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