Domesticity

General trivia

What's a pineapple over a doorway symbolize?
Homemaker history trivia: In pioneer days, one type of construction material used in the building of houses was extremely valuable and rare. What was it, and how did pioneers remove it from old dwellings when they moved on across the country?

Cooking, etc.

How many Betty Crockers have there been? When did she first appear as a name, and as a portrait?
What revolution in cooking did Fannie Farmer propound?
Who is the Frugal Gourmet?
What are the three main types of vinegar? What percentage acidity are they? (Just to be evil -- the chem major strikes!)
white vinegar --
cider vinegar --
malt vinegar --
wine vinegar --
What is stock? How is it made?
Old, flavorful vegetables, meat bones, fowl carcasses, etc. start in cold water, are cooked for a long time to leach out all the flavor into the water
What happens when you add cornstarch to boiling liquid?
What's caramel?
What's the percentage of unsweetened chocolate in semisweet chocolate?
If you need unsweetened chocolate, but have carob powder instead, all is not lost. What do you do to get the equivalent of 1 oz unsweetened chocolate?
What is the base of Worcestershire sauce?
What makes a legume a legume?
What are the ingredients of Yorkshire Pudding?
What's in haggis?
How do you make grog?
Distinguish between the following preparations
A la King --
Kiev --
Cordon Bleu --
Florentine --
What should the internal temperatures be for the following at rare, medium and well done, or simply cooked (where appropriate)
Beef
Lamb
Pork
Turkey
How do you tell that the following are done?
Chicken --
Pork --
Shrimp --
Onions --
Cake --
Which of the following cannot be frozen well?
What is the difference between parboiling and steeping?
How do you tell if an egg is stale without cracking it?
Distinguish between the following:
Custard --
Blancmange-
Pudding-
Mousse-
How do you fix it if there's too much salt in the broth?
Is it quicker to bake 7 potatoes in the microwave or the oven?
What are the 5 colors of pasta, and what gives them their color?
cream
lt. brown
yellow
green
red
How much juice do you get from a lemon?
(read this as an equivalence question)
Give the present Joy Of Cooking symbols for:
Frozen Foods
Pressure Cooking
Blender
Altitude Cooking
How is lard made, and what else results from the process?
When was Crisco introduced?
How much cooked food results from 1 cup of raw:
Rice --
Macaroni --
Noodles --
What is 1/3 of a cup in terms of teaspoons?

Ed. note: We originally had a Breakfast Cereals hour bonus that got nixed in favor of another, because the best of the BC could be fit into this Super Bonus. You see, if you don't feel like cooking breakfast, you eat cereal -- therefore, it fits under Cooking in Domesticity. So here goes:

What is the primary Grain in each of the following cereals?
Alpha-Bits
Raisin Bran
Honeycomb
Fruity Pebbles
Cookie Crisp
Batman
Trix
Breakfast Bears
How many essential vitamins and minerals does each of the following cereals claim to provide?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cocoa Puffs
Frosted Flakes
Lucky Charms
Apple Jacks
In what areas does Total not provide 100% of the USRDA?
Name the six types of single-type Chex
Give the slogan/jingle associated with each of the following:
Honeycomb
Lucky Charms
Trix
Cocoa Puffs
Apple Jacks
Froot Loops
Kellogg's Raisin Bran
Frosted Mini-Wheats
Life
Honey Nut Cheerios

Child Care, Babies, etc.

According to folklore...

If a pregnant woman craves sweets, what sex child will she have?
What does heartburn during pregnancy signify?
What happens if you tickle a baby's feet? How do you fix it?
Why would you rub a baby's tongue with a slice of apple just after the infant is born?

Back to reality...
How many Beechnut Stages are there?
TRUE OR FALSE: A good first aid procedure for burns is to put butter on them. Justify your answer.
Your toddlers have just cut themselves. List the three proper procedures, in the order they should be attempted, to control the bleeding.(and, no, "Put a Band-Aid on it" is not what we're looking for)
What is the average interval between feedings for a breast-fed infant in its first two weeks?
Which teeth usually come in first in a child's mouth?

Sewing, etc.

Draw the standardized pattern symbols for the following:
Grain line
Place on fold
notches
cutting line
seam line
right side of fabric
wrong side of fabric
List the information found on the back of a pattern envelope
What type of fiber is each of the following?
Antron III
Arnel
Cantrece
Chromspun
Courtaulds
Creslan
Enka
Estron
Fortrel
Trevira
Zefkrome
What's the likely problem if the sewing machine needle breaks, and you haven't sewn over a pin?
What if the seam draws up or the machine skips stitches?
What type of thread is most common for sewing?
What's the difference in crocheting and knitting equipment?
Knitting uses two needles
What does a serger do?
What does a yarn count of #10 mean?
Describe how to thread a standard sewing machine.

Turn in the following with the Super Bonus:

Cleaning, etc.

What is the active ingredient in each of the following?

Vinegar
Bleach
Ammonia
Mothballs
Lemon Pledge
Combat roach traps
Why should you not mix ammonia and bleach?
Without using detergents or special stain removers, how do you get blood out of white cotton? What if the first step doesn't work?
Hydrogen peroxide
Lemon juice-sunlight, wash
How do you get a spaghetti stain out?
How do you get wine out of a white linen napkin?
How do you get a ballpoint-pen ink stain out?

Carpentry, Fix-It, etc.

Draw an open double mortise-and-tenon joint, a mortise-and- tenon joint, and a dovetail joint below.
What are the differences between crosscut and rip saws?
Give 2 uses for a backsaw, and 2 for a keyhole saw. Sketch them both.
How are socket chisels and tang chisels different? For what tasks are they used?
Is it easier to cut cross-grain or with the grain?
Should you plane with or against the grain?
Should you chisel with or against the grain?
How much wood is a cord?
Handyman's project: How do you make a mirror that won't fog up, so that you can shave in the shower?
How can you find a stud in a wall to drive a nail into without a "stud-finder"?
How do you drive a headless nail into a board so that the head is substantially below the surface of the wood (important for cabinetmaking)?
Name two ways of securely fastening two boards together using no glue, nails, screws or staples.

Gardening, Yard, etc.

What's the best way to keep slugs out of your garden?
How do you surround your property with a fence to keep deer or
put down some 2x4s over a ditch at the beginning of the drive. Hooved animals cannot go over it.
If you're splitting wood with a wedge and sledge and lose your wedge in the log, what are two ways to remove it?
How can you use fruit and vegetable-eating insects to protect your garden?
How can you use only your body to protect your garden from mammalian pests?

Safety, etc.

You're cooking hamburgers in a pan on the stove, when a fire starts in the pan. What easily available things can you use to put out the fire?
Your uncle has fallen asleep on the sofa while smoking. You notice it just as the first flame appears on the couch. About how long do you have to get him out of the room before the ROOM is up in flame?
What are the types of fire extinguishers, and what types of fires are they suitable for?
What are the two main types of smoke alarms; how do they work?
What's the most important thing to do when testing the grounding of an outlet with a "hot ground" tester?
How do you tell if you've turned off the power to an outlet on the second story while you're still in the basement?
What's the single biggest (and fairly common) mistake you can make in replacing a blown fuse?