quiz for the week of december 10th

1. What are the brothers Clovis and Benjamin Martin credited with inventing in 1929 in support of a New Orleans transit worker's strike?

2. What is a calas?

3. Also called "red lily", this plant blooms profusely during late June in the native grasslands of the American prairie states. Red lily has an enormous range, being found in open areas from Quebec to British Columbia and southward. As land use becomes more intense and the use of herbicides increases, red lily is becoming increasingly rare. The bulbs of this plant were boiled and eaten like potatoes by Native Americans. 

4. This popular food product was introduced by General Foods in 1974. The company had been looking for a product to introduce to the market since 1956 when the research chemist William Mitchell invented a way to put carbon dioxide into a solid. BONUS: What was Mr. Mitchell actually attempting to do when he invented this process?

5. True or False: Hog Maw is the lining of a pig's stomach?

6. Recently reopened after extensive renovation work following hurricane Katrina, this New Orleans landmark in the city's Treme neighborhood serves what has been voted countless times as the nation's best fried chicken. Still owned and operated by its 91 year old founder, this southern institution covets its privacy, with no operating hours printed on the door and shuttered windows at all times. When The Times-Picayune interviewed the owner in 1999, she would only talk to the paper on the condition that they print neither the address nor the phone number of her restaurant (she didn't want the extra business).