Q 01/05

Eating a few poppy seed muffins has made innocent people fail which kind of workplace screening?

A) A drug test

B) A breath check

C) A lie detector

D) A hearing exam

Answer · why

A) A drug test

A drug test can come back positive after a couple of poppy seed muffins, because the seeds carry traces of opium alkaloids such as morphine. The amoun...

Q 02/05

Which 1990s sitcom had Elaine inspire a bakery that sold only the crisp tops of muffins?

A) Friends

B) Frasier

C) Seinfeld

D) Mad About You

Answer · why

C) Seinfeld

Seinfeld built a 1997 episode around the idea, and the leftover muffin stumps proved so hard to give away that Newman was hired to eat them. The write...

Q 03/05

London's muffin men announced themselves with which noisy tool, which an 1839 Act of Parliament tried to silence?

A) A whistle

B) A handbell

C) A rattle

D) A hand drum

Answer · why

B) A handbell

A handbell rang out wherever the muffin man walked, and the sellers simply ignored the ban. To Victorian children the sound was as welcome as an ice c...

Q 04/05

Which US state adopted the blueberry muffin as its official state muffin after a campaign by elementary schoolchildren?

A) Maine

B) Minnesota

C) New Jersey

D) Oregon

Answer · why

B) Minnesota

Minnesota adopted it in 1988 after pupils in the town of Carlton, studying how laws are made in civics class, proposed one of their own. Wild blueberr...

Q 05/05

In Laura Numeroff's 1991 follow-up to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which animal is handed a muffin?

A) A moose

B) A pig

C) A cat

D) A squirrel

Answer · why

A) A moose

A moose gets the muffin in the second book of the series, drawn like the first by Felicia Bond. Later titles hand a pancake to a pig and a cupcake to ...