Q 01/05

Which British prime minister was outlasted in office by a lettuce on a Daily Star livestream in 2022?

A) Boris Johnson

B) Liz Truss

C) Theresa May

D) Rishi Sunak

Answer · why

B) Liz Truss

Liz Truss served 49 days, the shortest term of any British prime minister, and announced her resignation while the lettuce beside her photograph had s...

Q 02/05

Which starving marine mammals were fed 3,000 pounds of lettuce a day in Florida after their seagrass died off?

A) Dugongs

B) Sea otters

C) Dolphins

D) Manatees

Answer · why

D) Manatees

Manatees graze on seagrass, and when the beds died back in 2021 a record 1,100 or so of the animals died in Florida, many of them from starvation.

Q 03/05

Which NASA astronaut ate red lettuce grown aboard the International Space Station during his year in orbit in 2015?

A) Scott Kelly

B) Mike Massimino

C) Terry Virts

D) Reid Wiseman

Answer · why

A) Scott Kelly

Scott Kelly and two crewmates tasted the leaves plain first, then dressed them with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Q 04/05

Caesar salad, built on romaine lettuce, is credited to an Italian-born restaurateur working in 1924 in which country?

A) Italy

B) France

C) Mexico

D) Spain

Answer · why

C) Mexico

Mexico's border city of Tijuana was home to Caesar Cardini's restaurant, which drew American diners escaping Prohibition; by his daughter's account, a...

Q 05/05

In which author's 1909 tale do the Flopsy Bunnies fall asleep after feasting on overgrown lettuces?

A) Kenneth Grahame

B) A. A. Milne

C) Beatrix Potter

D) Lewis Carroll

Answer · why

C) Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter turned the nap into the plot: the gardener McGregor finds the dozing bunnies on his rubbish heap and ties them in a sack.