow! That sounds a bit dirty! - W. Trueax

Bonus Questions (1 Point)
1) George Washington Carver was an African American scientist, botanist and inventor who discovered many uses for the peanut plant, including: shaving cream, ink, paint, shampoo, pet litter, lipstick, soap and peanut butter!
George Washington Carver... inventor, horticulturalist, botanist and generally awesome dude. - M. Chaubey
Peanut Butter inventor guy... - K. Bixler
George Washington Carver! I wrote a report about him in seventh grade! I even used peanut shells and made them into test tubes! Why?, you ask... I have no idea... - T. Walker

2) Arachibutyrophobia is a phobia of: A) getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth, B) eating hazelnuts after midnight, C) eating nuts.

3) The Almond tree is in the rose family and closely resembles a peach. Many people like to eat this kind of nut roasted or in cold cereal.
Grape Nuts? - M. Chaubey
Tulip. not that it's the right answer, but the Tulip Tree deserves a mention somewhere. - C. Gottfried

Tour-de-Trivia Double Bonus Question (3 Points)
1) Who won this year's Tour de France?
Alberto Contador of Spain
A guy with thighs of steel! - T. Dooms
That guy with the yellow jersey. - M. Chaubey
I'm gonna have to follow sports to do well in this thing, aren't I? - J. Gumm
Joe Bike-Rider - C. Gottfried
David Ortiz - D. Joyce
That Spanish guy - S. Hibbard-Swanson
Not Lance Armstong - W. Trueax

Nuts about Michelle Kwan-stion (3 Points)
1) Yes, there was a time in history when people thought Michelle Kwan was nuts! Leading up to the 2002 Olympics, Michelle Kwan abruptly left her long-time coach, A) Dick Button, B) Frank Carroll, C) Tom Walker. Without a coach, Kwan had her father stand at the boards for support while she competed at the Olympics.
Joe Paterno, and that's why she lost. - M. Chaubey
Dick Button spends too much time yaking on TV and Walker is too much of a coincidence; now if you said Johnny Walker... - C. Gottfried

2) At what age did Susan Field first become nuts about Figure Skating?
A) 10 B) 14 C) 3
I first remember watching skating during the 1992 Winter Olympics at age eight, but it wasn't until 1994 at age ten when the Nancy/Tonya incident happened and Figure Skating was thrust into the spotlight that I really got hooked. - S. Field
The true answer is "while she was being conceived, since the Winter Olympics were on TV at the time." - T. Dooms
C) 3, though I suspect it may have actually started while she was still in the womb. Also, you can't just become that nutty, it takes time and I figure it had to have happened during her developmental years. - M. Chaubey
It was probably a puberty thing, which leaves out C. The question then becomes whether Susan had an early or later puberty. I'd say an early one (because how many people become so obsessed with ice skating?), which leaves up with answer A. - C. Gottfried
A, but who really cares? - T. Walker