Q 01/05

Legend says cook George Crum invented potato chips in 1853 in which New York resort town?

A) Lake Placid

B) Niagara Falls

C) Cooperstown

D) Saratoga Springs

Answer · why

D) Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Springs: the tale has Crum frying paper-thin slices to spite a fussy Cornelius Vanderbilt, who in fact spent that summer touring Europe.

Q 02/05

The saddle shape of a Pringles chip is known mathematically as what?

A) A truncated torus

B) A hyperbolic paraboloid

C) An oblate spheroid

D) A parabolic cylinder

Answer · why

B) A hyperbolic paraboloid

A hyperbolic paraboloid. P&G chemist Fredric Baur shaped the chip and designed its can, and when he died in 2008 his family buried some of his ashes i...

Q 03/05

Pringles' maker persuaded a London judge in 2008 that they weren't really potato crisps, winning exemption from what?

A) Import duty

B) Advertising levy

C) Packaging levy

D) Sales tax

Answer · why

D) Sales tax

Sales tax: VAT applies to potato crisps but to few other foods, so P&G stressed that Pringles are only 42% potato. The Court of Appeal reversed the ru...

Q 04/05

Doritos are said to have been born in the early 1960s at a restaurant inside which theme park?

A) Knott's Berry Farm

B) Disneyland

C) Six Flags Over Texas

D) Coney Island

Answer · why

B) Disneyland

Disneyland: the story goes that its Casa de Fritos restaurant fried leftover tortillas instead of binning them, and Frito-Lay launched the chips natio...

Q 05/05

Which cheesy snack did Fritos creator Charles Elmer Doolin invent in 1948?

A) Cheetos

B) Funyuns

C) Bugles

D) Cheez Doodles

Answer · why

A) Cheetos

Cheetos. Their Flamin' Hot spin-off came from a team at Frito-Lay's Texas headquarters in 1989, though a former janitor's claim to have invented it la...