Q 01/05

In what year did Starbucks first sell the Pumpkin Spice Latte?

A) 1996

B) 2003

C) 2008

D) 2012

Answer · why

B) 2003

Starbucks launched the Pumpkin Spice Latte in autumn 2003, after developing it that January; it reached every US store the following year and became t...

Q 02/05

In which year did Starbucks add real pumpkin to the Pumpkin Spice Latte?

A) 2015

B) 2017

C) 2019

D) 2021

Answer · why

A) 2015

Starbucks reformulated the drink with real pumpkin purée in 2015, by which time it had sold more than 200 million Pumpkin Spice Lattes.

Q 03/05

Which 1796 cookbook, the first written by an American, printed early pumpkin pie recipes?

A) American Cookery

B) The Virginia House-Wife

C) The Frugal Housewife

D) The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Answer · why

A) American Cookery

Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, printed in Hartford in 1796, was the first cookbook by an American and included two 'pompkin' pudding recipes baked ...

Q 04/05

Libby's, the best-selling canned pumpkin brand, uses only which variety of squash?

A) Connecticut Field

B) Dickinson

C) Cinderella

D) Jarrahdale

Answer · why

B) Dickinson

Dickinson is a tan, oblong Cucurbita moschata that looks nothing like a Halloween pumpkin. Fresh pie bakers usually reach for small sugar pumpkins ins...

Q 05/05

Roughly how much did the world's largest pumpkin pie, baked at Ohio's New Bremen Pumpkinfest in 2010, weigh?

A) 1,299 lb

B) 2,020 lb

C) 3,699 lb

D) 5,410 lb

Answer · why

C) 3,699 lb

The New Bremen pie of September 2010 weighed 3,699 pounds and measured 20 feet across, earning the Guinness record for the world's largest pumpkin pie...