Take the It's Academic Weekly Quiz! 
- Each year, Americans eat about 17 billion quarts of what?
- Popcorn. That’s enough to fill the Empire State Building 18 times.
- What modern vegetable was first grown in Afghanistan in the 7th century?
- Carrots. Those carrots were yellow on the inside, and purple on the outside. The orange carrot we know today was developed in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
- What major food company was founded by Giuseppe Uddo, a Sicilian immigrant who came to the US in 1907?
- Progresso. He started a company that canned fresh vegetables and tomato paste. But he switched to canning soup during the winter months, when fresh vegetables were unobtainable. Old family recipes were printed on the walls of the canning factory.
- According to one recent survey, 3% of Americans eat what food in the bathtub?
- Ice cream
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