Q 01/05

Makers trace the Dutch egg liqueur advocaat back to a Brazilian drink made with which fruit?

A) Papaya

B) Avocado

C) Pineapple

D) Coconut

Answer · why

B) Avocado

Avocado was the base of abacate, the Brazilian drink that makers say Dutch colonists copied. Back in Europe the fruit would not grow, so egg yolk took...

Q 02/05

Which future Confederate leader joined the 1826 Eggnog Riot as a cadet yet escaped court-martial?

A) Jefferson Davis

B) Robert E. Lee

C) Stonewall Jackson

D) Alexander Stephens

Answer · why

A) Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis was put under house arrest with 21 other cadets after the drunken Christmas party, but he was never tried. Twenty cadets and one enlis...

Q 03/05

Which bacterium did Rockefeller University scientists find dead after three weeks in boozy eggnog?

A) Listeria

B) E. coli

C) Salmonella

D) Campylobacter

Answer · why

C) Salmonella

Salmonella, the main danger in raw eggs, was still at risky levels after a week but had vanished by the third. Alcohol and refrigeration did the work.

Q 04/05

According to tradition, who first made rompope, Mexico's answer to eggnog, in 17th-century Puebla?

A) Jesuit priests

B) Spanish soldiers

C) Silver miners

D) Convent nuns

Answer · why

D) Convent nuns

Convent nuns at Puebla's Santa Clara are credited with the first rompope, one of many sweet recipes to come out of the city's colonial religious house...

Q 05/05

Which Founding Father recorded a 1763 recipe for milk punch, a brandy-and-lemon relative of eggnog?

A) John Adams

B) Benjamin Franklin

C) John Hancock

D) Alexander Hamilton

Answer · why

B) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's recipe added brandy and lemon to hot milk so that it curdled. Alcoholic eggnog was itself once known as milk punch or egg milk pun...