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Black and white cookie - Quiz
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  • 1. What are the three names for the cookie that is iced or frosted in two colors?
A) Duo cookies, bicolor cookies, and half-moon pastries
B) Chocolate-vanilla cookies, split cookies, and moon cookies
C) Striped cookies, two-tone cookies, and crescent cookies
D) Black-and-white cookies, half-and-half cookies, and half-moon cookies
  • 2. Where are black-and-white cookies commonly found in the United States?
A) The Northeastern United States and Florida
B) The Western United States and Texas
C) The Midwest and the Southern United States
D) The Pacific Northwest and California
  • 3. What type of icing is typically used on black-and-white cookies?
A) Whipped cream
B) Fondant or royal icing
C) Buttercream icing
D) Ganache
  • 4. What is the base of a black-and-white cookie?
A) Dense cake base
B) Fluffy angel cake base
C) Puff pastry base
D) Shortbread base
  • 5. Where are half-moon cookies commonly found?
A) New Jersey and Pennsylvania
B) Southern California and Nevada
C) Central New York and Boston, Massachusetts
D) Texas and Louisiana
  • 6. What is the shape of a half-moon cookie?
A) Square
B) Round
C) Slightly dome-shaped (convex)
D) Flat
  • 7. What type of base do half-moon cookies have?
A) Dense cake base
B) Shortbread base
C) Fluffy angel cake base
D) Puff pastry base
  • 8. What is the origin of the black-and-white cookie?
A) Glaser's Bake Shop in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan
B) A German bakery in Berlin
C) A French patisserie in Paris
D) Hemstrought's Bakery in Utica, New York
  • 9. Who founded Glaser's Bake Shop?
A) The Greenberg family
B) Hemstrought and his family
C) The Amerikaner family
D) John and Justine Glaser
  • 10. In which decade did Glaser's Bake Shop start using the black-and-white cookie recipe?
A) 1980s
B) 1902
C) 1950s
D) 1925
  • 11. Which cultural group's culinary repertoire includes black-and-white cookies?
A) Italian-American
B) German
C) American Ashkenazi Jewish
D) French
  • 12. Which New York City bakery sometimes includes apricot jam in their black-and-white cookies?
A) Jewish bakeries
B) French bakeries
C) Italian-American bakeries
D) German bakeries
  • 13. Where did half-moon cookies originate?
A) Hemstrought's Bakery in Utica, New York
B) A bakery in Boston
C) Glaser's Bake Shop in Manhattan
D) A bakery in Florida
  • 14. What is a unique characteristic of half-moon cookies in Boston?
A) They are frosted with only vanilla
B) They are always frosted on both sides
C) They are never frosted
D) The domed side is sometimes frosted rather than the flat side
  • 15. What is the Amerikaner often decorated like?
A) A chocolate chip cookie
B) The black-and-white cookie
C) The half-moon cookie
D) A plain vanilla cookie
  • 16. What is one theory about the origin of the Amerikaner's name?
A) A reference to American apple pie
B) A tribute to American soldiers
C) A corruption of the word Ammoniumhydrogencarbonat (ammonium bicarbonate)
D) A nod to American jazz music
  • 17. What name was used for Amerikaner in the former East Germany?
A) American cookies
B) Ammonplätzchen (Ammonia cookies)
C) Unity cookies
D) Harmony cookies
  • 18. Which Seinfeld character used a black-and-white cookie as a metaphor for racial harmony?
A) Kramer
B) George
C) Jerry
D) Elaine
  • 19. During which event did Barack Obama refer to black-and-white cookies as a 'unity cookie'?
A) The 2008 United States presidential election
B) A 2015 op-ed
C) A 1994 dinner party
D) A Seinfeld episode
  • 20. Who argued in a 2015 op-ed that the black-and-white cookie represents racial segregation?
A) Barack Obama
B) John Glaser
C) African-American Rabbi Shais Rishon
D) Stephen Schmidt
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