Spices Trivia: Flavor Your Knowledge!

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1.

What is the name of the spice that grows as a tall, tropical green grass with a lemony taste?

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Answer: Lemongrass
2.

What purple-flowered spice is often used in making soaps and potpourri?

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Answer: Lavender
3.

What spice grows feathery leaves and is used for pickling?

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Answer: Dill
4.

What cooking herb comes in lemon, woolly and silver varieties?

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Answer: Thyme
5.

Coriander and what other spice come from the same plant?

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Answer: Cilantro
6.

What does the Scoville Scale measure?

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Answer: The Hotness Of Chilies
7.

What spice is made from the seeds of the plant whose leaves are called cilantro?

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Answer: Coriander
8.

What spice needs 75,000 blossoms to make one pound of spice?

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Answer: Saffron
9.

What spice, also called laurel, was used for head wreaths in ancient Rome?

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Answer: Bay Leaves
10.

What are common ingredients of five-spice powder?

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Answer: Pepper, Anise, Ginger
11.

Of the following, which are distinctly Mediterranean spices?

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Answer: Spearmint, Sumac And Aleppo Pepper
12.

The bark of the cassia tree is often used to produce a lesser grade of what spice?

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Answer: Cinnamon
13.

What is the basic difference between spices and herbs?

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Answer: Herbs Are Just Leaves And Stems
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