Credo Reference Friday Brainteaser – Sweets for the Sweet
This week: Sweets for the Sweet
We think this is rather a sweet idea for a brainteaser. All the clues below lead to a phrase, combination or person’s
name that includes the word “sweet”. So, if the clue was “The point on a tennis racket believed by players to deliver the maximum power to the ball”, the answer would be “Sweet spot”.
The questions and answers to this week’s quiz are below. In order to see the answers, click the Show the Answer link next to the appropriate question.
1. A variety of maize with a higher proportion of sugars in the maturing kernels: usually boiled or roasted and eaten directly from the cob. Show the Answers ▼
2. A love for sugary foods. Show the Answers ▼
3.Satisfyingly brief and pertinent. Show the Answers ▼
4. The title of a film melodrama (1957) set in the world of New York journalism, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Show the Answers ▼
5. The fleshy root of the plant Ipomoea batatas, of which there are two principal types: the kind erroneously called yam and the Jersey type. Show the Answers ▼
6. Especially in Chinese cookery: cooked in a sauce that includes sugar, vinegar and soy sauce. Show the Answers ▼
7. American fiction series created by Francine Pascal about identical twins, 16-year-olds Jessica and Elizabeth
Wakefield. Show the Answers ▼
8. Title of a 1986 hit recording by Michael McDonald (the theme song from Running Scared). Show the Answers ▼
9. The name of a British scholar who persuaded the Oxford University Press to publish what became the Oxford English
Dictionary. Bernard Shaw used this man as the basis for the character of the phonetician Professor Higgins in Pygmalion. Show the Answers ▼
10. Title of 1959 play by Tennessee Williams about a once-important actress. Show the Answers ▼
