Friday, January 25, 2008

Five fun facts for Friday



Test your knowledge of the color blue

Give it your best shot then scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers.

1. In Australia someone with this color hair is often called blue. What color hair is it?

2. What does blue funk mean?

3. What country do Blue Mountain coffee beans come from?

4. Who composed the classical piece Blue Danube?

5. What makes blue cheese blue?

7 comments:

Julie said...

Without peeking at the answers...
1.Silver
2.death
3.United States
4.Stravinksy...dunno...just always wanted to say it.
5.mold? Hahahaha!

**walks off feeling stoopid**

rzdesign said...

1. WHite/Gray
2. Means you got da blues, felling low, in the dumps, but happy to be alive!
3. Hawaii, have you never heard of Blue Hawaii?
4. Strauss
5. MOLD! YUM!

Schmoop said...

I got three thru five right. I know my cheese, and my mold. Cheers!!

Lisa Ryan said...

good guesses Julie! :-)

R, right, MOLD. yuk and double yuk. and the only blue Hawaii I know is the one with the little umbrella in it.

Matt-man - 3 right? nice. and you break the mold Matt.

Travis Cody said...

Blue Danube is one of my favorite waltzes. I knew that was Strauss, but I didn't get any of the other ones.

**sigh**

Just T said...

hehe I knew number 1 - red hair (but I have an advantage being an Aussie)
and number 5 - mold ewwww

rzdesign said...

Do you like Swiss Cheese?

Swiss cheese holes are caused by gassy bacteria . In order to make cheese, you need the help of bacteria. Starter cultures containing bacteria are added to milk, where they create lactic acid, essential for producing cheese. Various types of bacteria can be used to make cheese, and some cheeses require several different bacteria to give them a particular flavor.

Propionibacter shermani is one of the three types of bacteria used to make Swiss cheese, and it's responsible for the cheese's distinctive holes. Once P. shermani is added to the cheese mixture and warmed, bubbles of carbon dioxide form. These bubbles become holes in the final product. Cheesemakers can control the size of the holes by changing the acidity, temperature, and curing time of the mixture. Incidentally, those holes are technically called "eyes," and the proper Swiss name for the cheese is Emmentaler (also spelled Emmental or Emmenthaler).

That is right! Farting bacteria makes the holes in Swiss Cheese!