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