Q 01/05

Despite the name, canned baked beans are usually not baked at all but cooked by which method?

A) Roasting

B) Steaming

C) Grilling

D) Smoking

Answer · why

B) Steaming

Steaming does the work: the raw beans and sauce are sealed in the can, then cooked in large pressure cookers, which also thickens the sauce.

Q 02/05

A burst tank sent a deadly wave of which Boston baked-bean sweetener through the city's North End in 1919?

A) Corn syrup

B) Cane syrup

C) Sorghum syrup

D) Molasses

Answer · why

D) Molasses

Molasses killed 21 people that day, rushing through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour. The harbor ran dark with it until summer.

Q 03/05

Which band member sat in a bathtub of Heinz baked beans for the cover of the 1967 album The Who Sell Out?

A) Roger Daltrey

B) Pete Townshend

C) Keith Moon

D) John Entwistle

Answer · why

A) Roger Daltrey

Roger Daltrey said the beans had come straight from the fridge and that the long, freezing photo shoot left him ill.

Q 04/05

The Boston Beaneaters, a 19th-century baseball club named for the city's baked beans, are now which MLB franchise?

A) Boston Red Sox

B) Los Angeles Dodgers

C) Atlanta Braves

D) San Francisco Giants

Answer · why

C) Atlanta Braves

Atlanta Braves history began in Boston, where sportswriters called the club the Beaneaters from 1883. The team later moved to Milwaukee and then south...

Q 05/05

Why did colonial New Englanders bake their beans on Saturday and leave them in the oven overnight?

A) Firewood was rationed on weekdays

B) Sunday cooking was forbidden

C) Ovens were shared between families

D) Beans were sold only Fridays

Answer · why

B) Sunday cooking was forbidden

Sunday cooking was forbidden under Sabbath rules, so beans baked on Saturday stayed hot overnight and gave families a warm meal the next day.