honey
Honey bees make honey from nectar collected from flowers. This topic is part of Insects within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 20 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
honey trivia questions
Honey is made by which insects?
Answer: Bees
Bonus fact: Honey bees make honey from nectar collected from flowers.
Why does properly stored honey resist spoilage so well?
Answer: Low water activity and high sugar concentration
Bonus fact: Honey's high sugar concentration, acidity, and low available water inhibit many microbes.
Which city is famous for a traditional bagel style that is smaller, denser, and often boiled in honey-sweetened water?
Answer: Montreal
Bonus fact: Montreal-style bagels are typically hand-rolled, boiled in sweetened water, and baked in wood-fired ovens.
What substance do honey bees store in the wax cells of a beehive?
Answer: Honey
Bonus fact: Honey bees store honey as an energy-rich food supply.
Which insects collect nectar and turn it into honey?
Answer: Bees
Bonus fact: Honey bees collect nectar and concentrate it into honey.
Which is generally more viscous at room temperature, honey or water?
Answer: Honey
Bonus fact: Honey resists flow more strongly.
Honey begins mainly as what collected from flowers?
Answer: Nectar
Bonus fact: Workers carry nectar back to the hive.
How do bees help ripen nectar into honey?
Answer: They remove water and add enzymes
Bonus fact: Fanning lowers moisture until honey is stable.
What do bees collect from flowers to make honey?
Answer: Nectar
Bonus fact: Bees also collect pollen, an important food source for the colony.
Who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "Milk and Honey"?
Answer: Jerry Herman
Bonus fact: "Milk and Honey" was Jerry Herman’s first Broadway musical as sole composer-lyricist.
"Milk and Honey" is set primarily in which country?
Answer: Israel
Bonus fact: The show follows American tourists and Israeli characters in the young state of Israel.
In which decade did "Milk and Honey" open on Broadway?
Answer: 1960s
Bonus fact: The musical opened in 1961, three years before Herman’s blockbuster "Hello, Dolly!"