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

The drink was developed in January 2003 and reached every US Starbucks the following year; the PSL abbreviation was trademarked in 2015.

Q 02/05

The Pumpkin Spice Latte had no pumpkin for its first twelve years. In which year was real pumpkin added?

A) 2015

B) 2017

C) 2019

D) 2021

Answer · why

A) 2015

By then Starbucks had already sold more than 200 million of them, and Forbes put the drink's revenue at around $100 million that year.

Q 03/05

A 1947 voluntary rationing campaign for which ingredient asked Americans to skip pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving?

A) Sugar

B) Butter

C) Wheat flour

D) Eggs

Answer · why

D) Eggs

The custard-style pie needs eggs, and the postwar campaign asked households to cut back on them. The modern recipe had appeared in the 1796 cookbook A...

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

It measured 20 feet across. The competitive-eating record for pumpkin pie belongs to Molly Schuyler: 50 slices in 10 minutes.