Q 01/05

Lobsters have blue blood because their blood carries oxygen using a compound built around which metal?

A) Iron

B) Zinc

C) Copper

D) Cobalt

Answer · why

C) Copper

Vertebrates use iron-rich hemoglobin instead, which is why our blood is red.

Q 02/05

The heaviest lobster ever caught, just over 20 kg per Guinness, came from the waters of which Canadian province?

A) Newfoundland

B) New Brunswick

C) Nova Scotia

D) Prince Edward Island

Answer · why

C) Nova Scotia

Lobsters keep growing throughout their lives, adding new muscle cells at every moult.

Q 03/05

A cooked lobster turns orange because heat breaks down a protein that had been masking which pigment?

A) Melanin

B) Carotene

C) Bilirubin

D) Astaxanthin

Answer · why

D) Astaxanthin

The same pigment is what farmed salmon are fed to give their flesh its pink colour.

Q 04/05

In colonial New England lobster was so abundant it was thought of as food for whom?

A) Servants and the poor

B) Ship captains

C) Parish clergymen

D) Visiting royalty

Answer · why

A) Servants and the poor

The oft-repeated claim that laws banned serving it to servants more than twice a week has no evidence behind it.

Q 05/05

The lobster roll is commonly credited to a restaurant called Perry's in which Connecticut town?

A) Mystic

B) Greenwich

C) New Haven

D) Milford

Answer · why

D) Milford

The Connecticut style is served warm with butter; the Maine version most people picture is cold with mayonnaise.