Q 01/05

Which phone operating system called version 1.5 Cupcake, starting a decade of dessert-themed names?

A) Apple iOS

B) Android

C) Symbian

D) Windows Phone

Answer · why

B) Android

Android began its sweet streak with Cupcake in April 2009, and Donut followed that September. The dessert names lasted until Android 10 dropped them i...

Q 02/05

Which classroom staple did Cambridge chemistry lecturer Ida Freund recreate in iced cakes for her students?

A) The periodic table

B) The solar system

C) The human skeleton

D) The pH colour chart

Answer · why

A) The periodic table

The periodic table became a board of iced cakes, each showing an element's name and atomic weight. Freund was the first woman to be a university chemi...

Q 03/05

The vanilla in a classic cupcake comes from the seed pods of which type of flowering plant?

A) A jasmine

B) A hibiscus

C) An orchid

D) A lily

Answer · why

C) An orchid

An orchid is the source: vanilla comes from the seed pods of an orchid from Mexico and Central America. Today the best-known crop comes from Madagasca...

Q 04/05

Which snack brand's chocolate cupcake has worn a white icing squiggle across its top since 1950?

A) Tastykake

B) Little Debbie

C) Drake's

D) Hostess

Answer · why

D) Hostess

Hostess added the squiggle, along with a creme filling, to set its cupcake apart from rival brands. First sold in 1919, it has been called the first c...

Q 05/05

In which CBS sitcom do diner waitresses Max and Caroline save up to open a cupcake business?

A) 2 Broke Girls

B) Mike & Molly

C) New Girl

D) Young & Hungry

Answer · why

A) 2 Broke Girls

2 Broke Girls ran for six seasons from 2011, with Kat Dennings as Max and Beth Behrs as Caroline, a billionaire's daughter left penniless by her fathe...