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Answers to the Ice Cream Trivia Contest

Posted by Alaina Browne, March 22, 2007

Thanks again to everyone who participated in yesterday's Ice Cream Trivia Contest. Congratulations to our ten winners, enjoy your ice cream! And as promised, the answers to the trivia questions:

1. How many lbs of milk does it take to make one gallon of ice cream? 12

2. In what year did the first ice cream parlor in America open? 1776, believe it or not!

3. Who invented the first hand-crank ice cream maker? Nancy Johnson

4. How many licks (on average) does it take to eat a single scoop of ice cream? 50

5. Which world leader worked as a research chemist and helped develop methods for preserving ice cream? Margaret Thatcher

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