FACTUAL RIDDLES LXII

1. What is a Scoville unit?

2. Who is The Gray Lady?

3. What are aglets and grommets?

4. Where was the Caesar salad created?

5. What was the name of Darwin's ship?

6. What blood type is the universal donor?

7. What is the true name of the Mona Lisa?

8. Who was the first American to go into space?

9. What is written on Martin Luther King's gravestone?

10. What is the main cause of power outages in the U.S.? 

Answers:

 

1. A measure of heat for the spiciness of peppers*

2. The New York Times

3. An aglet is the plastic shield that covers the end of a shoelace. A grommet is the metal ring through which the shoelace passes.

4. In Mexico

5. HMS Beagle

6. O Negative 

7. La Gioconda

8. Alan Shepherd in 1961**

9. "Free At Last"

10. Squirrels 

*Bell pepper - 0 Scoville Heat Units (SHU)

  Sriracha sauce - 2,500 SHU

  Jalapeno pepper 8,000 SHU

  Habanero pepper - 350,000 SHU

  Ghost pepper - 1,000,000 SHU

  Carolina reaper chili pepper - 2,200,000 SHU

[Note from JA: Extreme caution should be used before handling or eating hot peppers.]

**John Glenn was the third American in space (Gus Grissom was the second) and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.